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Plot Summary:
A gruesome snuff video is found in a sex booth. It shows a young woman who is tortured, killed, and dismembered by an unknown sadist.The deadly blade is hidden inside the camera itself. Hisayasu Sato's regular Kiyomi Ito begins to investigate the videotape.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 64 min
Plot tags: extreme horror, pink cinema
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Angel Guts: Red Vertigo (1988)
Plot Summary:
Nami is a nurse and the unwilling object of her patients' lust. When she is hit by a car whilst fleeing from the home of her unfaithful boyfriend, the driver of the car takes her as a sexual prisoner.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: erotic, pink cinema, sexploitation film
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Rape Climax! (1987)
Plot Summary:
Director Hisayasu Sato helmed this peculiar tale about a woman known as Locker Baby because she was left in a bus station locker as an infant. Locker Baby is raped by a man clad in black leather, traumatizing her still further, and driving her to sensory-deprivation therapy. Unfortunately, she is raped during the course of the therapy and becomes pregnant, leading to a denouement which any reader of the "Hot Blood" or "Borderlands" series will see coming a mile away. Kiyomi Okada stars with Asami Yamaguchi, Shoichiro Sakata, and Toru Moriya.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 64 min
Plot tags: light
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Brain Sex (1988)
Plot Summary:
A teenage couple drive around improvising radio shows, following night stalkers and rapists or peeping on various sexual escapades, describing what they see in detail, feigning shock and screams as the attackers become more violent.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: erotic, biting, suspense
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Pervert Ward: S&M Clinic (1989)
Plot Summary:
An abusive psychologist(Kazuhiro Sano) enjoys torturing and abusing his wife (Kiyomi Ito).After rough sexual session of pain and dominance she decides to leave his husband.Then her masochistic twin sister(Kiyomi Ito)arrives and of course plenty of kinky sexual torture and bondage happens next.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags:
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Naked Action: College Girl Rape Edition (1990)
Plot Summary:
This strange pinku-eiga entry from cult director Hisayasu Sato includes contemporary technology and parapsychology against a background of sadistic and rapes for hire softcore sex. As usual in Sato’s films, the center of the tale is an alienated young guy eager to discover a way to spend his bills. Financial relief shows up in the form of unknown e-mails directing him to rape women for money, capturing the crimes as evidence of his work. Sordid as his brand new job may be, the aspiring rapist seems to have solved his financial woes, until a feisty young paranormal uses the girl extrasensory powers to resolve the case.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags:
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Survey Map of a Paradise Lost (1988)
Plot Summary:
One of the infamous "Four Devils" of the Japanese pink movie scene, Hisayasu Sato delivers an original and thrilling whodunit that moves through the layers of reality. Reporter Nukada's next big assignment is the secret world of Japanese phone sex clubs. He gets in touch with Midori, a part-time employee at the Banana Club, but is startled to hear she's been implicated in the bloody death of a client with perverted tastes, Kihara. Sensing a bigger story, Nukada uncovers a link between Midori and the late Kihara's wife and realizes that the situation is much more complex than he imagined. And in this world of blood-play and electro-sex, the biggest shock has yet to be announced.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 66 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic
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The Jekyll and Hyde Portfolio (1971)
Plot Summary:
A man commits a series of murders due to his dual personalities and his zodiac birth sign.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
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Zoom Up: Rape Site (1979)
Plot Summary:
Tomoko (Erina Miyai) is investigating a rapist who is terrorizing the city, but at the same time derails the search by grabbing the wrong suspects. In one scene, which the Weissers call "staggeringly repulsive", the rapist inserts a light bulb into his female victim and starts kicking her stomach until it shatters inside her. The Weissers describe the film as misogynist and mean-spirited, but add that "the project is expertly handled by director extraordinaire Ohara.".
