Ahhh, yes... the beauty of sexual intimacy, the great variety of sensations felt during the most beautiful act of love, the very emotions of the human being reaching an extreme point of pleasure. Ai no Corrida is the most cinematically graphic representation of a fully-developed study on human eroticism, but what is often confused with either a strictly pornographic film or with a fully perverted movie is actually an essay of political ideas depicted with extreme liberalism. Audacious and poetical Japanese director Nagisa Ôshima directs his definitive masterpiece, a controversial work of art of impeccably explicit proportions that awakens the very human reactions of denial when sexual content is mercilessly displayed on the screen, a reaction that, ironically, people do…

When a film depicts sex for the mere sake of it, that's where I believe it can be deemed pornography. In the case of In the Realm of the Senses, as explicit as the sex may be, I don't at all see it as pornography - it nearly borders on that but to me, it wouldn't seem fair especially when what we have is a story being told, one especially that shocked Japan during its time. But out of everyone they got to direct it, it was a man who wanted to push beyond the limits, none other than Nagisa Oshima. It's interesting how others can read into this, but I find it extremely masterful and at that, it is…

Ovo je pokušaj čistog izraza antropološko dualističke ideje. Radi se o jazu između res extensa i res cogitans, duše i tijela, izraženom u obliku opsesije postizanjem jednake protežnosti duhovnog proživljavanja i tjelesnog zadovoljenja u praksi seksualnog čina.
Između brojnih scena koje isijavaju (poput Sade) čistim užitkom i seksualnim zadovoljenjem ipak se, u tragovima koji skupno znače mnogo više, nazire tragičnost ljudskog nastojanja i stanja. Jaz između duha i tijela beskonačan je, Sada i Michi ne postižu duhovno i tjelesno sjedinjenje, a njezino nastojanje koje nadživljava njezinog partnera u konačnici rezultira redukcijom na doslovnost (čin fizičkog rezanja penisa i testisa). Stara Sadina mušterija suočava se s impotencijom (onemogućuje ispunjenje duhovnog nastojanja), stare geishe i sluškinje vremenom udaljene od užitka, zavist prema…