What is In the Realm of the Senses?
{{italictitle}} {{Infobox movie | name = In the Realm of the Senses | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | director = [[Nagisa Oshima]] | producer = [[Anatole Dauman]] | writer = Nagisa Oshima | starring = Eiko Matsuda<br />[[Tatsuya Fuji]] | music = [[Minoru Miki]] | cinematography = Hideo Ito | editing = Keiichi Uraoka | distributor = Argos Films | released = {{Film date|df=y|1976|09|15|France|1976|10|16|Japan|1977|04|01|United States}} | runtime = 108 minutes | country = Japan<br />France | language = Japanese | budget = | gross = 1,424,906 [[Swedish krona|kr]] }} '''''In the Realm of the Senses''''' is a romantic movie which was released during [[1976]] in certain countries, [[1977]] in others. The movie is a fictional tale of sexually explicit adult behavior in [[1930s]] Japan. This motion picture caused extremely huge [[controversy]] when it was released. Certain countries wouldn't even show the movie. Moreover, it was not available for home video until around 1990. It was originally rated X, though the rating was later converted into [[NC-17]] in 1991. ==Cast== * Eiko Matsuda as [[Sada Abe]] * Tatsuya Fuji as Kichizo Ishida * Aoi Nakajima as Toku * Yasuko Matsui as Tagawa Inn manager * Meika Seri as Matsuko * Kanae Kobayashi as Old geisha Kikuryû * Taiji Tonoyama as Old beggar * Kyôji Kokonoe as Teacher Ômiya * Naomi Shiraishi as Geisha Yaeji * Komikichi Hori as Mitsuwa Geisha {{movie-stub}} [[Category:1976 romance movies]] [[Category:1970s erotic movies]] [[Category:Japanese romance movies]] [[Category:French romance movies]] [[Category:Movies directed by Nagisa Oshima]] [[Category:Obscenity]] [[Category:1970s independent movies]] [[Category:Movies based on real life events]] [[Category:Movies set in the 1930s]] [[Category:Movies set in Tokyo]]