Tenshi no harawata: Akai kyôshitsu (1979)

Director:

Chûsei Sone

Writers:

Takashi Ishii (manga series Tenshi no harawata)
Takashi Ishii (screenplay)

Release Date:

6 January 1979 (Japan)

Plot Keywords:

Rape | Humiliation | Second Part | Female Nudity | Blue Movie

Awards:

3 wins & 1 nomination

Cast

Yûki Mizuhara	...	Nami Tsuchiya
Keizô Kani'e	...	Tetsuro Muraki
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jun Aki	...	Keiko Kawashima
Kenji Kawanishi	...	Oka
Ryoichi Kusanagi	...	Mah-boh
Minako Mizushima	...	Yuko Kawana
Toshihiko Oda	...	Detective

Also Known As:

Angel Guts: Red Classroom (USA) (DVD title)
Tenshi no harawata 2 (Japan) (series title)

Runtime:

Japan:79 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

Nikkatsu

Movie Connections:

Followed by Tenshi no harawata: Akai senkô (1994)

Titillation, violence, abuse and fierce erotica

Second in the series and the second by Mr Sone and what an achievement it is. The rawness of the first is gone but this is not to say there is any less passion or vigour. Beginning with a shock sequence, this ends with an even more shocking one and for a centrepiece has a prolonged scene set in a love hotel in which the central female character, Nami, seems to turn into one of Edvard Munch's vampire women before our very eyes. This tour de force, encompassing love, marriage, passion and sentimentality concentrates more upon sexual violence and the aggression and greed of the participants. Whatever the type of relationship depicted, we are shown the same tendency towards abuse and to increase our anxiety all this is intercut with scary/sexy scenes of the making of porno movies and photo sex magazines. A challenging film that does not stop asking us questions whilst showering us with titillation, violence, abuse and fierce erotica.