In the Realm of the Senses
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- Movie: In the Realm of the Senses / L'Empire Des Sens
- Romaji: Ai no corrida
- Japanese: 愛のコリーダ
- Director: Nagisa Oshima
- Writer: Nagisa Oshima
- Producer: Anatole Dauman, Koji Wakamatsu
- Cinematographer: Hideo Itoh
- Release Date: October 1976
- Runtime: 104 min.
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
Sada Abe is an ex-prostitute who becomes involved in an obsessive love affair with the master of the household Kichizo Ishida. What starts as a casual diversion escalates into a passion that holds no bounds.
Notes
- Based on a true incident that was a national sensation in 1936. Sada Abe was a prostitute turned waitress who got into a heated love affair with her married employer Kichizo Ishida. The couple would have marathon love making sessions that would last for days. Eventually Sada choked Kichizo to death - due to her account that she could not bear the though of him with other women - and then castrated his penis. She then placed the penis in her handbag before fleeing.
- Related titles (also based on the life of Sada Abe):
- A Woman Called Sada Abe | Jitsuroku Abe Sada (1975)
- In the Realm of the Senses | Ai no corrida (1976)
- Sada (1998)
- Johnen | Johnen Sada no Ai Yori (2008)
Cast
- Tatsuya Fuji - Kichizo Ishida
- Eiko Matsuda - Sada Abe
- Aoi Nakajima - Toku
- Yasuko Matsui - Tagawa Inn Manager
- Meika Seri - Matsuko (Yoshidaya maid)
- Kanae Kobayashi - Old geisha Kikuryû
- Taiji Tonoyama - Old Beggar
- Kyoji Kokonoe - Teacher omiya
- Naomi Shiraishi - Geisha Yaeji
- Shinkichi Noda - Old Restaurant Man
- Komikichi Hori - Mitsuwa Geisha
- Kikuhei Matsunoya - Hokan jester
- Akiko Koyama - Mansaki Geisha
- Yuriko Azuma - Mitsuwa Geisha
- Rei Minami - Mitsuwa Geisha
