In the Realm of the Senses [Import]

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DVD Details

  • Rated: Unrated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 45 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
  • Released: March 4, 2008
  • Originally Released: 1976
  • Label: Castaways

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Rating: 4/5 -- It was made 33 years ago but Nagisa Oshima's doomed lust classic doesn't look in the least bit dusty. Quite the opposite. Full Review
London Evening Standard
Aug 29, 2009
Rating: 5/5 -- As the soundtrack moans in sympathy while the deep crimson colours dazzle in delirium, the entire movie comes desperately close to approximating the pell-mell emotional turmoil of sex itself. Not porn, sex. Full Review
Times (UK)
Aug 29, 2009
Time and space are suspended in [director Nagisa] Oshima's beautiful images. Full Review
Los Angeles Free Press
Oct 23, 2019
Rating: 5/5 -- Unsanitised, worryingly convincing in its sadomasochistic detail, this is seriously provocative cinema, a telling reminder of what it really means to be dangerous. Full Review
Time Out
Aug 29, 2009
Rating: 5/5 -- One of the most extraordinary moments in screen history. Oshima's film widens and deepens the sensual realm. Full Review
Guardian
Aug 29, 2009
This particular consideration of mutual possession which approaches and then transcends death is well-paced and, within story possibilities, -acted as well. Full Review
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Mar 22, 2012
Rating: 2/5 -- Declaring yourself bored by a movie full of explicit sex may sometimes mark you out as a dreary pseudo-sophisticate, but in this case it's fair enough. Full Review
Times (UK)
Sep 1, 2009

Product Description:

NTSC/Region 0. Based on one of Japan's most notorious scandals, this film tells the story of an ex-prostitute who becomes involved in an obsessive love affair with the master of the household, the story between Sada and Kichi. Sada is employed as maid servant when Kichi is her master. What starts as a casual diversion escalates into a passion that holds no bounds. Banned at it's premiere at the New York Film Festival in 1976, this long-awaited erotic masterpiece has never before been available on home video until 1990.

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  • UPC: 4897007030323
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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