Still banned in its native Japan in its uncut form, “In the Realm of the Senses” is being released in both Blu-ray and standard-definition DVDs this week by the Criterion Collection, along with its 1978 companion piece (and partial contradiction), “Empire of Passion” (available only on standard DVD). The end point, perhaps, was reached by Nagisa Oshima’s 1976 film, “In the Realm of the Senses,” a handsomely designed period piece that featured both hard-core sex and graphic violence, observed with an imperturbable objectivity. THE art houses of the 1970s were filled with images of sexual transgression, gradually increasing in intensity: Bernardo Bertolucci’s “Last Tango in Paris” (1972), Dusan Makavejev’s “Sweet Movie” (1974), Pier Paolo Pasolini’s “Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom” (1975).
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