Title
The British title of the film is In the Realm of the Senses, a faulty translation of the French "generique" (beginning titles) of the film. The U.S. version is correctly titled Realm of the Senses, just like the French L'Empire des sens. This (original) French title derives from Roland Barthes's book about Japan, L'Empire des signes (Empire of Signs, 1970).
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