DVD
In the realm of the senses = Ai no corrida
Call Number
- DVD FOREIGN (CEN)
Languages
In Japanese, with English subtitles.
Performers
Eiko Matsuda, Tatsuya Fuji.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2017]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (102 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (36 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
Audience
MPAA rating: X (original 1976 rating), NC-17 (re-rated in 1991).
Uniform Title
Summary
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.
Notes
Title from container.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1976.
Special features: New, restored high-definition digital transfer of the complete, uncensored version ; new audio commentary featuring film critic Tony Rayns ; new interview with actor Tatsuya Fuji ; a 1976 interview with director Nagisa Oshima and actors Fuji and Eiko Matsuda, and a 2003 program featuring interviews with consulting producer Hayao Shibata, line producer Koji Wakamatsu, assistant director Yoichi Sai, and film distributor Yoko Asakura ; deleted footage and U.S. trailer.