IdleRich
IdleRich
There was the weird idea that Japanese women had their vulvas on sideways running from left to right instead of front to back.... a taxi driver I got chatting to once asked me if it were true in fact.
IdleRich
IdleRich
My friend's granddad was in a pow camp there, apparently one time he attacked a Japanese looking (probably was from Korea or something) man he saw walking down the street in Charlton or wherever he lived after the war.
WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
the WAR
IdleRich
IdleRich
I'm not sure I've seen that one... after Ichi the Killer, Visitor Q with all the necrophilic incest and breast milk all over the place and then that one where someone pulls their own stomach out of their mouth with fish hooks I'd kinda had enough of that guy to be honest.
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
Was it something you said?
version
Well-known member
That pic of the guy with the cow head I posted's also from Gozu.
IdleRich
IdleRich
There is a Japanese film called The Bedroom (also sometimes known more luridly as Unfaithful Wife Shameful Torture) which was extremely controversial - not because of its subject matter (which was fairly... hard-hitting) but cos it has a cameo from a guy who was a student in France until he killed and ate one of his fellow students. Some kind of legal and diplomatic mix-up meant that he was sent back to Japan without being charged and as a result he couldn't be charged there either, meaning that despite there being no doubt as to his guilt, he remained free to walk around and, indeed, appear in films. I saw it without being aware of this and it's a really good film but that seems unnecessarily confrontational.
IdleRich
IdleRich
It is actually a very interesting film. A club where women work at a brothel and take this drug to knock them out while men have their way with them (an idea copied by an Australian film a few years later). But shot in this very strange cold way... the first scene I seem to remember with the main actress all wrapped up in cellophane. I think her sister died in the club (maybe) and she investigates it but becomes addicted to the drug or something. Some good reviews on imdb, one of which begins "don't watch if you are turned off by amputation scenes".
IdleRich
IdleRich
I have seen it... I can't remember the ending, but the idea of a brothel where girls take a sleeping drug so they don't know what happens to them is the same.
I have that, it's great. I think it was probably a book first. Really hard to process, what people were reporting and experiencingLooks like he turned it into a book
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Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
This idea is in Neuromancer as well, isn't it? Possibly via some sort of neural implant rather than a drug, but basically the same idea.
john eden
male pale and stale
The 1990s was big on the Japanese noise stuff too. Mad exoticisation and crossover with bondage and porn side of things too.
woops
is not like other people
@Simon silverdollarcircle that kind of music you're talking about was called onkyou. I asked my mate what that meant and he tapped a metal pipe on the wall and said that's onkyou. There was a little venue in Tokyo I visited called Off Site that specialised in that stuff, very, very quiet music made by scraping a trumpet bell across the floor and so on, in front of a very very quiet and respectful audience. There was a good guitarist involved called Taku Sugimoto. A lot of the Sachiko M type, ultra high feedback minimalism and stuff was too extreme for me though. Had its moment as you say, they're all probably still at it
