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In the Realm of the Senses

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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. From TMDB

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  • Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.comBluesky · Nov 17, 2025

    Top five film genres: The Erotic Bummer (In the Realm of the Senses, Brokeback Mountain) The Ordeal (Sorcerer, Deliverance) Transcendental Horror (Hereditary, The Witch) GoodFellas-as-genre (Casino, Boogie Nights) "I think this movie is actually evil" (Under the Skin, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre)

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  • Gerdzilla @gerdzilla.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 13, 2026

    👁️👁️Mahler (1974) 🐀 Hagazussa (2017) 🥚 In the Realm of the Senses (1976) 📸 Maniac (1980) #lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday #letterboxd #filmsky

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  • Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.comBluesky · Mar 10, 2025

    My favorite film genres: 5. The Ordeal (Sorcerer, Deliverance) 4. The Erotic Bummer (In the Realm of the Senses, The Cook The Thief etc) 3. Transcendental Horror (Midsommar, The Lighthouse) 2. Horror that's like a black hole in the world (Lost Highway, The Shining) 1. Road House

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  • Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 14, 2026

    LET ME DIE A WOMAN (Doris Wishman, 1977) When I was a teenager this film was positioned alongside SALO, IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES and FACES OF DEATH as the hardest of the hardcore, and it's sort of funny that it earned that reputation because of vaginoplasty. Meanwhile, I'm watching it like "neat"

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  • Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.comBluesky · Jan 12, 2024

    Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, David Bowie's film about Japanese war crimes from the director of In the Realm of the Senses, and Let's Dance, David Bowie's album that made him (conservatively) one of the ten most famous human beings on Earth, came out within a month of each other

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  • Alex West @alexwest.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 14, 2024

    Rewatched In the Realm of the Senses last night and felt refreshed because not one single character stated the thesis of the film during its runtime to help the audience out. It’s a complicated, messy and controversial film. It is, to paraphrase screenwriter David Kajganich, rigorous filmmaking.

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  • Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.comBluesky · Nov 28, 2025

    Aguirre, the Wrath of God: a classic Ordeal, in the River Ordeal subgenre (Deliverance, Apocalypse Now). Everyone in this movie has a different wrong idea In the Realm of the Senses: It just makes other movies look cowardly.

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  • Disco Barrington 🏳️‍⚧️ Author @discobooks.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 8, 2025

    Just watched Babygirl. Really enjoyed it. Occurs to me that I also really loved Secretary, Crash, In the Realm of the Senses, Sex Lies & Videotape, Belle De Jour, Leap Year (the 2010 Mexican movie not that awful ‘Irish’ one), Shortbus and Damage (1992). Just love humans being lil freaks I guess.

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  • Jack Eason @jackeason.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 12, 2025

    Pope Leo's fifth favorite movie is In the Realm of the Senses.

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  • Corey Atad @coreyatad.comBluesky · Jan 16, 2026

    so cool that, asked what movie she'd like to see on 70mm, Mona Fastvold jumps to In the Realm of the Senses saw it once on 35mm (on my birthday!) and it looked extraordinary

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  • Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.comBluesky · May 19, 2024

    NEW EPISODE!! Film critic, podcaster, and historian @alexwest.bsky.social joins us to talk about her book “Gore-Geous: Personal Essays on Beauty and Horror” and the movies of 1976, including “Carrie,” “Taxi Driver,” and “In the Realm of the Senses.” It's a good one! buttondown.email/AVeryGoodYea...

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  • S.E.C.S. Fest @secsfest.orgBluesky · Aug 29, 2026

    Next week, we are co-presenting IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES with the @grandillusioncinema.org. Oshima used Sada Abe's true story to critique Japanese culture, where the film is still censored. September 2&3 at SIFF Film Center. grandillusioncinema.org/film/in-the-...

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  • On This Day - Scala Cinema @otdscalacinema.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 3, 2025

    On this day (3rd February) in 1986, the Scala Cinema was showing In The Realm Of The Senses and Empire Of Passion as a double bill.

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  • Grand Illusion Cinema @grandillusioncinema.orgBluesky · Aug 29, 2026

    50th anniversary 35MM screenings of Nagisa Oshima’s controversial classic, IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES, co-presented by @secsfest.org Fest! 9/2-3 at @siffnews.bsky.social Film Center! “An undeniably powerful, stylish & impressive piece of work.” Empire grandillusioncinema.org/film/in-the-...

