The realm of the senses torrent

After making love to Sada, Kizicho becomes obsessed with her as well. As their love-making becomes more and more intense, they find themselves unable to separate themselves from each other, until every waking hour is spent in more and more dangerous sexual acts with Sada becoming more and more of the aggressor. Finally, for the ultimate in eroticism, Kizicho agrees to be strangled during sexual ecstasy for the ultimate in orgasmic fulfillment.

Description Files Comments 0 Tracker list [ In. For Oshima, film was a form of activism, a way of shaking up the status quo. Uninterested in the traditional Japanese cinema of such popular filmmakers as Kurosawa, Ozu, and Naruse, Oshima focused not on classical themes of good and evil or domesticity but on outcasts, gangsters, murderers, rapists, sexual deviants, and the politically marginalized.

He began as a studio filmmaker, and had a hit with the jazzy Cruel Story of Youth , but left Shochiku when the powers that be there pulled his politically incendiary Night and Fog in Japan from circulation. With his late-seventies international coproductions, the sexually graphic In the Realm of the Senses and the visually raw ghost story Empire of Passion , Oshima became an art-house sensation in Europe and the U. Purchase Options. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence Nagisa Oshima. The film centers around the love between two people expressed physically, graphically, into realms of the senses where few dare to tread.

And with good reason. This is a very intense film as it progresses from the attraction of two people through increasing experimentation in an effort not only to express their passion but to try to find the outer most limits of passion itself. Oshima must have had something metaphorical in mind but the journey as chronicled in the film also has retained the feel of the specifics. It's quirkey and eccentric.

The backdrop of the story is as interesting as the story itself. It is an amazing spectacle to observe, giving the viewer a perspective on Japanese life not usually rendered but often alluded to in some historical accounts. One wonders what this experience must have been like for the actors. Oshima has managed what I have always believed should be done in order to treat the subject of sex fully and without shrinking from its' less savory aspects. This is serious minded erotica and quite unlike anything else on screen.

The only other film I can recall that compares at all is "Taxi Zum Klo" which was autobiographical and starred a number of actual people playing themselves. Obviously a different catagory in that regard from what is going on here, but both films draw much of their power from explicitly sexual scenes without compromising the integrity of the story being told.

This is a film experience that should not be missed. FAQ 3. Is this film still banned in Japan? Are the actors having real sex? Details Edit. Release date April 1, United States. Japan France. Empire of Senses. Daiei-Kyoto Studios, Kyoto, Japan. Technical specs Edit.

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