 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.