“In the first place, to make films is a criminal act in this world.” – Oshima Nagisa “They were a nation of anxious people, and they could do nothing individually, so they went mad en masse.” – Tom ...

Though Uncomfortable Brunch, the purveyors of cinematic cringe, have screened Nagisa Oshima’s In the Realm of the Senses before, back when the film series was hosted by Will’s Pub, this screening at ...

The film also had direct consequences: Ōshima was indicted for obscenity in Japan in 1977, a charge of which he was finally and fully acquitted for the second time five years later; the judge accepted ...