This one starts out as a mystery, with our main character(Teruo Yoshida) suffering from amnesia while locked up in an insane asylum, before taking a sharp turn into all out wackiness territory resembling something that would later be made by Alejandro Jodorwsky. Including incest, various deformities, unelected extreme surgery, torture, slavery and lots of boobs director Teruo Ishii doesn't fail to elicit some kind of response in the viewer which in most cases will probably be revulsion. This adaption of the writings of Edogawa Rampo doesn't shy away from some pretty gruesome depictions of violence that I can't believe would even be dreamt of in American cinema of this era. It certainly seems to be the echoes of a country that saw some pretty extreme real-life horror after having two nuclear bombs dropped on it. Check it out if you love bizarre movies.
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