The question now becomes, is this pornographic? The film includes a wide variety of sexual acts, occasionally explicit and occasionally unique in the sense I haven’t even considered ever doing that with a hard-boiled egg. In the Realm of Senses has primarily gained attention for its sexually explicit nature and rightfully so as it leads to plenty of conversation, and as I said earlier, all without the need to actually see the film. Just because something isn’t necessarily a surprise doesn’t mean it should be ruined even if it is the viewing experience of only one person you are saving. There is a rather shocking end to the story most reviewers I have read give away within the first two paragraphs, for what reason I do not know. The two become lovers and escape to a nearby geisha house where they give in to passion whenever the mood strikes them, primarily guided by Sada whose sexual appetite is so insatiable nothing will stand in the way of her desire. The description on the back of this Blu-ray edition describes this 1976 film from Japanese director Nagisa Oshima as “just as political as it is pornographic.” The film is based on a true story in which Sada Abe, a former prostitute working as a maid, falls in love with her married employer. I don’t say any of this in an effort to tell you not to see the film, but I do think the motivations of this film can be just as easily discussed without ever seeing it, which is evidenced by the 30-minute conversation I had earlier tonight, which was only cut-off due to the movie that was about to start. This is, by absolutely no means, a film for everyone and even when you think you have the audience pegged you run into additional factors that will cause raised eyebrows. 5.Anyone that highly recommends you buy Criterion’s In the Realm of Senses does not have your best interest in mind and should be instantly considered a suspect reviewer. At best it's a thinking person's XXX flick at worst it's as repetitive as a porn video with a title like 'Japanese Sluts Who Can't Get Enough, Vol. Director Nagisa Oshima manages many scenes of tender and dangerous erotica the film isn't bad by any means - never a dull moment, as they say - but neither is it the great radical work you may expect after all those years of awed reviews. The affair turns sadomasochistic as the couple push themselves towards the ultimate ecstasy.Īctually, if you approach this as a sick comedy about a guy getting way more nookie than he can handle, right up to the gut-wrenching logical conclusion, the movie plays better.
Sada, it turns out, is sexually insatiable he can never have enough erections to satisfy her. He makes immediate advances towards her, having no idea what he's getting into. Elko Matsuda is Sada, a former whore who goes to work as a geisha in the house of Tatsuya Fuji. It's based on a real, notorious incident in Japan in 1936. The first couple of instances of explicit copulation take you by surprise, but after a while the incessant rutting becomes numbing, as it's probably meant to.
What we have here, folks, is art-house hardcore porn. Banned at the New York Film Festival! Acclaimed as an erotic masterpiece! Can any movie live up to decades of this kind of hype? Well.
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