BIZARRE SINEMA!
Wildest Sexiest Weirdest Sleaziest Films
JAPANESE ERO GRO & PINKU EIGA, 1956-1979

Edited by Carlos Aguilar, Daniel Aguilar, Stefano Piselli, Riccardo Morrocchi
Foreword by Teruo Ishii
Afterword by Seijun Suzuki
Text by Carlos Aguilar, Daniel Aguilar
Hardcover edition
Size 24,5x31,5 cm. — 112 pg. b&w / col.
Italian Text / English text
ISBN 88-8275-065-5
Cover price: Euro 47,00

Eroticism in Japanese genre cinema of the Golden Age, from “Ero Gro” to “Pinku Eiga”, to the “Roman Porno”. The grotesque, the surreal, the macabre, the sadism, the masochism, the lesbianism in the movies produced by the likes of Shintoho, Daiei, Nikkatsu, Toei and Okura, in the films by Koji Wakamatsu (Violated Angels, The Embryo), Teruo Ishii (Joys of Torture), Yusuke Watanabe (Female, Night Ladies), Yasuzo Masumura (Cross of Passion, A Fool’s Love), Seijun Suzuki (Gate of Flesh, Branded to Kill), Ko Nakahira (Hunter’s Diary), Toshiaki Kunihara (Secret Book of a Women Prison), Nobuo Nakagawa (Vampire Woman), Keigo Kimura (Diary of a Foolish Old Man)...
The heroines of these motion pictures are play-ed by such sex symbols as Mako Midori, Naomi Tani, Ikuko Moori and Ayako Wakao, that are invariably tied up and tortured.
This volume features a rich iconographic display of rare photos and original posters, unpublished writings by the Eternal Queen of S&M Naomi Tani, as such as cult directors like Teruo Ishii and Seijun Suzuki, ending up with a selected bibliography and filmography.