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Belladonna of Sadness 1973
First glance thoughts: Ken Russell's The Devils meets Fantasia with ero-guro/French pop art/Ralf Bakshi visuals.
I've seen this called an anime but with very limited actual animation and featuring absolutely zero similarity to most animation coming out of Japan, it feels very wrong to use this term - especially when looking at the style of work which inspired this film.
In many ways anime can be seen as the filmic equivalent to manga, taking the movement of panel drawings and…
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Zoku Isoginchaku 1970
Sea Anemone was an intense, occasionally unsettling, psychological drama following a cold-hearted psychopathic young woman learning to manipulate men in order to realise her dreams of becoming a high-class Ginza girl. As fans of Japanese films of this era know, being dubbed a "sequel" doesn't necessarily mean a film will actually be a continuation of its predecessor, and this applies to Sea Anemone 2, which is frustratingly totally unrelated to the first exciting entry - both in story and tone.…
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Secret Report From A House Of Women 1968
After the untimely death of her father, a young woman, Onatsu, inherits his debts. Unable to pay them off herself, she voluntarily sells herself to a Yoshiwara brothel. At the oppressive brothel Onatsu discovers through one of her clients that her father's death might not have been quite so accidental.
With its Yoshiwara setting, Secrets of a House of Women is best enjoyed for its unparalleled look into the culture and life inside these historical brothels. However, in search of…
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Secrets of a Woman's Temple 1969
In a buddhist convent full of lesbian lust, sin and treachery, a young woman must fight to survive against the head priestess: an insane and sadistic tyrant who takes extreme pleasure in the humiliating and sexualised torture of the convent's nuns.
"Secrets of a Woman’s Temple" is a taut and effective thriller of sin and revenge that keeps its cards close enough to its chest throughout, ensuring that the audience is ever eager to uncover the secrets that lie within.…
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