In the Realm of the Senses NC-17

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  • Rated: NC-17
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 42 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: April 28, 2009
  • Originally Released: 1976
  • Label: Criterion Collection

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User Ratings: 5,935
...Oshima has crafted an uncompromising portrait of obsessive sexual passion...
Total Film
Dec 1, 2000
IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES still has plenty of shock value...but there's a complexity and progression to the sex scenes that say more about this relationship than dialogue ever could. -- Grade: B+
A.V. Club
May 27, 2009
Rating: 2/5 -- Declaring yourself bored by a movie full of explicit sex may sometimes mark you out as a dreary pseudo-sophisticate, but in this case it's fair enough. Full Review
Times (UK)
Sep 1, 2009
Rating: 10/10 -- It is the great example of Artistic Porno. Full Review
Antagony & Ecstasy
Mar 1, 2015
In the Realm of the Senses remains one of the great erotic art films, and it retains 100% of its ability to shock and scandalize audiences today, every bit as it did in 1976. Full Review
Decider
Sep 24, 2018
Rating: 5/5 -- Unsanitised, worryingly convincing in its sadomasochistic detail, this is seriously provocative cinema, a telling reminder of what it really means to be dangerous. Full Review
Time Out
Aug 29, 2009
Rating: 5/5 -- One of the most extraordinary moments in screen history. Oshima's film widens and deepens the sensual realm. Full Review
Guardian
Aug 29, 2009

Product Description:

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.

Product Description:

Still censored in its own country, In the Realm of the Senses (Ai no corrida), by Japanese director Nagisa Oshima, remains one of the most controversial films of all time. A graphic portrayal of insatiable sexual desire, Oshima's film, set in 1936 and based on a true incident, depicts a man and a woman (Tatsuya Fuji and Eiko Matsuda) consumed by a transcendent, destructive love while living in an era of ever escalating imperialism and governmental control. Less a work of pornography than of politics, In the Realm of the Senses is a brave, taboo-breaking milestone.

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  • UPC: 715515045018
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