
by Allan Fish
(Japan 1977 83m) DVD2 (Japan only, no English subs)
Aka. Hakkinbon bijin ranbu yori: semeru!
What a bad karma!
p Yoshihiro Yuhki d Noboru Tanaka w Akio Ido ph Masaru Mori art Takeharu Sakaguchi
Jinko Miyashita (Tae), Hatsuo Yamatani (Saiu Ito), Hiroshi Cho (doctor), Maya Kudou (Shima, 1st wife), Sumiko Minami (Kane, Tae’s mother), Aoi Nakajima (Toki, 2nd wife), Toshihiko Oda (Saeki, the photographer), Kunio Shimizu (assistant photographer),
“When I abuse a woman, I can see her many faces…nothing is more fun than toying with a living human being.” If the title wasn’t enough to convince you, that quote should tell you we are strictly in the ‘not for Aunt Edna’ realms of seventies taboo. Noboru Tanaka, if he’s remembered in the English speaking world, is known more for A Woman Called Abe Sada – a version of the same events depicted by Oshima in Ai No Corrida – or by The Watcher in the Attic. Though neither were really major films, they both contrived to be rather memorable, but both pale beside this, his most shocking and yet impressive film. Along with Kumashiro’s The Woman With Red Hair it probably represents the summit of that most lowly of cinematic strains, Japanese pinku eiga. (more…)
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