In the Realm of the Senses

1976 [JAPANESE]

Action / Drama / Romance

35
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 64% · 38 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 64% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.6/10 10 24827 24.8K

based on a true story passion japan pornography jealousy geisha

Plot summary

A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual relationship.

Director

Nagisa Ôshima Photo
Nagisa Ôshima

Top cast

Hiroko Fuji Photo
Hiroko Fuji as O-Tsune
Rei Minami Photo
Rei Minami as Mitsuwa Geisha
Kanae Kobayashi Photo
Kanae Kobayashi as Old geisha Kikuryû
Tatsuya Fuji Photo
Tatsuya Fuji as Kichizo Ishida
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940.34 MB
1200*720
Japanese 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 42 min
Seeds 17
939.93 MB
1204*720
Japanese 2.0
NR
Subtitles de   us   fr   it   nl   pt   es  
24 fps
1 hr 42 min
Seeds 2
1.7 GB
1792*1072
Japanese 2.0
NR
Subtitles de   us   fr   it   nl   pt   es  
24 fps
1 hr 42 min
Seeds 49

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Infofreak

Overshadowed by the pointless "art" versus "porn" debate!

'Empire Of The Senses' is one of the least seen and much debated movies of the Seventies. "Least seen" because in many countries, including the one I live in, it has been banned, or only available in censored versions for many years. This movie divides people - those that like it hail it as ART, those that don't dimiss it snobbishly as PORN. Both camps are fooling themselves! 'Empire Of The Senseless' is BOTH. Is it "serious"? Yes. Is it voyeuristic and prurient? Yes. Is it a masterpiece? Not quite. Is it worth watching? Very much so. In fact I'd say it was essential viewing for anyone interested in extreme or taboo-breaking movies. The Seventies were the decade where the boundaries of screen sex, violence and disturbing imagery were repeatedly stretched. Peckinpah's 'Straw Dogs' and 'Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia', Bertolucci's 'Last Tango In Paris', Scorsese's 'Taxi Driver', Kubrick's 'A Clockwork Orange',were all milestones, and the the art movies of Herzog, Warhol, Pasolini, and Jodorowsky battled it out with the horror and exploitation of Russ Meyer, Dario Argento, John Waters,and David Cronenberg. Add to that the unexpected crossover success of 'Deep Throat' and the very existence of shockers like 'Ilse, She Wolf Of The SS' and 'Cannibal Holocaust', and what do you get? The artificial and meaningless divisions of genres, "high art" vs "trash", new ways of thinking vs new ways of making money, it was all on the table. For one brief decade it looked like a brave new world. Then everything that was gained was lost - Spielberg and Simpson/Bruckheimer cleaned up (financially and aesthetically), and things have never been the same since. Watch 'Empire Of The Senseless' with that in mind. It may be flawed - you'll be alternatively fascinated and bored - but it is an important movie from an important period in movie history.
Reviewed by Xstal 7 / 10

No Meat and Two Veg...

There's a lass who's just moved in, and takes a shine, to your body and treats you like you're a shrine, very keen to satisfy, next to you or on she'll lie, best described as something very not benign. It's not too long before it's clear you're an obsession, physical acts start to include much more aggression, a little kinky to begin, it leads to knots of tightening, she has the right to use her knife, at her discretion. Before you know it things have gone a touch awry, and if you had the opportunity you'd cry, with tears in your eyes, nothing to thread between your fly, in a film that's quite tricky, to classify.
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