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Horrors of Malformed Men

Original title: Kyôfu kikei ningen: Edogawa Rampo zenshû
  • 19691969
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  • 1h 39m
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6.5/10
1.6K
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Horrors of Malformed Men (1969)
  • Horror
After escaping from an insane asylum, a medical student assumes the identity of a mysterious dead man, who appeared to be his doppelganger, and gets lured to a sinister island ruled by a mad... Read allAfter escaping from an insane asylum, a medical student assumes the identity of a mysterious dead man, who appeared to be his doppelganger, and gets lured to a sinister island ruled by a mad scientist and his malformed men.After escaping from an insane asylum, a medical student assumes the identity of a mysterious dead man, who appeared to be his doppelganger, and gets lured to a sinister island ruled by a mad scientist and his malformed men.
IMDb RATING
6.5/10
1.6K
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  • Director
    • Teruo Ishii
  • Writers
    • Teruo Ishii(screenplay)
    • Masahiro Kakefuda(screenplay)
    • Rampo Edogawa(novel "Panorama-tô kitan")
  • Stars
    • Teruo Yoshida
    • Yukie Kagawa
    • Teruko Yumi
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  • Director
    • Teruo Ishii
  • Writers
    • Teruo Ishii(screenplay)
    • Masahiro Kakefuda(screenplay)
    • Rampo Edogawa(novel "Panorama-tô kitan")
  • Stars
    • Teruo Yoshida
    • Yukie Kagawa
    • Teruko Yumi
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    • 27User reviews
    • 55Critic reviews
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    Teruo Yoshida
    Teruo Yoshida
    • Hirosuke Hitomias Hirosuke Hitomi…
    Yukie Kagawa
    • Shizukoas Shizuko
    Teruko Yumi
    • Hidekoas Hideko…
    Mitsuko Aoi
    • Toki Komodaas Toki Komoda
    Michiko Kobata
    • Chiyoko Komodaas Chiyoko Komoda
    Yumiko Katayama
    • Female Patient Aas Female Patient A
    Kei Kiyama
    • Keias Kei
    Reiko Mikasa
    • Mad Womanas Mad Woman
    Miki Obana
    • Slashed Womanas Slashed Woman
    Michi Tanaka
    • Kinas Kin
    Yoshiko Katô
    • Masseuras Masseur
    Asano Kanamori
    • Female Patient Bas Female Patient B
    Yôko Koyama
    • Mikias Miki
    Chiyo Okada
    • Clerkas Clerk
    Mie Hanabusa
    Mie Hanabusa
    • Mieas Mie
    Sumie Ozawa
    Masaomi Kondô
    • Takeshias Takeshi
    Misao Kawasaki
    • Hunchback Bas Hunchback B
    • Director
      • Teruo Ishii
    • Writers
      • Teruo Ishii(screenplay)
      • Masahiro Kakefuda(screenplay)
      • Rampo Edogawa(novel "Panorama-tô kitan")
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      Although this film had built a reputation, it was not available for viewing in the United States for 40-50 years. It finally was released on DVD in the U.S. but some, if not all, did not contained English dubbing or subtitles. Lack of theatrical showings was possibly due to the extensive topless nudity throughout the film. It was reportedly banned outright in many areas.
    • Connections
      Featured in Malformed Memories (2007)
    • Soundtracks
      Utsukushiki Tennen (aka: Beautiful Nature)
      Composed by Hozumi Tanaka

      Circus music

    User reviews27

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    6/10
    Bizarre attempt to mix horror with Butoh dance
    Postwar Japan gave birth to probably one of the most consistently weird dance forms, Butoh. It rather hard to describe except that the processions of anguished clay caked naked bodies and rag covered transvestites makes me think of a nuclear holocaust. Since Japan is the only country with any experience with the horrors of a nuclear holocaust, it isn't surprising.

    We open with a dazed man in the middle of a cage of naked crazy women in a mental institution. We soon learn that he's an inmate as well. He is haunted by an odd children's lullaby. That night a strange bald man tries to kill him but instead our hero kills the bald man and escapes. Our hero hears the unusual lullaby and finds a circus performer who seems to come from the same remote place on the coast. He makes his way to the coast and finds out that a rich man who looks exactly like him has just died. He digs up the body and switches clothing becoming the dead man mistakenly buried too soon. Our hero then attempts to discover the strange secrets of the dead man's family while trying to imitate the deceased.

    After watching this production I am very interested in why this film has been banned in Japan for so long. There are plenty of films that are WAY MORE DISTURBING, disgusting or horrifying from Japan, some made the same year! The most likely part is the second half of the film when the Butoh dancers are given plenty of screen time but much of it is mystifying to me rather then disturbing. The couple of torture scenes are rough but not worse then anything I've seen from any pinku film.

    Anyway the film is quite good for the first half and starts to fall apart during the second half. It seems the the director and his camera person really didn't know what to do with the Butoh dancers. We get a number of very striking Butoh scenarios, poorly filmed (compared to the excellent filming in the rest of the film), that go by with the main characters just gazing on in disbelief. No real connection to the plot.

    An interesting experiment.
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    • Release date
      • October 31, 1969 (Japan)
    • Country of origin
      • Japan
    • Language
      • Japanese
    • Also known as
      • Horror of the Malformed Men
    • Filming locations
      • Noto, Ishikawa, Japan
    • Production company
      • Toei Company
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 39 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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