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Absolutely Secret: Girl Torture
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Wikipedia article
'aka' 'Top Secrets of Women Torture' and 'Top Secret of Torturing Women' is a 1968 Japanese 'Pink film' in the 'ero guro' style directed by Kiyoshi Komori 'aka' Haku Komori. The film features future Nikkatsu SM-queen Naomi Tani in a role during the first half of her career, working outside of the large studio system.
Synopsis
Set in the Edo Era, the film opens with a group of women being convicted of various crimes. The rest of the film is given to graphic depiction of the tortures the women endure as part of their sentences.
Cast
* Koji Satomi
* Naomi Tani
* Kemi Ichiboshi
* Reiko zuki ()
* Midori Hinoki ()
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* Kaoru Miya ( )
Kiyoshi Komori
Born about 1920, Kiyoshi Komori began directing in 1953, and concentrated on war films and comedies during the first decade of his career. He made his first 'pink film'-- 'Japan Torture Punishment History'in 1964, and used torture as a central theme in his 'pink' oeuvre from that point on. 'Absolutely Secret: Girl Torture', along with 'Snake Lust' (1967) is one of Komori's most notorious works. He retired from filmmaking in the mid-1970s.Weisser, p.285.
Critical reception
In their 'Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films', the Weissers assert that the film was inspired by 'ero guro' master, Teruo Ishii's 'Joys of Torture' series. However the first entry in that series, 'Joys of Torture: Tokugawa History Women Punishment', opened in May 1968, the month after the premier of 'Absolutely Secret: Girl Torture'. Of the film, the Weissers write, "This motion picture is sado-exploitation at its worst (best?)... long before Nikkatsu made it hip." They judge Komori's 'pink' thriller 'Ten Years Of Evil' to be a better film, and note, comparing Komori to two more prominent directors of the genre, "... don't expect the intricate plots usually associated with the similar Ishii productions, nor the exquisite cinematography of the Wakamatsu films."
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