FILM: Sansenes Rike – 35mm

A film about obsessive love where the desire for love and death is one and the same.

Censored in its own country, In the realm of senses remains one of the most controversial movies ever made. Based on real events that took place in 1930 ́Japan. The story centers around servant and former prostitute Sada Abe who becomes obsessed with her employer Kizicho. As their relationship becomes more and more intens, they find themselvs unable to separate themselvs from eachother, until every waking hour is spent in more and more dangerous sexual acts.

Nagisa Oshima
Japan
1976
35 mm
104 minutter
English subtitles