Load of rubbish!!

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Whether this film is porn or not depends on your definition of that genre. It clearly depicts sexuality, nudity and penetration of various sorts. if that suffices for the film to be pornographic then In The Realm Of Senses is porn. If the genre needs exploitation, sex for the sake of sex and entertainment only then this film is not pornographic.Either way, and here is the important point, the film has an important point to make. There are people, actions and rules in our world that do not deserve respect, adherence and all these matters are subjective and subject to individual choice. Just because I believe in one thing it does not follow that someone else must live their life according to that point-of-view. All options are on the table.In The Realm Of Senses clearly tries to insult and shock as many people as possible to make a point. The point is well made and the majority of viewers (or would-be viewers) would be aghast at the work. It is the beauty of the film. As for the nudity, inn, infidelity and the geisha those are actually incidental to the story. yet, I say if you enjoy them then more power to you.

Film Review: "In The Realm Of The Senses" (1976)At the time of release at Berlin Film Festival in February and Cannes Film Festival in May 1976 respectively, the motion picture "In The Realm Of The Senses" had been split open a controversy in a emerging wave of new limits-testing cinema in the 1970s, if two actors have unsimulated sexual intercourse on-screen becomes porn; in an chamber play drama written and directed by Nagisa Ôshima (1932–2013) concerning the characters of Ishida & Abe finding to each other in a remote countryside hotel to sessions of endless sex under a deeply sunken emotion to escape the outside world of mobilizing pre-world-war-2 Japan.Director Nagisa Ôshima denies the picture any visual layers of filtering the on-screen actions, so that the sex scenes present themselves honest with no stylization concerning high contrast lighting or shifting camera movements. Actress Eiko Matsuda and actor Tatsuyo Fuji are in such a prepared state of method acting that the full frontal camera angles became a mirror for them to embrace themselves as complete entity of a cinematic piece of art, which may deny the audience any releasing moments in 100 minutes toward an absolute ending.Nevertheless any spectator, who brings time and patience to watch the film in one, will agree that "In The Realm Of The Senses" has been the first motion picture to expose sexuality as a natural drug, which lets human being escape from reality to feel whole again as in mother's womb of 360 degree-surrounding closed-up spaces for the time being, exceeding the use of synthetic drugs or alcohol due to a physical merger of two bodies, yet not less dangerous in unbalanced dosage.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to a sexual obsession which then came to a violent end.This film is easy to dismiss as "glorified porn" or something of that nature. Indeed, it tends to go beyond what we call soft-core... there is no hiding the male anatomy and some acts are rather explicit. And yet, I never really felt like the film was "dirty" or gratuitous.There is something to be said about love, sex, obsession and the life of a geisha. Certainly in western society we find it hard to believe a prostitute or porn star could have a meaningful relationship or be in love. What of the Japanese, who view prostitution somewhat differently? This is an interesting exploration.

Of late I've became a big fan of Asian and Japanese erotic films especially since I admire and find oriental females attractive. Anyway this hard core very erotic and push the limits sex passion film from 1976 "In the Realm of the Senses" did indeed entertain. It's a visual delight a pleasure to view as the passion and sex scenes push the limit they are clearly hard core and over the top as the film has never been viewed in it's native of Japan. It's really a film of sex and more sex as director Nagisa Oshima wanted to show that sex can be an obsession and become a passion that's dangerous and brutal passing love even leading to death! Anyway the film still does have somewhat of a story and plot it's set in the 1930's around the time of ever on going imperialism and governmental control, it revolves around a house of Japanese servants all ladies for a man and soon he falls in love with one of his new girls as the love is all consuming but destructive as both this man and woman(Tatsuya Fuji and Eiko Matsuda)with be split up and carved up! Based on a true story this film to me is real pornography that's graphic it makes a real visual statement this is one erotic gem that pushed sex and passion to the visual limits!