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6.9/10   86 votes
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Director:
Kôji Wakamatsu
Writer:
Masao Adachi (screenplay)
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Release Date:
July 1966 (Japan) more
Genre:
Drama more
User Comments:
A disturbing and violent masterpiece. more

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Also Known As:
The Embryo Hunts in Secret (USA)
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Runtime:
72 min
Country:
Japan
Language:
Japanese
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
France:-18 | France:-16 (court decision)

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6 out of 7 people found the following comment useful:-
A disturbing and violent masterpiece., 26 April 2001
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I've seldom seen such a mixture of disturbing violence and heartrending visual poetry as in this film by Koji Wakamatsu. There is but so much you can do with the story of a woman who is kept prisoner in an apartment; where she is repeatedly humiliated, beaten and tortured by her psycho boyfriend. Unless your name is Wakamatsu. This is 1966 and we are treated to visual experimentation from bleachers to freeze frames, inventive choice of camera angles and virtuoso editing. In one torture scene the sound completely disappears and we can only see the woman's face contort with pain. This is not cheap sensationalism but a highly inventive film which, here and there, makes excellent use of classical music to underline the action. Although the violence is disturbing one cannot help but feel sorry for the man. His sick, twisted mind is torn between tender feelings for his prisoner and the violent impulses that make him torture her. Koji Wakamatsu's handling of the script manages to convincingly show this duality. Fascinating in its austere and brutal poetry, this film paved the way for other Wakamatsu masterpieces like Violated Angels (1967) and Go,Go, Second Time Virgin (1969).

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