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  • S.E.C.S. Fest @secsfest.orgBluesky · Aug 11, 2026

    Excited to be co-presenting the provocative Japanese film, IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES (1976) with @grandillusioncinema.org, on 35mm! September 2 & 3 at 7:15pm grandillusioncinema.org/film/in-the-...

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  • Chris @staggerlee42.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 1, 2026

    Not to everybody’s tastes but I thought this was a magnificent Oshima film. Far more daring than ‘In The Realm of The Senses’ and a caustic indictment of institutional murder. #FilmSky boxd.it/f1J7UJ

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  • Zak Jarvis @zakjarvis.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 27, 2025

    On my endless list of potential creative projects, I would really like to make a porn movie that has a good story and extremely hot fucking, but not a total bummer (even though I like those, In the Realm of the Senses). I'm *certain* it can be done.

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  • On This Day - Scala Cinema @otdscalacinema.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 2, 2026

    On this day (2nd January) in 1989, the Scala Cinema was showing In the Realm of the Senses aka Ai no Korīda (1976) & Empire Of Passion aka Ai no Bōrē (1978) as a Nagisa Ōshima double bill. In The Realm of the Senses was also shown on this day in 1984 but on its own.

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  • Now, with more Real® buttery flavor @jonnybutter.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 22, 2025

    I saw "In the Realm of the Senses" on a date. It was a double feature and we had gone for the other (art house) movie, which was not 2 hours of unsimulated close up sex and castration. Somehow we saw "Sensed" instead, and there was no second date

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  • mary @jayveesto.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 10, 2025

    In the Realm of the Senses directed by Nagisa Ōshima i...i knew there was gonna be a lot of sex but holy shit.

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  • Shunga Gallery @shungagallery.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 6, 2025

    In 1976, the Japanese film "In the Realm of the Senses" caused a lot of controversy because of its inclusion of unsimulated sex. You can now check out a profound treatment of the film (including explicit pics!) by clicking this link now >>> shungagallery.com/nagisa-oshim...

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  • Classic Movies Today @classicfilms.appBluesky · Sep 15, 2026

    50 years ago: In the Realm of the Senses (JP,FR) Original title: 愛のコリーダ A passionate telling of the story... 1976-09-15 #ClassicFilm #EikoMatsuda #TatsuyaFuji #AoiNakajima https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/5879

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  • Grand Illusion Cinema @grandillusioncinema.orgBluesky · Sep 3, 2026

    One more chance to see IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES in 35mm tonight! 715pm at @siffnews.bsky.social Film Center, co-presented with @secsfest.org. “An undeniably powerful, stylish & impressive piece of work.” David Parkinson, Empire *No one under 18 admitted* grandillusioncinema.org/film/in-the-...

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  • Grand Illusion Cinema @grandillusioncinema.orgBluesky · Sep 1, 2026

    “This is seriously provocative cinema, a telling reminder of what it really means to be dangerous.” Time Out Wed & Thur IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES screens in 35mm for its 50th anniversary at @siffnews.bsky.social Film Center! Co-presented by @secsfest.org! grandillusioncinema.org/film/in-the-...

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  • Moondoggie (Rick) @moondogrick.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 11, 2026

    #Edwards2026MovieThingChallenge 7/12 Freebie (any movie) In the Realm of the Senses (1976) A fictionalized account of the story of Sada Abe, a geisha who made sensational headlines in 1936 Japan when her sadomasochistic affair with her lover ended in his murder #filmsky 📽️ #moviesky

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  • Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.comBluesky · Oct 8, 2025

    (L-R) Color commentator Dr. Yuko Hattori, film director and guest judge Nagisa Ōshima (In the Realm of the Senses, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence), and play-by-play man Kenji Fukui

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  • MovieJawn @moviejawn.comBluesky · May 27, 2025

    MJ's MD Russell makes their debut with a look at the controversial Japanese film, IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES. #InTheRealmOfTheSenses is now streaming on @criterion.bsky.social.

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  • anoetic 🏳️‍⚧️ @obliqueanoetic.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 25, 2025

    In the Realm of the Senses (1976) is an exquisite film.

