Screen capture of a scene from 愛のコリーダ/Ai no Korīda/In the Realm of the Senses/L'Empire des sens (Nagisa Oshima, 1976)
Compelling tension in this way
is my dramaturgy (doramatsurujii). I compel tension in everyone. It is fine to compel
tension in one person, but to compel tension in a great number of people, to increase it by
ten-fold, that kind of tension is, I think, what life (seimei) is
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