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Double Obsession: Seki, Sada, and Oshima

Empire of Passion • 20m

Nagisa Oshima’s EMPIRE OF PASSION is often paired with this preceding film, the sexually explicit IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES (1976). In this 2009 video essay, Catherine Russell, author and professor of film studies at Concordia University in Montreal, looks at the two films side by side.

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