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Published on 05-24-2020 08:47 AM
Released by: Artsmagic
Released on: March 29th, 2005.
Director: Chûsei Sone, Noboru Tanaka, Toshiharu Ikeda, Takashi Ishii
Cast: Machiko Ohtani, Sanshô Shinsui, Megu Kawashima, Yûki Mizuhara, Keizô Kanie, Jun Aki, Eri Kanuma, Takeo Chii, Mimi Sawaki, Jun Izumi, Masahiko Abe, Kyoko Ito, Mayako Katsuragi, Naoto Takenaka, Hirofumi Kobayashi
Year: 1978/1979/1979/1981/1985
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Angel Guts - The Nikkatsu Series – Movie Review:
The Angel Guts series, all based on some unusual erotic horror manga by Takashi Ishii (who would later become familiar to Japanese film enthusiasts as the director of the Black Angel films, the Gonin films, and Freeze Me) are not particularly accessible films – at least not by the standards of western viewing audiences. On the surface, they blend sex and violence (something still rather taboo on these shores) and they all deal with the act of rape, never shying away from depicting it either.
While at first glance these films are nothing more than the crass glorification of sexual violence towards women, when one takes a closer look at them and gives some thought to the context in which the events in these films occur, it does become obvious that although these stories are told very graphically, there’s a lot more to them than first appears. The ‘guts’ in the title of the series doesn’t represent a woman’s innards but in fact refers to the courage they portray by surviving their predicaments. Hardly something you’d want to show at a rape survivor support group meeting, but not quite
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