Eating Schoolgirls: Osaka Telephone Club (1997)
When watching this, I wound up turning off the subtitles. My level of Japanese language comprehension is low, despite having studied it for the past year or two, but even I could see that the subtitles were purely guesswork and did not match up at all with what characters were saying. Only understanding words and...
New Tokyo Decadence: The Slave (2007)
Pink films cover a wide spectrum of fetishes and, especially considering Japan’s love affair with rope-play, it’s not surprising to find a bottomless pit of BDSM themed entries. Normally, I would steer clear of films of this ilk – not because of any moral qualms, it’s just that sadomasochism leaves me a little queasy. Intrigued...
Lolita: Vibrator Torture (1987)
I always wind up talking about Hisayasu Satō in this column. This time I didn’t even intend to. I’m currently traveling around Europe, and I decided I’d better watch Lolita: Vibrator Torture in order to erase it from my hard drive. All three words that make up its title would be enough to raise the...
White Rose Campus: Then Everybody Gets Raped (1982)
I’ve mentioned many times before that a ridiculous title is enough to get me excited about a film. Japan has to be the emperor of absurd titles. Often Japanese titles, especially those for pinku and Roman Porno flicks, are long, obnoxious and hysterically literal. I’ve dropped a lot of silly and offensive film titles in...
Naked Blood: Megyaku (1996)
My last Nihon Nihilism post focused on Hisayasu Satō’s excellent Rape Climax, which left me gagging for more Satō. Satō – probably the most internationally acclaimed/reviled of the “pinku shitenno”, a collection of four well known pink directors – has often been met with comparisons to David Cronenberg. I’m not one for making comparisons based...
Rape Climax (1987)
My partner, Taeno, and I have now made custom subtitles for two Japanese films – Muzan-E (the subs can’t be found on Mondo Exploito, as I was asked to take them down by Unearthed Films) and now Boko climax! – or Rape Climax by its lurid Western title (the Japanese title translates to “assault”, rather...
Muzan-E (1999)
NOTE: For those wanting the subtitles, I was hosting them here, but I was asked to remove the link by Unearthed Films who have a DVD release in the works. Sorry. Some months ago, my lady partner and I began working on subtitles for the infamous Muzan-E – a film by Daisuke Yamanouchi (Red...
Haze (2005)
Click on any article I’ve written on Mondo Exploito and you’ll see I’m full of dribbling praise for a variety of filmmakers. Very few, however, sit on as high a pedestal as Shinya Tsukamoto. I worship Tsukamoto and perhaps have more respect for him than any other filmmaker. Just browsing his IMDB page is jaw-dropping....
Kyoko vs. Yuki (2000)
Love him or hate him, there’s no denying that Daisuke Yamanouchi is consistent. From watching his more infamous videos – titles like Red Room, Mu Zan E and Girl Hell 1999 all produced in his oddly busy year of 1999 – it’s clear that the man knows what he likes. I have a lot of...
Entrails of a Virgin (1986)
Sometimes the title of a movie is so obnoxious that it’s enough to leave me shaking in excitement, throwing me into a frenzy of scavenging as I hunt a copy down. Perhaps that’s why I’m so obsessed with Japanese exploitation. With titles like Apartment Wife: Ass Slave (1985) and White Rose Campus: Then Everybody Gets...
Subway Serial Rape (1985)
Japanese perverts and rapists have a strange obsession with the subway. Most folks even outside of Japan will have heard tales of girls being molested on crowded trains in Tokyo as they cry for help and receive none from the passengers. The subway in Tokyo is the perfect place for a creep to conduct his...
The Embryo Hunts in Secret (1966)
Some weeks ago, I discussed Serial Rapist (1978) in a Nihon Nihilism post. The man behind that harshly titled nastiness was Kôji Wakamatsu. For this post, I’ve chosen to look at one of Wakamatsu’s earlier works. I’m not well-versed in his films, but from what I’ve read – and from what little I’ve seen –...
