Teruo Ishii

And if you know anything about early seventies, Japanese cinema, uh, she is the goat of this era.

Um, this is like the kickoff to this insane run of, uh, basically what became franchise cult films female prisoner scorpion stray cat rock and of course lady snowblood um you can see some of those future roles are present in the way she kind of carries herself in this movie um you know and you can just tell like she is the star and she is going to be a mega star um you know and one who's cast a very long shadow that we talk about in cinema to this day um it's directed by another luminary the the kind of preeminent cult film director from Japan at this time, Teruo Ishii, who's most known for erogoro films, which translates, or without the abbreviation, is erotic grotesque.

This one falls loosely into that categorization.

You can see that it's certainly got some of those elements.

If you can't tell, we are all fans of hokey bad

effects.

Like you mentioned, I have seen a Teruo Ishii film before, The Horrors of Malformed Men, based off of Edagawa Rampo, a short story that was made into a manga that was extremely popular and apparently so limited, I'm one of very few that owned the original pressing, The Tale of Panorama Island.

Like that movie is so good.