Ai no korîda

1976 [JAPANESE]

Action / Drama / Romance

37
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 84% · 38 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 64% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.6/10 10 25456 25.5K

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Plot summary

A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual relationship.

Director

Nagisa Ôshima Photo
Nagisa Ôshima

Top cast

Aoi Nakajima Photo
Aoi Nakajima as Toku
Naomi Shiraishi Photo
Naomi Shiraishi as Geisha Yaeji
Meika Seri Photo
Meika Seri as Matsuko
Yasuko Matsui Photo
Yasuko Matsui as Tagawa Inn Manager
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940.34 MB
1200*720
Japanese 2.0
NC-17
Subtitles de  us  fr  it  nl  pt  es  
23.976 fps
1 hr 42 min
Seeds 21
939.93 MB
1204*720
Japanese 2.0
NC-17
Subtitles de  us  fr  it  nl  pt  es  
24 fps
1 hr 42 min
Seeds 5
1.7 GB
1792*1072
Japanese 2.0
NC-17
Subtitles de  us  fr  it  nl  pt  es  
24 fps
1 hr 42 min
Seeds 26

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Sigeki Ogino

To put it bluntly, it was Pasolini and

To put it bluntly, it was Pasolini and Nagisa Oshima who elevated pornography to an art form. "Ai no Corrida" is a film based on the crazy scandal of a Japanese woman, Sada Abe, who was obsessed with sex. The film is a masterful depiction of sex, and in the uncensored version, viewers will be surprised to find that the sex acts in the film are no different from those in pornographic videos. Some may be put off by the scenes of pubic hair, semen, and lewd displays of genitalia, male and female. However, it is questionable to dismiss the film's unusual artistry on that basis alone. No one can fail to notice that the sex scenes depicted in "Ai no Corrida" are ten thousand times better than those in the erotic "Species". Nagisa Oshima is by far a more aesthetically pleasing director than Akira Kurosawa, and he could have made any number of films that ordinary people would enjoy watching. His talent is unwavering, and this sex-documentary style masterpiece is unique in Asia.
Reviewed by Infofreak

Overshadowed by the pointless "art" versus "porn" debate!

'Empire Of The Senses' is one of the least seen and much debated movies of the Seventies. "Least seen" because in many countries, including the one I live in, it has been banned, or only available in censored versions for many years. This movie divides people - those that like it hail it as ART, those that don't dimiss it snobbishly as PORN. Both camps are fooling themselves! 'Empire Of The Senseless' is BOTH. Is it "serious"? Yes. Is it voyeuristic and prurient? Yes. Is it a masterpiece? Not quite. Is it worth watching? Very much so. In fact I'd say it was essential viewing for anyone interested in extreme or taboo-breaking movies. The Seventies were the decade where the boundaries of screen sex, violence and disturbing imagery were repeatedly stretched. Peckinpah's 'Straw Dogs' and 'Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia', Bertolucci's 'Last Tango In Paris', Scorsese's 'Taxi Driver', Kubrick's 'A Clockwork Orange',were all milestones, and the the art movies of Herzog, Warhol, Pasolini, and Jodorowsky battled it out with the horror and exploitation of Russ Meyer, Dario Argento, John Waters,and David Cronenberg. Add to that the unexpected crossover success of 'Deep Throat' and the very existence of shockers like 'Ilse, She Wolf Of The SS' and 'Cannibal Holocaust', and what do you get? The artificial and meaningless divisions of genres, "high art" vs "trash", new ways of thinking vs new ways of making money, it was all on the table. For one brief decade it looked like a brave new world. Then everything that was gained was lost - Spielberg and Simpson/Bruckheimer cleaned up (financially and aesthetically), and things have never been the same since. Watch 'Empire Of The Senseless' with that in mind. It may be flawed - you'll be alternatively fascinated and bored - but it is an important movie from an important period in movie history.
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