Menasha Public Library (Elisha D. Smith)

In the realm of the senses, Ai no korīda, Janus Films ; Argos films ; Anatole Dauman présente ; film écrit et réalisé par [written and directed by] Nagisa Oshima ; une coproduction, Argos Films (Paris), Oceanic (Paris), Oshima Productions (Tokyo) ; directeur de production, Koji Wakamatsu

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videorecording

MPAA Rating: X (original 1976 rating), NC-17 (re-rated in 1991)

In the realm of the senses

DVD

300092872

Janus Films ; Argos films ; Anatole Dauman présente ; film écrit et réalisé par [written and directed by] Nagisa Oshima ; une coproduction, Argos Films (Paris), Oceanic (Paris), Oshima Productions (Tokyo) ; directeur de production, Koji Wakamatsu

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The Criterion Collection, 466

Ai no korīda

The story is based on the tabloid sensation of 1936, the fatal love affair of Sada Abe, a former geisha turned maid, and Kichizo Yoshida, the owner of the Tokyo ryotei (Japanese-style restaurant) at which she worked. Abandoning his wife and his business, Kichizo gives himself up to two weeks of dissipation with Sada at a nearby inn, which climaxes in sadomasochistic love games--and his strangulation and mutilation. Kichizo is tired of life, of the militarism that has everywhere suppressed Eros in favor of Thanatos, and he and Sada are escaping, protesting, testing physical and psychological limits, while resisting a social order that condemns their actions and their very being

Sada -- Old customer -- Master of the house -- First time -- "Unusual woman" -- Vision with razor -- Arrival at the inn -- Wedding ceremony -- "Acute sensitivity" -- "It knows you want it" -- Manager pays a visit -- Sada sees her patron -- "Slap me" -- Sustenance -- Child's play -- Kichi sees his wife -- Homecoming with knife -- "Choke me" -- Perverts -- Outside world -- "Strangle me" -- Approaching death -- Permission -- "Together forever" -- Color bars

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live action

Ai no korīda