Nagisa Ōshima
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That simian domesticity evokes Oshima Nagisa’s Max Mon Amour (1986), one of a number of references that will make this a cinephile’s wet dream.
Often compared with the controversial films Last Tango in Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1972) and In the Realm of the Senses (Nagisa Oshima, 1976) for its graphic depiction of sexuality, Patrice Chereau's Intimacy (2001) continues in a similar, notorious vein of provocative contemporary cinema, most notably in the perturbative films of Catherine Breillat, that seeks to demystify the conventional, often romanticized presentation of sexuality and capture the stark realism, awkwardness, and imperfection of the act of physical intimacy.
Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)
Directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson
influenced by In the Realm of the Senses (1976)
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Obviously there are scenes from the book that were never going to pass muster here, most notoriously a sex act involving a feminine hygiene product that would have been right at home in Nagisa Oshima’s 1976 arthouse scandal, “In the Realm of the Senses”; certainly there’s nothing here to compare with the much more grim and unyielding portrait of female self-debasement in Lars von Trier’s recent “Nymphomaniac.”
The very sexual scenes that make up the bulk of Romance's running time are more explicit by far than anything to come from mainstream world cinema since Japanese director Nagisa Oshima unleashed his In the Realm of the Senses on the world back in 1976.
Phantom Thread (2017)
Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
influenced by In the Realm of the Senses (1976)
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Jonny Greenwood’s velvety score turns into a panic attack in our ears as the film shifts from social horror-comedy to an erotic study cut from the same cloth as In the Realm of the Senses or David Cronenberg’s Crash.
This is a movie that begins with a singularly foul-mouthed singalong about the divine beauty of The Great Beyond — the various products have been indoctrinated to believe that the human customers are colossal deities, and that being placed in their shopping carts is a ticket to heaven — and ends with the most nauseating food-related sex scene since “In the Realm of the Senses.”
Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013)
Directed by Abdellatif Kechiche
influenced by In the Realm of the Senses (1976)
It makes “In The Realm Of The Senses” looks like a Frankie and Annette picture by comparison.
Seemingly incongruously, we also go to Japan and meet a deaf-mute high-school girl (Rinko Kikuchi) who responds to her mother's suicide with the worst case of Japanese sexual acting-out since In the Realm of the Senses.