Ukiyo-e Cruel Story (1968)

Original title

浮世絵残酷物語

Directed by

Tetsuji Takechi

Genre

pornographic film, exploitation film, pink film

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 24m

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A pink film from 1968 by a director who challenged censorship laws. It uses eroticism and a historical ukiyo-e setting to make a statement against the film rating board.

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What happens

Ukiyoe Cruel Story (浮世絵残酷物語, Ukiyoe Zankoku Monogatari) is a 1968 Japanese pink film directed by the "Father of Pink", Tetsuji Takechi, and starring the current "Queen" of Pink, Noriko Tatsumi. Made after Takechi had won an obscenity trial over Black Snow (1965), the film has been called "Takechi's personal message to Eirin." Though still containing significant erotic content, this is one of Takechi's few films to pass the censor relatively unedited, perhaps because Eirin feared losing another embarrassing public confrontation with the outspoken director. In October 2006 Ukiyoe Cruel Story was shown as part of a Takechi retrospective, and it was released on DVD in Japan on January 25, 2008. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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