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An injured thief on the run finds sanctuary within a brothel of united, ruthless women.An injured thief on the run finds sanctuary within a brothel of united, ruthless women.An injured thief on the run finds sanctuary within a brothel of united, ruthless women.
Jô Shishido
- Shintaro Ibuki
- (as Joe Shishido)
Chico Lourant
- Black Pastor
- (as Chico Roland)
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- TriviaIn an interview Seijun answered the question of the uniqueness of this film in relation to other B/Program pictures he made in the time: "The studio wanted to make a skin flick, that's all. We couldn't make a real porno back then, though."
- GoofsA downward shot pans across a crowd following a stretcher. When straight down, you see the shadow of the camera, crane and the camera operator.
- ConnectionsFeatured in From the Ruins: Making 'Gate of Flesh' (2005)
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Welcome to hell
An exploitation film with a brain. We see nude women tastefully lit, kinky violence - women beating other women and the low life of Tokyo outdoing each other in even more dastardly acts of treachery and heartless thuggery. The intelligence comes with the strong impact of the women dressing in vibrant red, purple, yellow and green to reflect their characters. Having the prostitutes live in a building that is an analogy for post-war Japan is even smarter. The building is bombed out, its occupants desperate, many have lost family in the war and for some the sight of people burned to death has made them individually heartless, desperate and mad. The fact that most of them live in the basement indicates that they have plummeted into the depths of hell. For cinema goers in Japan in 1964, just enjoying the fruits of the boom years for their rebuilt economy and also a new found pride and respectability, this must have been a sobering but also satisfying reminder of where they had been and how far they had come.
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- Oct 3, 2012
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- Nakito - Profis der Liebe
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- Nikkatsu Studios, Tokyo, Japan(Studio)
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