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The Realm Of The Senses [DVD] [1991]

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  • Actors: Tatsuya Fuji, Eiko Matsuda, Aoi Nakajima, Yasuko Matsui, Meika Seri
  • Directors: Nagisa Ôshima
  • Writers: Nagisa Ôshima
  • Producers: Anatole Dauman, Kôji Wakamatsu
  • Format: PAL
  • Language Japanese
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Nouveaux Pictures
  • DVD Release Date: 21 May 2001
  • Run Time: 105 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00005IB7T
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 11,001 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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In 1936, in the midst of rising Japanese militarism, a former prostitute, Sada, goes to work as a maid in a brothel. The house's handsome owner, Kichizo, soon begins to court her, and Sada eagerly returns his attentions. Their subsequent affair and constant lovemaking grow more and more intense, and their sexual obsession threatens to destroy them both. Nagisa Oshima's long-awaited erotic Japanese masterpiece (initially banned from the New York Film Festival in 1976) is finally available. Contains highly explicit content, recommended for adult audiences only.

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79 of 82 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Masterwork in sexuality, 22 Nov 2003
By Shivari (London, UK) - See all my reviews
  
Yes, this is explicit, but if you're simply after pornography, you can get more bangs for your buck elsewhere: this isn't a slideshow of silicon-enhanced babes and improbably-endowed studs. It's an exploration of sexual passion; the thrill, the joy, the overwhelming power. With pornography you're watching geysers spurt. With this film, you're swimming in the sea, happily splashing about in the waves - then before you know it, you're looking at a tsunami hurtling towards you...

By the end you amy well be torn between wanting the type of relationship portrayed and never wanting sex again! The film takes us to that deep and scarey place inside ourselves that few acknowledge and even fewer ever visit.

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34 of 35 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The essence of sexual obsessiveness, 21 April 2002
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This review is from: The Realm Of The Senses [VHS] [1976] (VHS Tape)
A remarkable story, told at a gentle pace, building through the layers of sexual obsession as the two principal characters, Kichi-zo and his lover, Sada, become embroiled in an erotic search for release from the everyday oppression of 1930's Japanese society. As the story approaches its violent and deeply sad conclusion (based on an actual murder case) they find themselves increasingly isolated from the expectations of family, lovers and peers and they both come to realise that emotional satisfaction and sexual fulfilment do not go hand in glove. The story is laced with comedy - the treatment of the attendant geisha for example and does well to create the feeling of life in a ryokan or Japanese Inn. The film gained notoriety for the explicitness of the in-your-face sex and serves perhaps as a object lesson in the differences between pornography and film-art.
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131 of 140 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Eye-poppingly explicit, 31 Mar 2002
By gigidunnit (Tokyo, Japan) - See all my reviews
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Sada and Kichi love each other. You can tell because they have sex constantly. Sex in the brothel in which Sada works, sex in the courtyard, sex on street corners, sex in front of Kichi's granny who doesn't bat an eyelid. Maybe this is the Japanese way. You have to admire Kichi's staying power, and Sada's breathless appetite for more more more, to use her expression. As they roll about like adolescents, or more like children in a sweet shop, everything else is forgotten -- Sada's other customers, Kichi's wife and children. Every waking moment (and several sleeping moments) are taken up with copulation. But eventually Sada's need to get more more more leads them to more sinister places, and once Sada decides that the ultimate high can be had by strangling Kichi while they have sex, a messy ending is not far away.

It's supposedly based on a true scandal from 1936. But at no point is there any moral finger wagging. Instead, the viewer is caught up in the relationship and actually feels for the two lovers. Yes, it really is love. And there are some remarkably tender and quite funny moments.

But this film also has something to offend (or maybe delight) everybody, from Kichi's two children running around naked to Kichi having sex with a 68-year-old Geisha while Sada watches. The sex is -- in a word -- graphic. There's no prurience on my part, you understand, if I explain that this involves several scenes of close-up fellatio, some remarkably forthright copulation... The Geisha sets and buildings are beautiful, but you won't even register them.

"This film has not been cut for UK release," says the notice on the back of the DVD, "However certain frames have been optically edited in accordance with BBFC guidelines". Not in my copy they haven't. All is in un-blurred un-pixellated full view. As you're probably aware, calling something "erotic world cinema" means you can show scenes which would never get released on a top shelf video. The 18 certificate is therefore extremely generous of the BBFC. It's hard to explain how the fellatio, for example, can possibly be passed for general purchase in shops or on an on-line store like Amazon except that this is supposed to be "art" and therefore the normal censorship is waived aside. I guess it could possibly be called "art", but the "p" word is far more appropriate. It's certainly arousing!

So this is either a warning or a guarantee of what you'll get if you buy it. Be advised.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful and tragic...
Wow, it is so sad. I couldn't stop crying. It is undoubtedly a shock at first, being not at all used to seeing sex displayed so obviously on the screen. Read more
Published on 14 Jun 2007 by blamblamsam

5.0 out of 5 stars NOT SIMPLY LEGAL PORN!!!!!
A very important piece of information that also needs to be added to these reviews, is that this story is completely true. Read more
Published on 22 Mar 2007 by Bluejam

5.0 out of 5 stars DIFFERENT AESTHETICS
The realm of the senses is a superb film that manages to show beauty in the most unexpected ways: gerontophilia, sexual obession, pornography and many more taboo subjects are... Read more
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2.0 out of 5 stars I don't understand the other reviews
I have no problems with explicit sex-scenes in a well produced art-house film, but this is clearly porn (albeit a different cultural take on the genre), and as such it's pretty... Read more
Published on 2 Mar 2006

4.0 out of 5 stars Explicit art
It was not, to be honest, one of the films in the world I have enjoyed the most. The Japanese fascination with pain is a bit odd to me. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars explicit, but beautiful
This is an example when the story is told and the statement is made entirely through a sexual experience. It's not sirprising then that the film is very explicit. Read more
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3.0 out of 5 stars Based on a true story.
This film is set in 1930's Japan. It is about obsessive sexual desire and the ending is something that you will never forget. Read more
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