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  • Alex MacFarlane @aghowes.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 10, 2023

    Ten films to get to know me: The Pillow Book (1996) November (2017) The Color of Pomegranates (1969) Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001) Star Wars (1977) The Fall (2006) Enys Men (2022) In the Realm of the Senses (1976) You Won't Be Alone (2022) Gladiator (2000)

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  • S.E.C.S. Fest @secsfest.orgBluesky · Aug 31, 2026

    We are co-presenting IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES with the @grandillusioncinema.org for the film's 50th anniversary. Screens this Wednesday and Thursday at the SIFF Film Center. grandillusioncinema.org/film/in-the-...

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  • 🎃 Zack o' Lantern 🎃 @zackdavisson.comBluesky · Aug 18, 2026

    After a weekend of hot sex she killed her lover and cut off his penis. Became a celebrity murderer. Served 6 years in jail and was pardoned on the Emperor's Birthday. Tried to disappear but eventually tracked down. Her story became the film In The Realm of the Senses.

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  • Jason Bradley Thompson @mockman.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 27, 2026

    “Obsession” was good. It would make a great movie night double feature with “In the Realm of the Senses” (1976)

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  • Tenuity @tenuity.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 17, 2026

    OCD compels me to spreadsheet. Combined the greatest-films-of-all-time lists. Presenting the top 1,461 as a daily countdown to the end of the Trump Administration. #Film 📽️ #Resist #MovieSky #Movies #1,101 -- In the Realm of the Senses (1976) dir. Nagisa Oshima

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  • Plato Karamazov @platokaramazov.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 20, 2025

    Tell them that In the Realm of the Senses is a Hallmark romance movie

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  • 366 Weird Movies @366weirdmovies.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 15, 2025

    "Oshima’s infamous sexual psychodrama shocked on release and remains a classic of provocative cinema, a transgressive and bold narrative portraying sexuality as power play. While we cannot consider this movie weird, it has elements of the bizarre."--Michael Diamades on "In the Realm of the Senses"

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  • Jamie K @crumpsalljamie.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 1, 2025

    they made a film about it! In the Realm of the Senses, if you fancy an eye popping, leg crossing experience.

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  • B. @godzilla.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 24, 2025

    Friend texted me this morning to share that she watched this crazy movie last night (In the Realm of the Senses) and it gave me an opportunity to share passages from one of my favorite “directors share their thoughts” books. Always in awe at how transgressive Oshima was for his time

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  • Craig J. Clark @hoodedjustice.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 14, 2025

    FILM CRITIC: Congratulations! ‘In the Realm of the Senses’ is one of the most transgressive films ever made. NAGISA ŌSHIMA: Hold my sake.

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  • Robin Youngman @robinyoungman.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 5, 2024

    The other two masterpieces from Oshima that I've seen are VIOLENCE AT NOON and CRUEL STORY OF YOUTH, both of which made a strong impact on me. IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES is good also, being his most famous and acclaimed film, but I don't think it's on the level of his best work.

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  • The History of BDSM @historyofbdsm.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 22, 2024

    What lies In the Realm of the Senses (aka Ai no Corrida) (1976), asks the Celluloid Dungeon? #bdsm #film historyofbdsm.com/2024/08/in-t...

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  • Jerry @jerfad.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 5, 2024

    If you have Criterion Channel they are currently showing on the 24/7 thing, a movie by Obayashi (the guy who made House) that is about the same story as In the Realm of the Senses but more Housey! A great movie to watch in the living room with your children….

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  • Crit Club Podcast @critclubpodcast.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 11, 2024

    This week we watch the often-banned, taboo-breaking 1976 Nagisa Ōshima film, In the Realm of the Senses Nagisa Ōshima, which follows two lovers as they fall down the well of each other’s hedonistic appetites. open.spotify.com/episode/04mt...

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  • Ray Oday - I live where my real name would have me disappeared @rayoday.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 1, 2026

    This is almost comedic although it was unintentional (I think). The first movie my girlfriend, at the time, invited me to was "In the Realm of the Senses" (Ai no Korīda), directed by Nagisa Oshima (1976). Based on the 1936 Sada Abe incident in Tokyo.

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  • William B Hell @wbhwrites.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 6, 2026

    An upload for rant-blog purposes. Cheers to my grandparents for letting me snatch this book from their house when I was like…eleven years old. They probably didn’t know about the screen cap from In The Realm of the Senses in the foreign film chapter, or its graphic description!

