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Editor's Note
In 1936, in the midst of rising Japanese militarism, a former prostitute, Sada, goes to work as a maid in a brothel. The house's handsome owner, Kichizo, soon begins to court her, and Sada eagerly returns his attentions. Their subsequent affair and constant lovemaking grow more and more intense, and their sexual obsession threatens to destroy them both. Nagisa Oshima's long-awaited erotic Japanese masterpiece (initially banned from the New York Film Festival in 1976) is finally available. Contains highly explicit content, recommended for adult audiences only.
| Features | Keep Case | | Letterbox | | Widescreen - 1.66 | | Audio:
| Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono - Japanese | | Subtitles - English | | Additional Release Material:
| Deleted Scenes: Deleted Scenes | | Audio Commentary: Tony Rayns, Film Scholar | | Trailers: U.S. Trailer | | Interviews:
| 1. Nagisa Oshima, Director - 1976 | | 2. Tatsuya Fuji, Actor | | 3. Fuji Matsuda, Actor | | 4. Eiko Matsuda, | | 5. Hayao Shibata, Consulting Producer | | 6. Koji Wakamatsu, Line Producer | | 7. Yoichi Sai, Assistant Director | | 8. Yoko Asakura, Film Distributor | | Additional Products:
| Booklet: Essay - Donald Richie, Film Scholar / Oshima Interview |
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Release Information
|  | Studio: Image |
| Release Date: 4/28/2009 |
| Running Time: 102 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1976 | | Catalog ID: 1806 | | UPC: 00715515045018 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Video: Color |
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| | Professional Reviews | Total Film
"...Oshima has crafted an uncompromising portrait of obsessive sexual passion..." 12/01/2000 p.105Film Comment
"REALM's escalating affair of sexual obsession takes place in 1936....[It] remains a genuine feat of hard-core eroticism." 05/01/2009 A.V. Club
"IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES still has plenty of shock value...but there's a complexity and progression to the sex scenes that say more about this relationship than dialogue ever could." -- Grade: B 05/27/2009 |
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