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Film Still Archive/Museum of Modern Art.
Tatsuya Fuji and Eiko Matsuda in "In the Realm of the Senses"
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This notion of two against the world often recurs in the Japanese films that
have won international acclaim. Nagisa Oshima's 1976 "In the Realm of the
Senses" was banned and cheered for its explicit portrayal of a sadomasochistic
affair; the lovers found sexual pleasure in pain, even to the point of
mutilation and death.
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