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SYNOPSIS: Temporarily homeless after breaking up with her boyfriend, Grace needs a place to stay. A friend introduces Grace to her pimp, and soon after getting high she steals a few thousand dollars from his wallet while he is asleep. He sets his goons on her, and after getting tired of waiting for her to pay up, they abduct her. …

SYNOPSIS: The sexy Ryôko Watanabe stars as Ami, a jaded housewife who pitches herself, body and soul, into the Tokyo decadence of the decade in an attempt to pep up her marriage. She secretly joins the elite “Madame Machiko Society Club” to experiment with discrete sex games and the thrill of making love to anonymous men. The sexual perversion and …

SYNOPSIS: The Embryo Hunts In Secret, released in July 1966, is the first film made by Japanese director Kōji Wakamatsu independently of any movie studio REVIEW: There are folks who can make nasty, sleazy movies, and there are folks who can make artsy movies, but rare is it that you can find a director who can make a movie that …

SYNOPSIS: In 1937, Japanese troops raid the Chinese city of Nanking to execute a planned massacre by subjecting over 300,000 helpless civilians to various tortures and atrocities before slaughtering them all. REVIEW: In 1980, while working for Shaw Brothers Studio, Chinese film director Tun Fei Mou decided he was done with kung-fu movies and considered doing a children’s movie. Around …

SYNOPSIS: Cheung runs a no-frills restaurant in Hong Kong. His oversexed wife, prone to sudden lustful outbursts and masturbatory frenzies, loathes him for his impotence. They work side by side in the restaurant, although she often takes time out to go shopping and meet her lover. When her cousin, Fung, arrives from mainland China, Cheung finally has the inspiration he …

SYNOPSIS: Cambodian hitman Pang, fresh off the boat in Hong Kong, successfully takes out his target. He doesn’t get very far, however, before the cops are onto him, kicking into motion a manhunt that will claim many more lives. Hiding out in a garbage dump, Pang rescues a girl he finds there from her incestuous father. She immediately attaches herself …

  SYNOPSIS: Tatsuo, a young misfit and rebel without a cause, drops out of school and gets a job as a tiler. A chance encounter leads to his involvement with the yakuza. When he attempts to leave, however, they will not allow it. Instead, he is ordered to start up a youth gang of his own. They begin small, with …

SYNOPSIS: A young woman, Kay, on holiday with a friend in South East Asia, suddenly becomes ill. Her friend dies of a heart attack when she discovers Kay in agony in a small clearing by the side of the road. The doctors at the hospital are mystified by what is causing reddish sore wounds to appear on her skin, or …

SYNOPSIS: A group of hardworking young shoemakers in Hong Kong find success with their latest product. Little do they know that their new supply of leather is made of human skin. The cops set out on the trail of a missing person, and suspicions grow as more and more people disappear. Jealousies and resentments see the close-knit group of shoemakers …

SYNOPSIS: An anthology film consisting of five different episodes of violation, torture and genital mutilation throughout Japanese history. REVIEW: Cruel History of Women’s Torture, under any of its similar monikers and literal translations of the original Japanese title, treads a similar path to Teruo Ishii’s notorious The Joy of Torture (1968). Both films adopt the portmanteau structure of Japanese horror …

SYNOPSIS: Cheung, a happily married businessman with an adoring young daughter, comes home one day to find his wife being boned by another man. While drowning his sorrows alone in a bar that night, he starts a conversation with a hooker; in his completely drunken state, he ends up unintentionally hiring some gangsters to kill his wife and her lover. …

SYNOPSIS: While marketed as a sequel to Shogun’s Sadism: The Joys of Torture, The Joys of Torture 2 is neither directed by Teruo Ishii and does not seem to be an official sequel. However it is set, as is the former, during the Japanese Edo era and takes its inspiration from the horrific and grotesque forms of torture used during …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Yieh Siu Yan is a deranged women wanted by the authorities of Taiwan. She will steal the identity of a lonely young woman to get back to Hong Kong. After that, she successfully passes every custom point and decides to become a hooker to kidnap a lonely guy to complete his enigmatic evil plan. The victim …

SYNOPSIS: Rumi, an investigative journalist, prepares to interview a garbage collector. Her colleague has heard a rumor that the man is involved in the disposal of dead bodies for the yakuza, and persuades Rumi to conduct the interview alone, under surveillance. When the man’s suspicions are eventually aroused, he and his cohorts capture the reporters and take them to a …

SYNOPSIS: Detective Cho has been assigned a particularly challenging case. Mismatched body parts are showing up all over Seoul in garbage bags, with little possibility of identifying who they belong to, until dental implants offer an important clue. This eventually leads to the discovery that the victim’s next of kin, a museum curator called Suyeon Chae, is actually an acquaintance …