Demons bring gory animated Hell to Earth
Hiring Urotsukidoji as a teenager, I expected a horror anime, instead I got a heinous cocktail of crude rape scenes and tentacles invading every orifice in sight. It upset me a bit, but blew my mind too.
Good Dog (いい犬 Ii Inu)
Good Dog is not actually a dog. Housing some rather complicated fantasies, he is a human-shaped demon who dresses up in a dog costume so shitty it would offend even the least discerning of furries.
Tentacles - Japanese poster
Is it any real surprise that the best poster for a movie called Tentacles would come from Japan?
Tokusatsu TV Shows of the 70s: Tetsujin Tiger Seven & Spectreman
Out from the ashes I rise again, clawing myself out of the rubble. What will I do first? See my loved ones? Lay with a female of my own species? No. I will watch some tokusatsu TV shows from the 70s.
Jiraiya (自雷也)
The Magic Serpent is a tasty mixed grill of 60s Japanese cinema. At its core, it's a tale of revenge. Mix magic-fueled martial arts and a handful of kaijū into that pot of vengeance and you've got yourself something fabulously out of control.
Vampire Doll (1970)
Vampire Doll is brilliant stuff, and it's made all the more fascinating with the handful of cues it appropriates from western horror. But don't expect a traditional, bloodsucking tale. This is a kind of gloomy and spooky cinema unique to Japan.
Midori’s animated deformation nightmare
Midori is a shocking and hypnotic slice of animation. As unsettling as it may be and as raw as its animation is, it is a strangely beautiful film filled with many gloriously disturbing sequences like the clip below demonstrates.
Snake Girl transforms and attacks!
Filled to the brim with mad effects and hallucinatory sequences, The Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch perfectly captures the lunacy of an Umezu story. To whet your appetite, here's a scene that had me grinning ear-to-ear.
Red Room (1999) & Red Room 2 (2000)
The flat out absurdity and unabashed goofiness of the Red Room films mean that they sit outside the world of truly soul-destroying Japanese films like the Guinea Pig series. Yamanouchi just can't play things straight. In the past this has worked against him. Here, it works.
Best worst line reading ever
I don't think I've ever pressed rewind so many times, and all to hear a mangled line of dialogue over and over again. I'd imagine the Japanese director of Gappa had no clue how horrifically this poor gaijin actor, clearly not a native speaker, was delivering his line.
The Gappa Family (ガッパ)
It's a shame Nikkatsu only made this single kaijū film. Gappa, while no masterpiece, has a lot more energy and passion than some of the Godzilla and Gamera efforts that appeared towards the end of the Shōwa era.
Absurd tongue torture in Japanese Hell
Jigoku is two unfinished films mashed awkwardly into one, and the results are as messy as you'd expect. The absurdity hits its peak towards the end of the film where we watch a bunch of evil assholes get tongue tortured.
