The Empire of the Senses (1976)
"The Realm of the Senses" is a classic Japanese film that was filmed in Japan in 1976 under the direction of Nagisa Oshima and starring Eiko Matsuda, Tatsuya Fuji, Aoi Nakajima, Taiji Tonoyama, Kanae Kobayashi. It was a sensation at the time. An unprecedented erotic drama was all the rage at Cannes, where he had to make 13 passes, generating tremendous arguments, which for a film of these characteristics was amazing at that time.
The story is about two lovers living a love story to the limit beyond the limits of erotic fantasies and fetishes to the extreme. The passion takes hold of them and the sex becomes more important in their lives. Gradually his erotic games across borders are increasingly dangerous. The desire of women to own their man seem to grow more and more to the limit. To melt the love for her man to death. The protagonists, the maid-prostitute Abe Sada and Kichi his master, beyond the limits of ordinary intercourse to go into a progressive spiral of carnal knowledge and the physical fusion of two bodies will degenerate into a mutual submission and alien to any rule moral. It's a strange film that explores the intimate universe of couples and almost all the scenes were shot without leaving the room. 
Filmed with a slow, sustained a delicious claustrophobic atmosphere of gestures and perfect detail that suffocates the viewer. It is a purely erotic movie where the music, costumes and naturalness with which they are carried scenes make it an excellent film in its genre. It held the scene where she walks with her lover's severed penis in his hand, lost, holding that memory as the symbol of a virile stage collapses.
