Zigra (ジグラ Jigura)
Zigra lacks the flat out weirdness of Guiron, the brutish panache of Gyaos, and the creepiness of Jiger, but he is still a fun foe. Zigra's convoluted scheme involves kidnapping a sexy spacewoman from the moon, interrupting radio programs with verbal threats, and crowning himself King of the Sea.
Ridiculous death scene from Kazuo Umezu’s Death Make
Death Make is atrocious. It's awful. It's worse than atrocious and awful. It's a disaster in every aspect of its production. In a way, perhaps it is a success, because of its horribleness it has stuck in my mind more than any other entries in the Horror Theater series.
All out Female Prisoner assault on male guards
Towards the end of Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion, the prisoners take over their cell block and hold male prison guards hostage. In an utterly mad moment of role reversal, they strip down and vent their pent-up sexual frustrations on the terrified guards.
Black Snow (1965)
With Daydream, Tetsuji Takechi made the first mainstream pinku eiga, but with Black Snow, he really ruffled feathers. Yet for all its importance, Black Snow is largely forgotten.
Rape! (1976)
For a film with a title made up of "rape" and an exclamation mark, Rape! is surprisingly well made and not nearly as exploitative as you'd expect.
Return of the Street Fighter – US poster
I can't remember where Return of the Street Fighter ranks in the franchise, but I love this weirdly cartoonish poster.
Super Erotic Businessman (2002)
The title, Super Erotic Businessman, is fucking incredible, the movie itself is decidedly not. I really don't know who could possibly squeeze any sort of sexual gratification out of this.
Topless demon shower scene!
Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion is wild and features some incredible scenes captured in an incredibly theatrical style. Here is an example and one of the greatest showers scenes in cinema history...
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...
Woman in a Box – Japanese poster
I’ve had a copy of Woman in a Box – directed by the reasonably infamous Masaru Konuma and written by Kazuo ‘Gaira’ Komizu, director Entrails of a Virgin (1986) and its pseudo-sequels – lying around unwatched for a while now. I have not watched this partly because of a lack of subtitles, but mostly because...
Snuff video in Evil Dead Trap
For the most part, Evil Dead Trap (1988) is a fun and cheesy 80s horror flick. Only it doesn’t start out that way. Early on in the film, Evil Dead Trap features a horrifying scene of a reporter watching a snuff video with eye-violence that would make Lucio Fulci wince. I didn’t even bother uploading...
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...
