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Apocalypse Whores: Seijun Suzuki’s Gate Of Flesh – The Nail That Sticks Out

14 April 2012 3:32 AM, PDT | Boomtron | See recent Boomtron news »

 

“Who was it that turned me into this kind of woman?”

-Song from Gate of Flesh

Welcome to post-World War II Tokyo. The Occupied City. It’s a crime-fest. Aside from yakuza-run markets, gang wars, gambling, and seemingly everybody on the grift, prostitution  is so utterly widespread, there’s even a governmental department named The Raa (Recreation and Amusement Association) specifically established to relieve the occupying troops of pent-up libidinal urges that could possibly be exorcised in even less wholesome ways. The ensuing  fuckfest is prodigious. So prodigious that  the moat around the Imperial Palace becomes “so clogged with used condoms”  it has to be “cleaned out once a week with a big wire scoop.” 1

This is the world of the classic Gate of Flesh.

We open:

MPs drag a gaggle of women away, while other, luckier, women scream obscenities at their foreign occupiers. Thieves, looting from Us barracks, are shot in the back. »

- Cameron Ashley

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Thanks, Doj!: Publishing Pricing Team-Up Scuttled; Agency Model On The Ropes

12 April 2012 6:29 AM, PDT | Boomtron | See recent Boomtron news »

Today, on the day I discovered that a shitload of Gil Brewer books have been re-issued by Prologue Books for the kindle (with some pretty average covers to be honest, except for possibly The Brat – amazing what a Meiko Kaji hat will do for a chick in lingerie), Amazon execs high-five each other with the news that certain publishers alleged attempts at eBook price fixing has been smashed by the Us Justice Department.

I mention the Brewer eBooks for two reasons:

He is my absolute personal favourite of the old-time pulpsters, and I kind of want to be the Australian him (without the crippling alcoholism) and I haven’t read several of these releases Prologue Books are selling the Brewer books for $3.19.

At $3.19, I have to admit, these people are pushing it. I worship Brewer, but I am a bit of a tight arse when it comes to eBooks (not just eBooks. »

- Cameron Ashley

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