Shojo no harawata (1986)

User Rating:

4.2/10   

Director:

Kazuo 'Gaira' Komizu

Writer:

Kazuo 'Gaira' Komizu (writer)

Release Date:

31 May 1986 (Japan)

Genre:

Horror

Plot:

Members of a film crew making a soft core porn are dismembered by a demon in a warehouse.

Plot Keywords:

Exploitation | Extreme Sadism | Organ Removal | Disturbing | Decapitation

Cast

Saeko Kizuki	...	Rei
Naomi Hagio	...	Kazuyo
Megumi Kawashima	...	Kei
Osamu Tsuruoka	...	Itomura
Daiki Katô	...	Asaoka
Hideki Takahashi	...	Tachikawa
Kazuhiko Goda	...	A murderer

Also Known As:

Entrails of a Virgin (USA)
Guts of a Virgin (USA)

Runtime:

USA:72 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Finland:K-18 | Netherlands:16 | Canada:18+ (Quebec)

Company:

Rokugatsu Gekijô

Movie Connections:

Followed by Bijo no harawata (1986)

Weird...just weird

A lot of these Japanese soft porno movies remind me of old American nudie/sex films from the 60s, albeit a lot more explicit. This one is no exception, save the severely warped "horror" (?) movie that somehow sneaks its way into this tame squeal and grunt production. The "porno" parts are almost anti-erotic (they reminded me of scenes from Andy Milligan's "Seeds of Sin" for some reason) with lots of irritating Japanese girl squealing and the typical Japanese obsession with various bodily fluids dripping or being flung about (watch out for fogged pubic hair though!). In the midst of this time wasting stuff a muddy guy stalks around the fringes of the production and finally makes himself known by killing and raping the cast in ridiculous ways, before finally impregnating the one survivor while spouting off nonsense about "the only power that can kill me" or something. This movie was boring, and yet fascinating. The acting comes from the Big Book of Japanese Acting Templates. The cute girl acts like the cute girl in every other Japanese movie, as do the crazy girl, sexy girl, and horny lecherous old man. The violence is very cheap and silly, but seemingly from another movie, as if the director really wanted to make this extreme and surreal horror movie statement (in the terrible supplemental interview with him that I watched for 5 minutes he mentioned Decartes and said he was "angry at the world") but could only get sex movie studio Nikkatsu to fund it, so tossed off a half dozen boring sex scenes before getting to the good stuff. The "good stuff" made this movie semi-legendary on the underground/bootleg circuit for years (the title alone was a strong selling point), but I'm glad I never shelled out $20 for a bootleg, its just not all that great, save as a curio.