Ginî piggu 4: Pîtâ no akuma no joi-san (1986) (V)

Director:

Hajime Tabe

Writers:

Satoru Ogura (story)
Hajime Tabe (screenplay)

Release Date:

10 September 1986 (Japan)

Genre:

Comedy | Horror

Plot:

A drag queen doctor named Peter conducts experiments on patients which end up in anguish!

Plot Keywords:

Blood | Mad Doctor | Hospital | Zombie | Tattoo

Cast

Mitsuru Fukikoshi
Kobuhei Hayashiya
Masami Hisamoto
Nezumi Imamura
Tamio Kageyama
Yumiko Kumashiro		(as Eve)
Natsumi Ogawa
Oto
Peter
Masahiro Satô
Rie Shibata
Naoto Takenaka
Yoshiaki Umegaki

Also Known As:

Ginî piggu 4 (Japan) (series title)
Ginî piggu No. 4: Pîtâ no akuma no joi-san (Japan) (video box title)
Guinea Pig 4 (Japan: English title) (series title)
Guinea Pig Number 4 (Japan: English title) (video box title)
Guinea Pig: Devil Woman Doctor
Guinea Pig: Peter's Devil Woman Doctor

Runtime:

52 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Company:

Sai Enterprise

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Requiem for a Dream (2000)

The weirdest and the least out of the series.

All of the Guinea Pig movies are quite pointless ones but this one is a bit extreme in that sense perhaps. It really lacks a purpose and instead is an odd pile of different strange and humorous sequences, mostly involving death and gore. It sometimes work out as entertaining but more often as just plain odd and truly pointless.

It's a movie that mostly leans on its devil woman doctor, a man a drag pretending to be a doctor, who is also the binding factor of the entire movie. Within him the movie would had been a totally disjointed one. The drag queen still brings some joy to the entire movie but it's simply not quite good enough to truly uplift the movie and to make it a fully successful movie.

Because of its more comical and far less serious approach, this movie is also less extreme with its gore. It also simply goes far too over-the-top for it to let its gore work out as anything shocking or realistic. Also when you compare its effects to any of the other previous entries out of the series, this movie is surely the least.

Even though its far more comical, I just couldn't enjoy watching this movie as much as I did some of the other entries within the Japanese Guinea Pig-series.

4/10