Yesterday, I just watch the "In the Realm of the Sense (1976)". This movie, some said is hard-code pronography movie and others said this movie already beyond the hard-code pronography boundary and became an "Art" (At least the main actor,Tatsuya Fuji , think so

) This movie is actually Japanese-France movie. I think if Malaysia want to show this movie if their cut those scene with nudity, I don't know the remaining scene got 30 mins length or not. I think 75% (if not less) of this movie got nudity scene.
The PQ for this movie has been restored very well, I think. If not mistaken, the original film is black and white colour and their restored it to colour and remove a lot of grain (since this is 1976 film). The Blu-ray version of "In the Realm of the Senses - Criterion Collection (1976)" got 102 min of runtime. If you add-in the scene in deleted footage, I think you can get the total 108 to 109min of runtime.
This movie is based on a true story happened in 1936 (pre-war world II) where a man (i.e., Kichizo Ishida) and one of his servants (i.e., Sada Abe) begin a torrid affair. Their love each others so much so that if in normal circumstances, their will probably live forever. But both of them took this love to the extreme which eventually lead to the Sada choke Kichizo to death with the acknowledgement of Kichizo. Later on the Sada
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had cut off his penis
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In real case, Sada only sentenced for 6 years jail (if not mistaken) due to her popularity arose in this case. Because at that time, which already very near to war world II, most Japanese are willing to sacrifice their own interest for the success of Japan but in this case, Mr. Kichizo put his own interest on top of Japan's interest (He did not join the army for war) and in one scene where a troop of army walk pass him and he walk in opposite of this troop, he seem like totally disregard those armies whereas in opposite side of the street, lot of woman and children were welcomed the coming of these armies.
I have totally clueless why their put this movie as one of the movie in "Criterion Collection". Maybe the more the "Art" a person have, the less moral a person got.

Really don't know what those "Artists" are thinking about.
This post has been edited by low98944: Oct 12 2009, 10:16 AM