Cinema
In the Realm of the Senses
愛のコリーダ
Nagisa Oshima · 1976
Synopsis
Tokyo, 1936. Sada, a former prostitute who has become a servant at an inn, attracts, according to AlloCiné, the attention of the owner, Kichizō, a married man. They become lovers; when his wife discovers the affair, they run away together, according to Jorudan, and go from one rendezvous house to another. Criterion describes a couple who try to escape through an endless embrace the roles assigned to them by their rank and sex, and AlloCiné an erotic escalation without limit.
Context
It is a co-production with France, driven by the producer Anatole Dauman: the film exposed in Japan was sent to France to be developed and edited there, out of reach of the Japanese censors. The film was shown at Cannes in 1976, at the Directors' Fortnight. In Japan, it appeared only in an expurgated version, and its director was prosecuted over the publication of a book that reproduced the screenplay and photographs from it; he was acquitted, a decision confirmed in 1982. The story starts from the Abe Sada affair, a woman arrested in Tokyo in 1936.
Who it is for
About one hundred and five minutes, almost entirely in bedrooms, with a rawness that led the film to be expurgated in its own country.
Prizes and reception
A scandal in Japan, praised by the foreign press, it remains the film for which its director is best known outside his country.
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