10 Actors Who Really Did It In Movies
3. In The Realm Of The Senses – Eiko Matsuda & Tatsuya Fuji
One of the more, shall we say, ‘avant-garde’ movies on this list, In the Realm of the Senses is a fictionalised retelling of unlikely folk hero Sada Abe – a Japanese prostitute who in 1936 embarked on an intense, obsessive affair with her employer that ended with her killing him via erotic asphyxiation and chopping off his penis as a keepsake.
It stirred up plenty of controversy after its 1976 release and its uncut version remains banned in its native Japan where it broke taboo by showing not only 100% real sex but pubic hair too which was apparently a big no-no until Japan’s obscenity laws were relaxed somewhat in the 1990s.
Mind, it’s not so much the appearance of pubic hair that’s so bad but rather the fact that we see it being eaten. Oh, and at one point a hardboiled egg is inserted into the leading lady’s vagina. So yeah... avant-garde.