In the Realm of Senses is one of the foremost controversial movies in the history of cinema, with critics and fans still debating if it is of high artistic value or just pornography. Osima based the film on the true story of Sada Abe, a woman, who in 1936 erotically asphyxiated her lover and subsequently proceeded on cutting of his penis and testicles and carrying them in her kimono. The motion picture describes the relationship between Sada Abe and Kichizo Ishida, a hotel owner, through a plethora of erotically perverted scenes, up to its tragic conclusion. Furthermore, solely excluding the mutilations scene, the rest of the erotic ones incorporated actual sex, including fellatio and an orgy with geisha using sex aids. However, beyond its