Reviewed are Impulse Pictures / Synapse Films’ latest crop of Nikkatsu Roman Porno entries – Female Teacher: Hunting / Onna kyôshi-gari + Female Teacher: In Front of the Students / Onna kyôshi: Seito no me no maede (both from 1982) – and for some contextual reference for all this period smut, I’ve added a review of Sadistic and Masochistic (2000), Hideo Nakata’s 2000 documentary on Nikkatsu’s prolific house director Masaru Konuma.
In Part 4 of our ongoing series of Wrong Erotica on video, we look at a trio of films by Koyu Ohara, the diretor of Fairy in a Cage / Ori no naka no yôsei (1977), True Story of a Woman in Jail: Sex Hell / Jitsuroku onna kanbetsusho: sei-jigoku (1975), and the sequel True Story of a Woman in Jail: Continues / Zoku jitsuroku onna kanbetsusho (1975), all released by Impulse Pictures / Synapse Films.
The TIFF Bell Lightbox announces its Spotlight Japan series, which focuses on classic 80s films, divas of the silver screen, and a selection of exploitation films from Nikkatsu, the established studio that switched gears in 1971 and embraced smut like Female Teacher: Dirty Afternoon / Onna kyôshi: Yogoreta hôkago (181) and Sex Hunter: Wet Target / Sekkusu hantâ: Nureta hyôteki (1972) – two erotic ‘roman porno’ titles just reviewed, and recently released by Impulse Pictures / Synapse Films.
Reviews of another kocking pair of naughty Nikkatsu erotica from Impulse Pictures / Synapse – Debauchery and Eros School: Feels So Good – plus quick thoughts on director Tony Scott’s suicide this past weekend.
Impulse Pictures / Synapse have thus far released 6 very naughty entries in the Nikkatsu Roman Porno series, and just erected (get it? get it?) are the first two DVD reviews – Zoom In: Sex Apartments and Zoom Up: Beaver Book Girl. Of course those titles are real. Why would I make those up?
Now Where Were We? Right. Let’s go back to LAST NIGHT (1998)
Don McKellar’s LAST NIGHT (1998) is the first review after a long pause in activities at KQEK.com
Gothic Steele: An Angel for Satan (1966)
Review of AN ANGEL FOR SATAN / UN ANGELO PER SATANA (1966), Barbara Steele’s last Italian Gothic, on Blu-ray from Severin Films
Spanish Giallo I: When a Cannibal is not a Cannibal, but When a Scream is Indeed a Scream
Severin Films showcases the work of Eloy de la Iglesia via two fine Spanish gialli entries: NO ONE HEARD THE SCREAM (1973) + CANNIBAL MAN (1972)
ArtScopeTO 10: Interview with Abstract Painter Donna Wise
For my occasional podcast series ArtScope TO, Abstract Painter Donna Wise discusses her unique techniques, and working during the 2020-2021 pandemic.
Podcast: Jason Pichonsky on Restoring Julian Roffman’s THE BLOODY BROOD (1959) + PHOBIA (1980)
Alongside a podcast with CanCon film historian Jason Pichonsky are revised reviews of Julian Roffman’s THE BLOODY BROOD (1959) + John Huston’s PHOBIA (1980), both from KINO Lorber / Unobstructed View.
Podcast: ANNE WITH AN E composers Amin Bhatia & Ari Posner
Podcast interview with ANNE WITH AN E’s composing team Amin Bhatia and Ari Posner.
Assorted characters collide and interact in the lead-up to Earth’s demise at precisely midnight.
BR: Angel for Satan, An / Un angelo per Satana (1966)
Had Barbara Steele remained in Europe – especially Italy – during the early 1970s, she may well have appeared in giallo thrillers…
BR: Cannibal Man / La semana del asesino / Apartment on the 13th Floor, The (1972)
Cannibal Man has a palpable crime-drama feel – the events unfold after daily title cards – and one can sense Hitchcockian sensibilities…
BR: No One Heard the Scream / Nadie oyó gritar (1973)
After the grisly thriller Cannibal Man (1972), Spanish auteur Eloy de la Iglesia opted for a far less graphic thriller which is part giallo…
DVD: Go-Go Boys: The Inside Story of Cannon Films, The (2014)
Produced and released around the same time as Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014), the approach by director Hilla Medalia is a more authorized chronicle…
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