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In the Realm of the Senses (Nagisa Oshima) EuroArts Music International
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- A Film and Its Era
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Internet videos
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (52 min., 50 sec)) sound
- Distribution:
- New York, N.Y. Distributed by Infobase, 2018
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : EuroArts Music International, [2010]
- Language Note:
- Closed-captioned
- System Details:
- Streaming video file
- System requirements: FOD playback platform
- video file
- Summary:
- Nagisa Oshima directed In the Realm of the Senses in 1976. A sexually explicit film about absolute love and considered pornographic by its director, In the Realm of the Senses was regarded as an "art film" in many countries. It was shot in Japan but produced and edited in France to avoid Japanese censorship. A unique film in the history of the cinema. The story takes place in the 1930s. The film was made in 1975, in a period that witnessed sexual liberation, the rise of feminism, and the celebration of pleasure. The success of pornographic films allowed Nagisa Oshima to make a film about the sensuality suppressed by the triumph of Japanese militarism in the 1930s. The film was inspired by a real event: the love affair between Sada Abe and the innkeeper she killed in the throes of sex in 1936. Her trial made her into an icon of love in Japan. Nagisa Oshima is one of his country's greatest directors: an emblematic figure of the Japanese New Wave. In the 1970s, Japanese cinema was in crisis, and international co-production was necessary to finance films. After he stopped directing films for the cinema in 1972, Oshima made documentaries and was the host of a television series for women. It was by arrangement with the French producer Anatole Dauman that he was able to make In the Realm of the Senses
- Notes:
- Originally released by EuroArts Music International, 2010
- Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on September 24, 2018
- Title from distributor's description
- OCLC:
- 1131736268
- Publisher Number:
- 162972 Infobase
- [162957]s Infobase
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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