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From: reiher@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: obscure movies
Message-ID: <4064@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Sun, 24-Feb-85 15:59:33 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb 24 15:59:33 1985
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In article <319@usl.UUCP> jla@usl.UUCP (Joseph L Arceneaux) writes:
>'IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES'  (maybe not so obscure...?)
>By a Japanese director, whose name I forgot....

Nagisa Oshima.

>The (true) story of a young prostitute who falls
>in love with a young man and together search for the perfect orgasm.  Not,
>in my opinion, pornographic, though some consider it such.  I don't know
>much of the original incident, except that it occurred in the 30's and that
>the Japanese public fell in love with the woman...

Pornography is in the eye of the beholder, but it's worth mentioning that
the film is much more sexually explicit than anything produced by Hollywood
(unless you consider the hard core porn industry to be Hollywood).  It should
also be mentioned that there is an extremely disquieting and fairly explicit
act of violence in the film which has been known to offend people (I've got
my understatement cap on for that one).  The true story is apparently very
well known in Japan.  A different version was just made by Noboru Tanaka
(called "The True Story of Abe Sada") which makes Oshima's version look
tame, by all reports.  "In the Realm of the Senses" is a very fine film, but
decidedly not for the easily offended.
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        			Peter Reiher
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