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In the Realm of the Senses

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In the Realm of the Senses
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NC17,1hr 45min
Genres:
Drama,Romance
Release:
1976
Director:
Nagisa Oshima
Distributor:
Surrogate
Starring:
Eiko Matsuda, Tatsuya Fuji, Aoi Nakajima  ...more
Synopsis: Based upon a true incident in 1930s Japan, Nagisa Oshima's controversial film effectively skirts the borderline between pornography and art -- making Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris of four years earlier look like children's programming in comparison. The story concerns servant and former prostitute Sada Abe (Eiko Matsuda) who becomes sexually obsessed with her employer Kizicho (Tatsuya Fuji), a businessman, after seeing him making love to his wife. After making love to Sada, Kizicho becomes ... Full Synopsis
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Jonathan Crow, AMG Review
Shocking in its graphic sexual content and riveting in its portrayal of passion run amok, Nagisa Oshima's brilliant, notorious Ai no Korrida is a cinematic landmark. No film up to that time had seriously explored the potent gray area between art and pornography; in so doing, Oshima exposed and overturned many of the conventions of both. Like vintage Luis Buñuel, Oshima skewers expectations of "proper" ... Full Review
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Eiko Matsuda
Sada
Tatsuya Fuji
Kichi-zo
Aoi Nakajima
Toku
Yasuko Matsui
Manageress of Inn
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