This film comprises 3 tales during the Medieval period in Japan. Before the opening credits even finish we see a woman beheaded, another burned alive and yet another torn apart by oxen. What a way to start a movie!
The first tale involves a young women who begins a relationship of a sexual nature with her brother. She gets caught and is tortured by the Shogun justice system. For this crime she is crucified and killed by being put upside down so she will drown in the tide of the ocean.
The second involves some nuns and priests who are caught having relations with one another. All of them are tortured unmercifully and then put to death.
The final tale is about a tattoo artist who wants to make the ultimate canvas on a woman's body. He watches the Shogun master torture women to get his ideas. He eventually goes mad and kills the master, resulting inmhis own death.
This film is chock full of sadism including women being whipped, burned, submerged in water over and over, and generally tortured in any way you could imagine.
Imagine my shock when I saw this was available for streaming, and I knew I had to watch it. The film is very well made and once seen it is not forgotten. There are images that will stick in your mind forever. The print is in Japanese, but has English subtitles.
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