Nagisa Oshima and In the Realm of the Senses
[originally published in a slightly different form in the Oregon Daily Emerald in 1977] Nagisha Oshima’s In the Realm of the Senses (1977) was a cause célèbre even before it officially opened in the United States, thanks to a bizarre Customs Office decision to confiscate a print rather than allow the film to be screened [...]
