In the Realm of the Senses [SEP] country of origin
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- Meika Seri as Matsuko
- Kanae Kobayashi as Old geisha Kikuryū
- Taiji Tonoyama as Old beggar
- Kyôji Kokonoe as Teacher Ōmiya
- Naomi Shiraishi as Geisha Yaeji
- Komikichi Hori as Mitsuwa Geisha
Title.
The film was released under "In the Realm of the Senses" in the U.S. and the U.K., and under "L'Empire des sens" (Empire of the Senses) in France. The French title was taken from Roland Barthes's book about Japan, "L'Empire des
who is unaware of her identity, says that Sada must have loved Kichi very much since she wanted the whole country to know about them. The film ends with Sada's arrest.
Comparison with "In the Realm of the Senses".
Tanaka's version of the Sada Abe story is inevitably compared with Nagisa Oshima's internationally-known "In the Realm of the Senses". The most obvious difference between the two is that Tanaka's film, intended for a Japanese audience, could not indulge in the hardcore