![]() ![]() I can still remember the shock of seeing it perhaps twenty years ago: not just at the explicitness of the images, in every sense, but at the extraordinary passion and honesty of the two central performances, and Oshima’s direction.ĭespite the violent nature of the film, and the fact that it is based on a true event, I cannot think of another film that so truly captures the intensity of any emotional and sexual relationship at some point in its incarnation. It is in a class of its own: beautiful, tender, sensual, erotic, horrifying. There is nothing in cinema that I can think of that compares to In The Realm Of The Senses. Their desire becomes a sexual obsession so strong that to intensify their ardor, they forsake all, even life itself. 18 | 1h 49min | Biography, Drama, Horror | February 1976 (West Germany)īased on a true story set in pre-war Japan, a man and one of his servants begin a torrid affair.
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