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In the Realm of the Senses Actors: Tatsuya Fuji, Eiko Matsuda Director: Nagisa Oshima Number of Items: 1 Picture Format: Pan & Scan Format: Color Audience Rating: X (Mature Audiences Only) Running Time: 105 minutes Studio: Fox Lorber Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Product Group: DVD Release Date: 2002-07-23 Buy from Amazon |
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From Amazon.com Nagisa Oshima's sensational, 1976 film concerns a woman (Eiko Matsuda) whose obsessive sexual relationship with her husband (Tatsuya Fuji) crosses the line from passion into the territory of life and death. One of the most sexually explicit films ever to play in mainstream theaters (though it did run into legal trouble both in the U.S. and Japan), it has an air of palpable doom, suggesting that sex can be a doorway to suicide. Lest this sound like grunge-era noodling over dreams of self-destruction, be assured that the Kyoto-born Oshima (Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence) takes a somewhat formal, middle-aged perspective on the conjunction of various mysteries of existence. --Tom Keogh |
 "Erotic, but not for the squeamish"The principal actors are beautiful, and the eroticism is beautiful as well, but the passionate attachment and the violence it evokes will be repugnant to some viewers.  "Terrible dubbing"I don't know if the original Japanese language version is available on DVD or not but the dubbing on the English version is simply terrible. I could hardly concentrate on the story because the voices were so monotone and simply didn't seem to fit the characters at all. Even the sex-scene sounds were dubbed,with equally disasterous results. Many might find the film shocking, but seeing as how I'd just finished watching the director's cut of Caligula my realm of senses was already pretty numbed. Worth a peek, but if you can't get the original language version you might as well turn the sound off and read the subtitles and pretend it's in japanese.  "Too rough for me"Doesn't live up to the hype. No lack of nudity, but charged with violence. Certainly not erotic by western standards. "In the Realm of the Senses"This movie is quite amazing. It shows physical desire and sexual passion taken to the edge of madness. It was banned for 20 years because of the explicitness of the screen sex. The story is a true one but its depiction on screen makes us aware of the voyeuristic nature of our participation in the observation of raw passion. The actors are all serious professionals - not porn stars - but Oshima persuaded them to perform real, not simulated , sex for this film. The tone of the film and the shocking ending could have been made morbid or depressing but it is not. The film flows to its conclusion with an inevitablity that seems quite natural.  "In the realm of the misogynist Gutter"First off-this movie isn't"sensual" at all--unless you're into female abuse/degradation--not that the male lead doesn't get his share of abuse at the movies end. Basically, a rich guy "F's" like a jack rabbit--every female he can get his slimy hands on. One rather unbalanced woman decides she wants his attention to be hers alone--but of course he doesn't comply. Both leads are unlikeable--the sex is either very "R" or barely "X"--take your pick--but it's pointless either way. The story is dull-even played at fast speed and reading the sub-titles--this movie moves too slowly to be interesting. I'm not offended by pornography--and by pornographic standards--this movie's sex isn't all that explicit--but it's also pretty darn boring-- |
