Collection
The Joys of Torture Collection
Films in Toei's The Joys of Torture series, all directed by Teruo Ishii.
Timeline
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Tokugawa: Woman's Genealogy5/19/19681h 30m 5.7A tragic love story involving the 5th Shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty and a woman who became one of his concubines.
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Shogun's Joy of Torture9/28/19681h 36m 5.6A young magistrate recalls three tales of heinous crimes committed by women, and the brutal punishments that ensued.
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Orgies of Edo1/9/19691h 29m 6.0Three stories of moral sickness set during Japan’s prosperous Genroku era are told in this bloody follow-up to the sexploitation classic Shogun’s Joy of Torture, the politically incorrect moral lessons paint a trio of tales of tragic heroines caught up in violence, sadomasochism, incest and torture.
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Shameless: Abnormal and Abusive Love2/21/19691h 29m 6.3A Japanese woman is raped by her boyfriend day in day out.
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Inferno of Torture5/2/19691h 35m 5.7Japan nineteenth century. High demand for tattooed geisha generates an entire industry for their "production". Europeans pay more for tattooed beauties. Against this background, and considering the gorgeous tattooed women develop the history of confrontation between two highly skilled masters of tattoo.
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Love and Crime8/27/19691h 32m 7.2A series of short stories about bizarre crimes committed by females in the Meiji, Taisho, and Showa Eras. Discover 4 famous Japanese murderers: Takahashi Oden, the last woman beheaded in Japan, Sada Abe, a crazy lover, Kunihiko Kodaira, a rapist-killer and finally, the Toyokaku case, a woman who did everything to own a hotel.
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Oxen Split Torturing9/4/19761h 20m 5.8Two short stories set in Edo during the Shogun era. The first, during a time when Christians are persecuted vehemently, Iori falls in love with a young Christian girl. When she and her family are captured during a raid, his sadistic master takes her as his personal slave to torment Iori. The second follows Sutezo who, forced to serve the barbarous master of a brothel in order to repay his debts, befriends a young girl. Together, they both escape and struggle to get by on scams and petty theft.