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags:
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Lolita Vibrator Torture (1987)
Plot Summary:
A sicko lures a young girl to his freight container and subjects her to plenty of mean and nasty.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 297
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 63 min
Plot tags: controversial, detective, transgressive
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Molester's Train: Dirty Behavior (1993)
Plot Summary:
A boy, abandoned by the whole family - torn apart by obsessions, perversions and problems of every kind-start looking at everything around him through the eye of the camera, so that nothing can seem flat and keep up hope. The meeting between these two lonely souls will bring unexpected consequences.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: uplifting, sexual, sexy
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Muscle (1989)
Plot Summary:
Ryuzaki, an editor of Muscle Magazine, which features photographs of men with sculpted bodies, becomes involved with a man named Kitami; their affair soon becomes dominated by sadomasochistic games, with a horrid result. Jump ahead one year, Ryuzaki is released from jail and goes in search of Kitami, perhaps to make amends. The films of Pasolini, especially "Salò," dominate Ryuzaki's imagination; he works sometimes at the Lunatic Theatre, which shows films about rough trade; and, he becomes involved with a couple into BDSM. Will Ryuzaki find Kitami, and what will happen if he does?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Pleasure Kill (1987)
Plot Summary:
Prototype version of Naked Blood.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 57 min
Plot tags: extreme horror, pink cinema, sexploitation film
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The Fetist (1998)
Plot Summary:
Slightly strange Sato entry from 1998 revisting the gay pinku (a broad cinematic term used to categorize a wide variety of Japanese films with adult content) once again. A young man in a somewhat abusive gay relationship slowly loses his mind and becomes a serial killer, slashing random people in the streets. There's a next-door neighbour obsessed with capturing sounds and eavesdropping, another neighbour who has an S&M relationship with a girl that seems to unsettle and trigger violent and confusing thoughts in the young man, and there's a gay painter who becomes obsesed with the young man. Violence escalates and becomes chaotic, but none of their behaviour makes any sense.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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Neigh Means Yes (1991)
Plot Summary:
Yuu is living with her horse Ryusei on the edge of the sea. One day a young researcher and three artists arrive and they disturb Yuu's quasi-telepathic relation with a horse.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: pink cinema, sexploitation film
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Horse, Woman, Dog (1990)
Plot Summary:
Typically urban pinku-eiga filmmaker Hisayasu Sato switched to a rural local for this graphic descent into softcore sleaze and bestiality. At heart, the film is an extremely perverse rural Gothic reminiscent of Western '70s films like Pets and Dvaergen, in which a necrophilic man lives in a secluded house with a female amnesiac and a woman who murdered her sister. Sato centers his attention on the psycho-sexual deterioration of his protagonists, while Shintoho publicity played on star Kanako Kishi's outrageous sex scenes with canine and equine "lovers," ensuring that an otherwise routine film became a minor succès de scandale.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: erotic, controversial, surreal, pink cinema, sexploitation film, cult film
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Female Teacher: In Front of the Students (1982)
Plot Summary:
The lovely Reiko has taken a new teaching job at a creepy old high school. She is an extremely attractive woman and the young students in her class have fallen for her. One night, after tennis practice, she is brutally assaulted in the locker room shower by a man with a stocking over his face. Left on the floor naked and in shock, she discovers a single puzzle piece left behind by the crazed man. A few days later, a pair of students enact a perverted sexual revenge on Reiko for kicking someone off the tennis team. Could one of these students be the man who brutalized her in the locker room? Who owns the strange puzzle piece? As the mystery unfolds, Reiko must come to terms with her own sexual urges and fate.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: pink cinema, sexploitation film
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Sex Hunter (1980)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful young ballet dancer is accepted into a prestigious and exclusive dance academy. Overjoyed at the opportunity to further her career and repair her relationship with her boyfriend, she soon discovers that the academy has a much, much darker side to it--and she may not be able to escape it.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Violated Angels (1967)
Plot Summary:
A young man breaks into a nurse's rooming house and one-by-one kills off nurses.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 56 min
Plot tags: scary, depressing, suspense, controversial, crying, avant garde
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Unfaithful Wife: Shameful Torture (1992)
Plot Summary:
Erotic drama set in an underground Tokyo club called The Bedroom, where the female clientele are drugged into a trance-like state and are subjected to different styles of bizarre, fetishistic sex by the male clientele.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 324
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 64 min
Plot tags: controversial, extreme horror, erotic, rough, sexy, serious, realistic, suspenseful, experimental, surreal
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All Night Long 2 (1995)
Plot Summary:
In downtown Japan, a lonely computer nerd tries to maintain a peaceful existance while being stalked by a gang of deviant homosexuals who want to use him for their brutal S&M activities.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 573
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: disturbing, controversial, brutal, bloody, heavy, terrifying, extreme horror, banned, banned film, cult film
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Shogun's Joys of Torture (1968)
Plot Summary:
One of the most famous of cult director Ishii Teruo's films. A young magistrate recalls three tales of heinous crimes committed by women and brutal punished that ensued. Not for the faint of heart.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 613
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: anthology, bloody, suspense, slasher, grindhouse, dark fairy tale, crying, weird
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Olga O's Strange Story (1995)
Plot Summary:
When Olga Roli returns to her birthplace after a nervous breakdown, it quickly becomes much worse for her. Anonymous, threatening phone calls to deal with her as Olga O, her stage name from her time working in a local strip club, soon followed by a near miss with a murderous motorcyclist.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic, suspense, independent film, sexploitation film
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Anti-Porno (2016)
Plot Summary:
Japan's oldest major movie studio asks a batch of venerable filmmakers to revive its high-brow soft-core Roman Porno series.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, mindfuck, experimental, contemplative, philosophical, sad, surreal, underground film, controversial
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Id (2005)
Plot Summary:
A man known as the "Murderer" wanders through the woods. The sound of water flowing deep underground fills his head.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspense, surprise ending, cult film
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Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972)
Plot Summary:
Oliviero is a burned-out writer, living at his estate near Venice, his dead mother dominating his imagination. He is also a degenerate: sleeps with his maid and his ex-student, hosts Bacchanalia for local hippies, and humiliates his wife Irina in front of strangers. She lives in terror. When a young woman is murdered, police suspect Oliviero. Things get complicated when his young, beautiful, and self-confident niece, Floriana, pays an unexpected visit. A silver-haired stranger observes. More women die, and thoughts of harming Irina give Oliviero new inspiration. What's Floriana's game and who's the observant stranger? Watching all is a black cat named Satan.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, surprise ending, erotic, sexy, suspense, grindhouse, psychological, tense, atmospheric
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All Night Long (1992)
Plot Summary:
Three high-school outcasts pursue a savage gang of thugs after one of their girlfriends is raped and murdered.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 813
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: disturbing, controversial, extreme horror, bloody, slasher, disgusting, terrifying, transgressive, cult film
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Naked Blood: Megyaku (1996)
Plot Summary:
A scientist taints his mother's scientific experiment with his own drug that transforms pain into a pleasurable experience. Unfortunately for the three women involved in the experiment, the drug works a little bit too well.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: extreme horror, disturbing, bloody, slasher, erotic, experimental, surreal, controversial, deep, cult classic
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Shogun's Sadism (1976)
Plot Summary:
Two short stories set in Edo during the Shogun era. 1. During a time when Christians are persecuted vehemently, Iori falls in love with young Christian girl. When she and her family are captured during a raid, his sadistic master takes her as her personal slave to torment him, and tries breaking her spirit by means of rape, torture and pure sadism. After Iori refuses to participate any longer he is exiled, but vows to get her back. 2. When Sutezo is forced to serve the cruel master of a brothel to repay his debts, he becomes friends with the young girl Sato. Together, they escape and try to get by on scams and theft.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 748
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: disturbing, bloody, depressing, controversial, anthology, extreme horror, transgressive, sadistic
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Guilty of Romance (2011)
Plot Summary:
A detective probes the brutal murder of a woman in a red light district while a housewife hides her double life as a prostitute from her husband.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 144 min
Plot tags: erotic, disturbing, rough, stylized, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, sexy
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Audition (1999)
Plot Summary:
Seven years after the death of his wife, company executive Aoyama is invited to sit in on auditions for an actress. Leafing through the resumés in advance, his eye is caught by Yamazaki Asami, a striking young woman with ballet training.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 88000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan, South Korea
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, scary, disturbing, tense, dark, bloody, surreal, controversial, suspenseful, suspense