In the Realm of the Senses (Japanese: 愛のコリーダ, Ai no Korīda, lit. Bullfight (Spanish: Corrida) of Love; French: L'Empire des sens) is a 1976 Franco-Japanese film directed by Nagisa Oshima. It is a fictionalised and sexually explicit treatment of an incident which occurred in 1930s Japan, that of Sada Abe. It garnered great controversy during its release; while it was intended for mainstream release, it contains scenes of unsimulated sexual activit...
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In the Realm of the Senses (Japanese: 愛のコリーダ, Ai no Korīda, lit. Bullfight (Spanish: Corrida) of Love; French: L'Empire des sens) is a 1976 Franco-Japanese film directed by Nagisa Oshima. It is a fictionalised and sexually explicit treatment of an incident which occurred in 1930s Japan, that of Sada Abe. It garnered great controversy during its release; while it was intended for mainstream release, it contains scenes of unsimulated sexual activity between the actors (Tatsuya Fuji and Eiko Matsuda, among others).
The British title of the film is In the Realm of the Senses, while the U.S. version is Realm of the Senses. The French title L'Empire des sens (Empire of Senses) is derived from that of Roland Barthes' book about Japan, L'Empire des signes (Empire of Signs, 1970).
In 1936 Tokyo, Sada Abe (Matsuda) is a former prostitute who now works as a maid in a hotel. The hotel's owner, Kichizo Ishida, molests her, and the two begin an intense affair that consists of sexual experiments,...
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