The movie is a fictional tale of sexually explicit adult behavior in 1930s Japan. The film was released under the title of In the Realm of the Senses in the U.S. A studio-release poster for the 1976 Japanese erotic drama In the Realm of the Senses (French: L’Empire des Sens, Japanese: Ai no Korida). AKA: O Império dos Sentidos (Brazil), Імперія почуттів (Ukraine), Империя чувств, Imperiul simţurilor (Romania), Η αυτοκρατορία των αισθήσεων (Greece), Sansenes rike (Norway), L'empire des sens (France, French Republic), In the Realm of the Senses (United States of America), Love's Bullfight, El imperio de los sentidos (Peru), L'impero dei sensi (Italy), El imperio de los sentidos (Argentina), Империя на чувствата (Bulgaria), Sinnenas rike (Sweden), 愛のコリーダ (Japan), El imperio de los sentidos (Mexico), The Realm of the Senses, Az érzékek birodalma (Hungary), Коррида любви (Russian Federation), El imperio de los sentidos (Uruguay, Eastern Republic of), Cesarstvo cutil (Slovenia), In the Realm of the Senses, In the Realm of the Senses (Canada), I sansernes vold (Denmark), Ecco l'impero dei sensi (Italy), In the Realm of the Senses (United Kingdom), Ai no korîda, Imperium zmysłów (Poland), Ai no corrida 2000 (Japan), O Império dos Sentidos (Portugal, Portuguese Republic), El imperio de los sentidos (Spain), Im Reich der Sinne, In the Realm of the Senses (Australia), Aistien valtakunta (Finland), Tutku imparatorluğu (Turkey), Empire of the Senses, Sinnenas rike (Finland), Ai no corrida (Japan), Carstvo cula (Serbia)Ī passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual relationship. Nagisa Oshimas long-awaited erotic Japanese masterpiece (initially banned from the New York Film Festival in 1976) is finally available. In the Realm of the Senses is a romantic movie which was released during 1976 in certain countries, 1977 in others.
Stars: Tatsuya Fuji, Eiko Matsuda, Aoi Nakajima, Yasuko Matsui.