In the Realm of the Senses
Director: Nagisa Oshima
Genre: Erotica, Pornographic movie, Romance Film, World cinema, Art film, Erotic Drama, Drama, Japanese Movies
Year: 1976
Country: France, Japan
Language: Japanese Language
Starring: Tatsuya Fuji, Kanae Kobayashi, Meika Seri, Taiji Tonoyama, Eiko Matsuda, Tony Rayns, Kyôji Kokonoe
In the Realm of the Senses (Japanese: 愛のコリーダ, Ai no Korīda, literally Bullfight (Spanish: Corrida) of Love; French: L'Empire des sens) is a 1976 Franco-Japanese romantic drama film directed by Nagisa Oshima. It is a fictionalised and sexually explicit treatment of an incident from 1930s Japan, that of Sada Abe. It generated great controversy during its release; while intended for mainstream wide release, it contains scenes of unsimulated sexual activity between the actors (Tatsuya Fuji and Eiko Matsuda, among others).
In 1936 Tokyo, Sada Abe (Eiko Matsuda) is a former prostitute who now works as a maid in a hotel. The hotel's owner, Kichizo Ishida (Tatsuya Fuji), molests her, and the two begin an intense affair that consists of sexual experiments, drinking, and various self-indulgences. Ishida leaves his wife and family to pursue his affair with Abe. Abe becomes increasingly possessive and jealous of Ishida, and Ishida more eager to please her. Their mutual obsession escalates to the point where Ishida finds he is most excited by being strangled during lovemaking, and he is killed in this fashion. Abe then severs his penis and writes, "Sada Kichi the two of us forever," in blood on
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