Title: In the Realm of the Senses
Product review: This movie is quite amazing. It shows physical desire and sexual passion taken to the edge of madness. It was banned for 20 years because of the explicitness of the screen sex. The story is a true one but its depiction on screen makes us aware of the voyeuristic nature of our participation in the observation of raw passion. The actors are all serious professionals - not porn stars - but Oshima persuaded them to perform real, not simulated , sex for this film. The tone of the film and the shocking ending could have been made morbid or depressing but it is not. The film flows to its conclusion with an inevitablity that seems quite natural.
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