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In The Realm of The Senses - Double Play (Blu-ray + DVD) [1976]

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Tatsuya Fuji (Actor), Eiko Matsuda (Actor), Nagisa Ôshima (Director) Rated: Suitable for 18 years and over Format: Blu-ray
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  • Actors: Tatsuya Fuji, Eiko Matsuda, Aoi Nakajima
  • Directors: Nagisa Ôshima
  • Format: Import, Blu-ray, Subtitled, Widescreen
  • Language: Japanese
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region B/2 (Read more about DVD/Blu-ray formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.66:1
  • Number of discs: 2
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Studiocanal
  • DVD Release Date: 17 Oct. 2011
  • Run Time: 101 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00525QGC4
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 48,918 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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Presented for the first time completely uncut in the UK, world renowned director Nagisa Ôshima’s In The Realm Of The Senses is one of the most controversial films ever made. When it was first released in 1976, the film was banned in the US, given a limited release in the U.K. and is still censored in Japan. Unlike any film you have ever experienced, In The Realm Of The Senses is a masterpiece notorious for its graphic sexual content, scandalous subject matter and its unforgettable climax.

Based on one of the most shocking true stories to hit Japan, In The Realm Of The Senses tells the story of Sade Abe, a former prostitute working as a hotel maid in Tokyo in 1936. When Sade begins a torrid affair with the owner, they become completely infatuated with each other. Their increasingly experimental sexual encounters spiral into an all-consuming, obsessive and destructive love affair where even life is worth sacrificing.

EXTRAS:

  • Once Upon A Time In The Realm Of Senses            
  • Recalling The Film: 2003 program featuring interviews with consulting producer Hayao Shibata, line producer Koji Wakamatsu, assistant Director Yoichi Sai and distributor Yoko Asakura.                
  • Sex In Japanese Cinema: Critical discussion filmed at Birbeck College by kind permission of the Centre of Media, Culture and Creative Practice.
  • Deleted Scenes  

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5.0 out of 5 starsA film is good when you can't stop thinking about it...
By Thorkell Agust Ottarsson on 11 May 2012
Format: Blu-ray Verified Purchase
And when you buy more films from the director to see other films he has done. In the Realm of Senses is one of those. Does it have pornographic images? Yes! It goes so far in showing sexual intercourse that many of the scenes could be taken out of a porn film, BUT and this is a huge but. These scenes are very very important and the film would not have worked without them. Here is a film where explicit sexual scenes are not an excuse to but necessity. Also, sex has probably never been filmed in such a beautiful way.

The whole film is in fact a fascinating love story. It is based on a true story about what any normal person would call insanity but Nagisa Ôshima manages so well to show us their own logic that the whole thing becomes a mixture of beauty and terror.

The Blu Ray transfer is perfect, both sound and image and this is the uncensored version.

If you are easily offended then stay away, but if you like challenging and artistic films that stay with you for a long time then this should be on the top of your list.
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe essence of sexual obsessiveness
By A Customer on 21 April 2002
Format: 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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5.0 out of 5 starsExtremely good
By R. J. Lister on 6 Feb. 2011
Format: DVD
Nagisa "Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence" Oshima's most notorious film culminates with a truly shocking ending, encapsulating the sheer force of self-destructive passion between Kichi (Tatsuya Fuji) and Sada (Eiko Matsuda). It's an apt, inevitable climax.

The film sees a master, Kichi, take a servant, Sada, as his concubine. The balance of power quickly shifts, however, as Kichi struggles to come to terms with Sada's insatiable, and increasingly dangerous, sensual appetite. Together they push away a prudish world that would label them perverts; with the help of a carefully inserted boiled egg, they even mock the institution of procreation.

Though notions of class are touched upon (Sada, drawn from prostitution and servitude, refers to her desire to be "respectable" when with Kichi as well as a particularly paternal client), really this is a film about sex and death. You certainly can't fault it for scope of ambition, and yet its narrow - nay blinkered - focus on its deliriously conflicted protagonists is perhaps its greatest strength. After the opening scenes, Kichi and Sada dominate every last coital frame.

I've found the film becomes sadder, more poignant, with repeated viewings. The addiction is palpable, the self-annihilation agonising - not only in the characters' actions but in their changing faces: the terrible anxiety that what they share is transient; the haunting knowledge that death at the zenith is preferable to a slow decline.

I'll paddle into the art versus porn debate by saying that those looking for titillation from this film will probably find it - but they will also find a heartfelt, insightful and ultimately devastating portrait of extreme human desire.
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5.0 out of 5 starsMasterwork in sexuality
By Shivari VINE VOICE on 22 Nov. 2003
Format: DVD Verified Purchase
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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5.0 out of 5 starsBeautiful and tragic...
By blamblamsam on 14 Jun. 2007
Format: DVD
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. But, well I mean we are all mostly no strangers to the sexual act. So after you get over the initial embarrassment, the film is very deeply touching.

The actors are extremely convincing, even taking into account the poker-faced, non-expression that the japanese seem to practise. You see them spiralling down, further and further into the danger of addiction, of it never being enough, always needing more, a heftier kick. A gigantic itch that gets worse the more you scratch. It is so terribly sad because you know they will destroy each other with their love and desire and there's nothing you, or they can do to stop it.
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5.0 out of 5 starsDIFFERENT AESTHETICS
By Amazon Customer on 14 Mar. 2007
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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 treated in the film and conveyed with such good taste and elegance that one is left speechless at the end of the film. It is a pure visual spectacle with a great soundtrack and a good simple storyline. A film that I watch at least once a year.
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1.0 out of 5 starsRubbish!

This is soft-porn masquerading as art. Execrable.

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2.0 out of 5 starsBRITISH VERSION CUT TO PIECES!

Don't waste your money on this British version, it's been cut to pieces loosing the plot!

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Finally got round to seeing this Japanese classic erotic movie. Actually the drama was really good as the sex is only a small part of the drama.

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Excellent HD transfer and very good picture quality. As to the explicit contents, it is as expected from the decades of comments and discussions about it. Read more

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5.0 out of 5 starsDelivered quickly in good packaging.

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