In the Realm of the Senses
The government of Western Australian urged the Perth Film Festival to discontinue their plans to screen Nagisa Oshima's "In the Realm of the Senses", threatening that future festivals would be subject to thorough censorial review in advance, if they went ahead with the screening. As a result of this pressure, the Perth Film Festival decided not to screen Oshima's film. Film festivals in Melbourne and Sydney went on to screen "In the Realm of the Senses" without incident. On 17 December 1976, "Vase de Noces" went before the Australian censors again, and again received a judgment of "refused classification". A third such attempt was made a third time on 1 April 1977. But, the Australian censors rejected the film once again, effectively banning its reproduction and dissemination throughout Australia. The film remains banned throughout Australia to this day, and even after more than 40 years of being banned nationwide in the country, this ruling has not been successfully appealed since.