In the Realm of the Senses

Synopsis

Based on the scandalous 1936 true story of Sada Abe, a former geisha and her married hotelier master withdraw from militarizing pre-war Japanese society into a cloistered, all-consuming realm of erotic obsession and asphyxiation games that pushes their mutual ecstasy to its ultimate, fatal physical boundary. Nagisa Oshima's revolutionary, internationally controversial exploration of passion as ultimate resistance to fascism starring Eiko Matsuda and Tatsuya Fuji.