{"id":4668,"date":"2009-06-18T21:04:15","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T05:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=4668"},"modified":"2009-06-19T16:51:53","modified_gmt":"2009-06-20T00:51:53","slug":"in-the-realm-of-the-senses-nagisa-oshima-1976-japan-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=4668","title":{"rendered":"In the Realm of the Senses (Nagisa Oshima, 1976): Japan \/ France"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Byron Potau<\/a>.\u00a0 Viewed on DVD.<\/p>\n

\"InWith so many films that break new ground in controversial areas, there is the question of whether the film goes too far or not.\u00a0 In the case of Nagisa Oshima\u2019s In the Realm of the Senses<\/a><\/em>, the quantity and extreme nature of the scenes do not bother me, but the lack of non sex scenes compel me to say the film has gone to the side of “too far”; however, that does not mean that certain viewers cannot get anything out of it.<\/p>\n

Based on the true story from the 1930\u2019s of Sada Abe and Kichizo Ishida, the film tells the story of Sada (Eiko Matsuda), a former prostitute who now works at a restaurant and begins a highly sexual affair with the married owner, Kichizo (Tatsuya Fuji).\u00a0 Their insatiable sexual desires lead to experimental and bizarre sexual practices including beating each other and asphyxiation during orgasm.\u00a0 As Kichizo is still married, Sada has some feelings of jealousy toward Kichizo\u2019s wife, but this does not stop either of them from encouraging each other to have sex with other people.<\/p>\n

The viewer\u2019s reaction to this film will depend greatly on the viewer\u2019s outlook on sex.\u00a0 Some may find the film erotic and passionate while others may find it repulsive and disgusting.\u00a0 Either way, the viewer should be forewarned that there are an inordinate amount of sex scenes in the film and some of the sex acts are bizarre and explicit.\u00a0 What took away from the film was the repetitive nature of many of the sex scenes.\u00a0 Several times I felt as if I had just seen the same sex scene five minutes earlier.\u00a0 The sex scenes occur so often, in what feels like every other scene, that it is numbing, and the scenes lose the feeling of passion and eroticism that they might otherwise have had.\u00a0 The actors are very good in their conveyance of passion, sexual liberty, and sexual pleasure, but they are given little chance to do anything else as, unfortunately, director Oshima did not explore these characters any further outside their sexual relationship.\u00a0 Still, the film is of interest due to its being based on a true story that was a national scandal in 1930\u2019s Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Byron Potau.\u00a0 Viewed on DVD. With so many films that break new ground in controversial areas, there is the question of whether the film goes too far or not.\u00a0 In the case of Nagisa Oshima\u2019s In the Realm of the Senses, the quantity and extreme nature of the scenes do not bother me, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dvd","category-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}