 | Angel Guts
Buy used from: $34.90 The entire notorious porn/art film series from the 1970s to the 1990s. The final 3 films are engaging. The first three are a bit on the experimental/arty/dramatic side. One scene involves a leg of a table. Use your imagination.
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 | Entrails of a Virgin
Buy new: $19.99 / Used from: $9.94 Ignore those bad reviews. This guy is nuts! Great campy low budget art horror. A severed arm and self servicing. I'll leave it at that. Only 60 minutes, but the interview is great. Not for everyone.
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 | Entrails of a Beautiful Woman
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $10.19 Amazing! One of my favorites featuring various drugs, amputations, rapes, watermelons! 60 minutes, plus interview with the wacky director.
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 | Lone Wolf and Cub Box Set
Buy new: $101.49 / Used from: $69.88 Well worth the price of admission. The first 3 episodes of this set are priceless. The last 3 verge on mediocre, but are entertaining nonetheless.
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 | Zatoichi - The Blind Swordsman DVD Collector's Edition Box
Buy new: $109.98 / Used from: $68.85 Not the TV show but the films. Great stuff for you violence freaks. 2nd to Lone Wolf and Cub box.
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 | The Pinky Violence Collection - Includes Audio CD (Criminal Woman: Killing Melody/ Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom/ Girl Boss Guerilla/ Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless To Confess)
Buy used from: $53.94 AMAZING. The first film is a bore (Worthless to Confess) but the others are gold. It also includes an incredibly rare Reiko Ike CD! If only the other companies can take note from this box and up their releases!
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 | Hanzo the Razor
Buy new: $53.99 / Used from: $34.50 Samurai police man, played by the lead of the Lone Wolf series, interrogates his captives with his penis of steel!
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 | The Yakuza Papers - Battles Without Honor & Humanity (Complete Box Set)
Buy new: $78.99 / Used from: $38.93 Fukusaku, the deceased director of Battle Royal, broke the mold with these films. Collects the first five of the series with a bonus disc. Comes in a METAL sleeve/box! Very nice set here.
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 | Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $11.99 Favorite Japanese exploitation flick. Fast moving, action-suspense, nudity, bad taste. Good stuff.
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 | Sex and Fury
Buy used from: $22.88 The worst. Bad acting, little action, but redeeming qualities for you 1970s film buffs.
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 | Female Yakuza Tale - Inquisition and Torture
Buy used from: $17.09 Another sleeper here. Just as bad as "Sex and Fury!"
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| Tokyo Decameron: Three Tales of Madness and Sensuality
Buy used from: $7.95 Kei Mizutani is nice to look at in the first episode, but this one is a bore.
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 | Survey Map of a Paradise Lost
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $11.09 Weird Cronenberg-like art porn with mild violence. Again, weird stuff here. 60 minutes. Arts Magic DVD should put all his (Hisayahu) films in one collection.
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 | Rafureshia
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $11.97 Another Hisayasu pict from the 1990s.
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 | Love - Zero = Infinity
Buy used from: $10.99 Hisayasu again.
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 | Under the Carp Banner
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $10.46 Kazuhiro Sano directs this art porn flick. Like Hisayasu's films this originates from the 1990s.
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 | Burst City
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $10.99 SLEEPER here. Starts off good with a obtuse punk musical of sorts and morphs into a wanna-be Mad Max.
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 | Electric Dragon 80,000V
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $4.05 Cooler than Tetsuo. Comes with CD, 60 minute film. Stylistically it has some similarities to Rubber's Lover. However, it makes you wonder how the director made such trash (Burst City) before this one.
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 | Tetsuo - The Iron Man (Special Edition)
Buy used from: $12.20 Shocking in the 90s; but has lost its punch. Arty.
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 | Pinocchio 964
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $8.01 More sci-fi! A pretty gross film. Not necessarily "cyberpunk" persay. A bit long, slow inthe beginning, BUT once they have sex, the film goes for the gross factor. The film before Rubber's Lover.
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 | Rubber's Lover
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $7.69 The film after P 964. Filmed in black in white for optimum weirdness. A strange plot to follow, but it wallops a mighty punch towards the end. A lot of good scenes, but ultimately less satisfying than P 964. Includes interview with the director. Both this film and P 964 will be sold together as a double DVD pack. Features bonus short of a mad woman throwing up all over Tokyo.
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 | Kichiku Dai Enkai
Buy used from: $7.16 Boring beginning, BUT the films last 30 minutes are pure gold! 2 DVD set. The menus are a bit difficult to navigate.
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 | Female Prisoner #701 - Scorpion
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $7.84 Favorite Meiko Kaji film. Coherent plot, unlike Grudge Song and Beast Stable.
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 | Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41
Buy used from: $29.12 Second best to Female Prisoner 701. I have no clue why to this was not included in the box set. Perhaps Image Entertainment still has the rights?
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 | Scorpion - Female Prisoner 701: Grudge Song
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $5.82 Sleeper. Nice camera work though.
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 | Female Prisoner #701 Scorpion: Beast Stable
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $8.40 Another sleeper. Series lost its momentum by now.
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 | Blind Woman's Curse
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $10.53 Amazing film staring Kaji in her first starring role. Surreal.
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 | Lady Snowblood
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $8.58 Classic! Kill Bill ripped this one off entirely.
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 | Lady Snowblood - Love Song of Vengeance
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $5.23 Boring follow-up to Snowblood.
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 | Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $8.46 Interesting, but too long film regarding "half breeds" in Japan and Meiko's gang of sympathizers.
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 | Rica
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $14.99 Similar to the Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter story. "Half Breeds!" This too is a series. This first episode has the hallmarks of 70s exploitation films but there's more blood, some mediocre fighting but overrall more exciting than Sex and Fury or its sequel.
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 | Vermillion Pleasure Night, Vol. 2: Vox Stimuli
Buy used from: $5.33 A waste of time. Variety show from Japan. Has been erroneously reviewed as Japan's "Mad TV" with babes. If you like Asian women, this may be your thing. But really, you can look at your fantasy junk on-line.
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 | Horrors of Malformed Men
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $12.95 Banned in Japan!
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 | Snake Woman's Curse
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $8.64 More spooky stuff.
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 | Organ
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $11.57 Blood and guts...directed by a Japanese female (rare feat here).
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| Tokyo Decadence
Buy used from: $32.68 Worth tracking down. Ryu Murakami's adventures in film. (Not the trendy Murakami, this is the author of "Almost Transparent Blue" and "Coin Locker Babies"). Soundtrack by Ryuichi Sakamoto. Arty, transgressive, a bit of a mess, but very early 1990s.
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 | Blind Beast
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $9.54 SNOOZE FEST. Basically a blind man kidnaps a model, subjects her to his surreal environment, before a double suicide. Big deal! Notes by John Zorn (figures) and one of the early Fantoma releases.
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 | Pistol Opera
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $3.90 So arty, it's boring, confusing, and only appealing to those who find the actresses alluring! A snoozer here.
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 | Legends of the Poisonous Seductress #2: Quick Draw Okatsu
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $10.93 Series.
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 | Legends of the Poisonous Seductress #3: Okatsu the Fugitive
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $10.40 Series here.
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