Woods Are Wet
1973 ‘Onna jigoku: mori wa nureta’ Directed by Tatsumi Kumashiro
Synopsis
Sachiko has just committed a crime. She is helped by a couple to whom she grants her confidence. Quickly this couple blackmails her and threatens to deliver her to the police. Sachiko has no other choice but to obey them.
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An astonishingly uncompromising film that begins innocently enough (or seems to) and descends (or ascends, depending on your viewpoint) to truly Sadean levels of depravity, with much glee. It appears that a wrongly accused young girl is being rescued by a pair of wealthy hoteliers but not so. Hatsuo Yamaya plays the husband and main man and it is s ferocious performance. The wife and two housemaids are at the whim of this cruel man. I say ‘cruel’ but everybody seems to enjoy everything so maybe not. Anyway one of his little party pieces after dinner is to hoist the three women’s garments up over their heads and then when they are bare bottomed give them a little scratch or…
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Probably the most nightmarish and phantasmagorical pinku eiga there is. Not just for the menacing and sadistic nature of the perversions, but also for the technical mastery on display (atmospheric colors, ominous soundtrack, interesting use of movement, and masterful shot selection).
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An astonishingly uncompromising film that begins innocently enough (or seems to) and descends (or ascends, depending on your viewpoint) to truly Sadean levels of depravity, with much glee. It appears that a wrongly accused young girl is being rescued by a pair of wealthy hoteliers but not so. Hatsuo Yamaya plays the husband and main man and it is s ferocious performance. The wife and two housemaids are at the whim of this cruel man. I say ‘cruel’ but everybody seems to enjoy everything so maybe not. Anyway one of his little party pieces after dinner is to hoist the three women’s garments up over their heads and then when they are bare bottomed give them a little scratch or…