In The Realm Of The Senses Qartulad Here

For Georgian audiences, the film serves as a mirror: How much of the “realm of the senses” is allowed in your culture? What happens when desire has no name, no law, no god? The answer is both liberating and terrifying—and that is exactly Ōshima’s point.

Based on the true story of Sada Abe and Kichizo Ishida in 1930s Japan, the film follows a former prostitute and her employer as they descend into an all-consuming sexual obsession. As the outside world marches toward militarism and war, the lovers retreat into a private, claustrophobic world where the only reality is their own pleasure and, eventually, their own destruction. More Than Just "Explicit" in the realm of the senses qartulad

The film is notorious for two reasons: