Takeshi Itô

  • Hisayasu Satô – Kurutta Butokai AKA Muscle (1989)

    1981-1990AsianEroticaHisayasu SatoJapanQueer Cinema(s)

    Hisayasu Sato, known as one of the Four Heavenly Kings of Pinku Eiga, has been known from being one of the most complex and versatile filmmakers to come out of pink films and one of the few to shoot both straight and gay films. This one, probably his best known work along with Splatter: Naked Blood, is a sophisticated, dark, brooding erotic film that’s also a big tribute to Pasolini.Read More »

  • Takahisa Zeze – Aozora AKA Bestial Lust Demon – Debauchery (1989)

    Takahisa Zeze1981-1990DramaEroticaJapan

    Quote:
    A man in despair picks up a young girl named Momo from a telephone club, who turns out to have been a member of “The Monster with 21 Faces” involved in the “Glico Morinaga Incident”. Implementing audio tapes of the actual incident, the film was ahead of it’s time, twenty-eight years before “The Voice of Sin / 罪の声”. Young Takahisa Zeze struggles with the darkness of Showa history, and with his longing for criminals to be free people, he makes a strange escape between Tokyo and Kyoto, running fast and stagnant. A quiet demise that leads nowhere.Read More »

  • Shinji Imaoka – Enjo-kôsai monogatari: shitagaru onna-tachi aka Frog Song (2005)

    2001-2010AsianEroticaJapanShinji Imaoka

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    Frog Song is a truly innovative example of Pink cinema; a new and exciting movement within Japanese underground filmmaking that mixes erotic content with art film aesthetics to create an unmistakably unique and modern mode of filmmaking. A bizarre film, Frog Song follows Akemi, a young woman who runs off into the night after discovering that her husband has been cheating on her. She ends up in a local comic shop where she meets an aspiring comic-book artist, Kyoko, who supports herself by working as a prostitute. Unable to deal with her husband s betrayal, Akemi moves in with Kyoko where they develop a taste for sex, singing and frogs! With its insane narrative that somehow manages to incorporate frogs into an otherwise realistic story of love and friendship, Frog Song is a wonderful example of Pink Cinema from the director of Despite All That, the best selling title on the Sacrament label in Europe.Read More »

  • Takahisa Zeze – Raigyo (1997)

    1991-2000AsianExploitationJapanTakahisa Zeze

    Quote:
    Murder, sex, blood and designer erotism meet head-on in this
    perverse tale of sexual alienation in nineties Japan.

    Set amidst the desolate background of a warped and twisted Japan.
    Raigyo takes its concept from a real life event in which a black
    clad woman murders a man that she had just met by chance through
    a phone sex club. Her chosen place for this execution, where he
    will be stabbed to death, is called the “Love Hotel”.Read More »

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