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Film Review: The Untold Story (Human Meat Roast Pork Buns) (1993) – CAT III

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In 1978 in Hong Kong, a grisly murder takes place. Eight years later, on a Macao beach, kids discover the severed hands of a fresh victim. A squadron of coarse, happy-go-lucky cops investigate, and suspicion falls on Wong Chi Hang, the new owner of Eight Immortals Restaurant, which serves delicious pork bao. The hands belong to …

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Film Review: All Night Long 3: The Final Chapter (1996)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Kikuo, a socially inept teenager, has a fascination for carnivorous plants and the minutiae of human waste. He works in a love hotel, cleaning up the filth left behind after every quickie. His isolation is reinforced by the perverse behavior of his workmates, and he soon begins to fixate on an attractive stranger. As he habitually …

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Film Review: Orgies of Edo (1969)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A collection of stories dealing with punishment towards women. REVIEW:  Filmmaker Teruo Ishii has been called the “Godfather of J-sploitation,” the “King of Cult,” and even “the Japanese master of all things taboo.” His body of work has influenced a number of genre directors, names like Takashi Miike (Visitor Q, Ichi the Killer), Ainosuke Shibata (Hitch-Hike, …

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Film Review: Prostitute Killers (San sam long: Foon cheung tou foo) (2000)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Three disgruntled orphans spend their nights picking up hookers, then raping and killing them. Things get a bit more complicated when they anger a local gangster leader, and then when one of them falls in love with one of their victims. REVIEW: Prostitute killers by the director Sam Shu-Pui Ho pretty much delivers exactly what one …

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Film Review: Riki-Oh: the Story of Ricky (aka Lik Wong) (1991) – CAT III

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Hard man Ricky is incarcerated in a futuristic prison where ultra-violence is his only means of survival in the corrupt, sadistic system. He must battle his way quite literally ‘through’ the feared ‘gang of four’, and undergo multiple tortures before facing the governor in one of the goriest climaxes ever seen. REVIEW: As we open on …

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Film Review: The Butcher (2007) – CAT III

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Relentlessly gruesome, South Korean filmmaker Kim Jin-Won’s torture flick chronicles the making of a snuff film from two perspectives: that of the sadistic producers and that of the unfortunate “stars.” Their terror captured through vérité-style camera work, the victims are made to endure the agonizing screams of their fellow captives before meeting their own grim fate …

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Film Review: Rafureshia (1995)

SYNOPSIS: A young girl, alone on a private island with her incestuous, domineering father decides to escape her confinement. An unhappy housewife, trapped in a loveless marriage with her unresponsive husband and an overbearing mother-in-law wants out of her dreary existence. The twosome join up to escape their previous lives so they can start afresh together. REVIEW: Rafureshia (aka Sukebe-zuma: …

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Film Review: Cruel Restaurant (Zankoku hanten) (2008) – CAT III

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: There’s something strange going on with the filling in those dumplings the town’s raving about… What the hell are they made of? REVIEW: Director: Koji Kowano Cast: Mihiro Taniguchi, Sakae Yamazaki, Katsuya Naruse, Yusuke Iwata, Miho Funatsu The Examination: You truly won’t believe how the dumplings are prepared in this gonzo sex ‘n splat circus. One thing about Asia’s Cat …

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