Real Time Tapping Report: Pillow Talk (1993)
Pillow Talk is an impressive achievement and staggering proof that thoughtful cinema — on both a visual and thematic scale — can be made with next to no money and a tight schedule.
The Bedroom (1992)
Satō's films generally leave me feeling physically ill, and The Bedroom is no exception. The Bedroom is not graphic, but Satō's characteristically bold deconstruction of perversion, alienation, and voyeurism is unflinchingly grim.
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...
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...
An interview with Jasper Sharp
Mondo Exploito interviews Jasper Sharp, author of Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema and The Historical Dictionary of Japanese Cinema.
