{"title":"Teruo Yoshida films","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"orgies-of-edo-blu-ray","title":"Orgies of Edo (blu ray)","description":"\u003ch2 data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eOrgies of Edo (1969)\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAn Arrow Video blu ray, Orgies of Edo (directed by Teruo Ishii) tells three grotesque erotic stories of moral sickness set during Japan’s prosperous Genroku era in this bloody follow-up to his sexploitation classic Shogun’s Joy of Torture, and the fourth entry in Toei’s ‘abnormal love’ film series.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIshii’s politically incorrect moral lessons paint a trio of tales of tragic heroines caught up in violence, sadomasochism, incest and torture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTold in anthology style by an impassive physician (Teruo Yoshida), the first story follows Oito (Masumi Tachibana), an innocent young girl deceived by a handsome yakuza and sold into prostitution who finds herself in a doomed love affair with the man who brought her to ruin. 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In the second, unfettered passions in a Buddhist nunnery are not allowed to go unpunished after abbess Reihō (Yukie Kagawa) and her attendant Rintoku (Naomi Shiraishi) encounter a virile young monk from a neighbouring temple. In the closing segment, a sadistic torturer (Fumio Watanabe) attempts to show a tattoo artist (Asao Koike) how to depict convincing expressions of faces of pain in his work by allowing him to sketch a selection of Europeans as they are tortured for entering Japan with the aim of spreading Christianity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIshii’s notorious portmanteau of Edo-era excess signalled a change in direction for a director until then regarded for his crime and yakuza films, setting the ball rolling on the run of grotesque historical anthologies for which he is now best remembered. 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