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Directed by Nagisa Ōshima | 105 minutes | R 18+ | 50th Anniversary |
10:15pm Friday, 15 May | Balam Balam Place - Cinema 4 | Buy Tickets | Buy Passes
Celebrating its 50th anniversary, Oshima's true story of phallic mutilation will make you believe a woman can lay an egg!
50 years on, In the Realm of the Senses< remains one of the most controversial films of all time. Based on a true incident and helmed by Japanese provocateur Nagisa Oshima, it graphically depicts the all-consuming, transcendent—but ultimately destructive—love of a man and a woman (Tatsuya Fuji and Eiko Matsuda) living in an era of ever escalating imperialism and governmental control.
Less a work of pornography than of politics, In the Realm of the Senses is a brave, taboo-breaking milestone, still censored in its own country after so many years.
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"In the Realm of the Senses is still startlingly confrontational, the unambiguously unsimulated sex scenes staged with an acute awareness of their participants' inner psychology in a way that conventional porn doesn't just omit but actively shuns." - Michael Brooke, Sight & Sound
"Craziness.... super erotic" - Lila Avilés, Criterion Closet
CONTENT WARNING: Unsimulated sex, sexual violence
Country: Japan
Year: 1976
Language: Japanese