Bizarre Sinema! - Japanese Ero Gro & Pinku Eiga 1956-1979

Eroticism in Japanese genre cinema of the Golden Age, from "Ero Gro¿ to "Pinku Eiga¿, to the "Roman Porno¿. The grotesque, the surreal, the macabre, the sadism, the masochism, the lesbianism in the movies produced by the likes of Shintoho, Daiei, Nikkatsu, Toei and Okura, in the films by Koji Wakamatsu (Violated Angels, The Embryo), Teruo Ishii (Joys of Torture), Yusuke Watanabe (Female, Night Ladies), Yasuzo Masumura (Cross of Passion, A Fool's Love), Seijun Suzuki (Gate of Flesh, Branded to Kill), Ko Nakahira (Hunter's Diary), Toshiaki Kunihara (Secret Book of a Women Prison), Nobuo Nakagawa (Vampire Woman), Keigo Kimura (Diary of a Foolish Old Man)...
The heroines of these motion pictures are played by such sex symbols as Mako Midori, Naomi Tani, Ikuko Moori and Ayako Wakao, that are invariably tied up and tortured. This volume features a rich iconographic display of rare photos and original posters, unpublished writings by the Eternal Queen of S&M Naomi Tani, as such as cult directors like Teruo Ishii and Seijun Suzuki, ending up with a selected bibliography and filmography.