
‘Cruel Tales of the Bohachi’: Code of the Forgotten Eight (1973) • The Villain (1974)
Prime examples of the ero guro jidaigeki genre, offering perfect portraits of the shifting depictions of sex and violence in Japanese cinema of the 1970s.

Prime examples of the ero guro jidaigeki genre, offering perfect portraits of the shifting depictions of sex and violence in Japanese cinema of the 1970s.

After escaping from an insane asylum, a medical student assumes the identity of a mysterious dead man, who appeared to be his doppelgänger, and gets lured to a sinister island ruled by a mad scientist and his malformed men.