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  • honkitsharris @harrisonmcr.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 23, 2026

    Just watched In the Realm of the Senses (1976) and rated it 4 stars on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/harrisonmcr/film/in-the-realm-of-the-senses/ #FilmSky 📽️ Post made with @letterboxdposter.finiteui.com

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  • formdk.bsky.social @formdk.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 18, 2025

    That reminds me of the movie In the Realm of the Senses.

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  • ♾️ UNCAИИY (they/them) VundaHalloweenathon Edition 🎃 @uncanny305.bandcamp.comBluesky · Oct 1, 2025

    "This film is pure eros in the absolute best way possible." My ★★★★★ @letterboxd.social review of IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES (1976) directed by Nagisa Ōshima #Filmsky #Moviesky 🎥🎬

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  • Bastet and Ptah :heart_bi: @bastetandptah.kinkycats.org.ap.brid.gyBluesky · Sep 17, 2025

    [NSFW, movie, porn] In the Realm of the Senses by Nagisa Oshima #nsfw #movie #porn

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  • Bastet and Ptah :heart_bi: @bastetandptah.kinkycats.org.ap.brid.gyBluesky · Sep 16, 2025

    [NSFW, movie, porn] In the Realm of the Senses by Nagisa Oshima #nsfw #movie #porn

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  • Bastet and Ptah :heart_bi: @bastetandptah.kinkycats.org.ap.brid.gyBluesky · Sep 16, 2025

    [NSFW, movie, porn] In the Realm of the Senses by Nagisa Oshima #nsfw #movie #porn

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  • Bastet and Ptah :heart_bi: @bastetandptah.kinkycats.org.ap.brid.gyBluesky · Sep 16, 2025

    [NSFW, movie, porn] In the Realm of the Senses by Nagisa Oshima #nsfw #movie #porn

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  • ꙮ @calexio.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 14, 2025

    Adore this film. If I remember correctly it was part of the same Japanese cinema course I did at uni that also included 'In the Realm of the Senses', 'Onibaba' and 'Branded to Kill'. That class ruled.

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  • Heather Jochens @heatherjochens.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 13, 2025

    Yes and there’s also one by Nobuhiko Obayashi who directed House— it’s called Sada. It’s a bit less explicit than In the Realm of the Senses but still an interesting film boxd.it/42aE

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  • Zak Jarvis @zakjarvis.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 22, 2025

    Of the many 'real films with explicit sex', there is only one worth seeing (that I've seen, please tell me there's one I missed!) Nagisa Ôshima's Ai no Korîda (In the Realm of the Senses). It's the only one* doing anything interesting as a film, or with explicit sex.

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  • Lilith K. Duat ✍️🔥📽️🔞 @lilithkduat.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 21, 2024

    You're not wrong, but it's a preference thing. I think EWS is fine, beautifully shot, but obtuse as fuck. To your Criterion point, I don't like In the Realm of the Senses & I've only ever known it to be a Criteron Collection film. Again, that's my preference. I don't like it, doesn't make it bad.

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  • Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 3, 2024

    Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983, d. Oshima) From the director of In The Realm of the Senses comes this startling WW2 movie about British POW’s, including Tom Conti and David Bowie, whose existence must be justified by their captors. 1/2

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  • Tim Ferguson @encosion.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 25, 2024

    I made this short concept EP a couple years ago. No one listens to it, but I'm proud of it: tim-ferguson.bandcamp.com/album/ai-no-... Inspired by, and sampled from, film director Nagisa Oshima's controversial 1976 "Ai No Korida" film (aka 'In the Realm of the Senses')

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  • Sam Inglis @24fpsuk.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 17, 2024

    In the Realm of the Senses That rare thing: a sexually explicit film that really does advance the characters and their relationship within, rather than just between, its explicit scenes. Still startling in its content and its beauty (with a few scenes excepted) 50 years on.

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  • 🔪🔪Jonah 🔪🔪 @chateaucat.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 2, 2024

    Using MOVIE as an acronym, recommend five films: My Own Private Idaho Oh Brother Where Art Thou Viy In the Realm of the Senses Eyes Without A Face

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  • Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.comBluesky · Apr 1, 2024

    my fucked-up movie treats of this nature would be Natural Born Killers or In the Realm of the Senses

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