In the Realm of the Senses

About In the Realm of the Senses

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.

Nagisa Ōshima's In the Realm of the Senses is a 1976 romance film. It runs 102 minutes and was released in September 1976.

The film is filed under prostitution, eroticism, brothel, and sex. The film began as real events.

Eiko Matsuda appears as Sada Abe, Tatsuya Fuji as Kichizo Ishida, Aoi Nakajima as Toku, and Yasuko Matsui as Tagawa Inn Manager. The screenplay is by Nagisa Ōshima. In the United States it streams on Criterion Channel.

Memoirs of a Geisha, The Flowers of War, and The Handmaiden make useful companions to In the Realm of the Senses, all filed under 1930s and geisha. TMDB voters put it at 6.6 out of 10 across 760 votes and it carries a NR rating.