A Japanese film you must watch: In The Realm Of The Senses

Film review by Matt S.

Japanese cinema has had a long tradition of embracing transgression. From the modern auteurs such as Sono Sion and Miike Takashi, through to the great master of the form, Fukasaku Kinji, Japanese filmmaking and transgression have been so closely linked that the people have even given the loose collection of filmmakers and their work a genre. Japanese New Wave cinema was a major art movement from the 1950s to the 1970s, and it's most notable because it made embracing taboo material central to its themes. Oshima Nagisa was perhaps not as well known in the mainstream as Fukasaku, but he was every bit as important to Japanese New Wave, and In The Realm Of The Senses is his masterpiece.

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