The only thing they care about is themselves. And also Sada and Kichi’s love being intruded on definitively showcases the notion they don’t care about the outside world. They are both disgusted by their sexual obsession and excited to watch them having intercourse with each other. Whether they are the geishas or the maids, they are often seen to intrude on Sada and Kichi’s sexual intercourse throughout the film. This voyeurism can be signified with the use of the minor characters.

The audience also loses track of time and space, and observes their psycho-sexual relationship as the eye of a voyeur. It seems for them the outside world never existed. He put them in close setups and created an environment where what happens outside of these setups becomes irrelevant. To capture this intimate obsession, Oshima left out minor supporting characters to focus more and more on his leading actors. For example, by inserting an egg into the vulva or having sex with a 68-year-old geisha, things get more and more grotesque with each new scene. And with each level, it captures the sexual obsession in a whole new level. You can feel this movie it starts slowly with foreplay and goes towards an ultimate orgasm in the end. It primarily focuses on the sexual experiences between the characters and how they evolve out of them. Rather it is a human story about two people and their intimate obsession.Įiko Matsuda in “In the Realm of Senses.” Photo: Argos Films. Sometimes these prolonged explicit scenes felt quite tedious but in time it becomes the subject to examine the neurosis of the characters without delivering pornographic content for cheap entertainment. But, surprisingly with this entire erotica, it never feels arousing. And, with prolonged, detailed sequences of it-and extensive use of close-ups-Oshima forces us to enter the realm of these characters’ psyche. A disturbing story, added with graphic sexual content, Oshima made it a grotesque psycho-sexual character study of these two characters.ĩ0 percent of scenes of the film have high sexual content. Focuses on the relationship between Abe and her lover Kichizo Ishida-and the subsequent murder of Ishida via erotic asphyxiation-this film is not everyone’s cup of tea. Based on the real-life incident of Sada Abe, this film is a haunting portrayal of sexuality, obsession, and catharsis.

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