Rent Irezumi (1966)
3.6 of 5 from 67 ratings
1h 25min
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- Synopsis:
- This bold, erotic costume thriller spits and scratches at the face of tradition and propriety with bad-mannered fury. A beautiful and strong-headed young woman from a middle-class merchant family is abducted into geisha work and forcibly tattooed with the image of a fearsome spider. Hell-bent on avenging herself on every man who makes a play for her, she takes advantage of her situation to wreak bloody vengeance. Garish and perverse and gleefully proud of it, and striking in its linking of sexuality and violence, the film is also infused with wonderful black humour and a visual style and beauty that is astonishing.
- Actors:
- Ayako Wakao, Akio Hasegawa, Gaku Yamamoto, Kei Satô, Fujio Suga, Reiko Fujiwara, Asao Uchida, Kikue Môri, Jun Fujikawa, Tadashi Iwata, Gen Kimura, Kazuo Moriuchi, Shôzô Nanbu, Kimiko Tachibana
- Directors:
- Yasuzô Masumura
- Writers:
- Kaneto Shindô, Jun'ichirô Tanizaki
- Studio:
- Yume Pictures
- Genres:
- Drama, Thrillers
- Countries:
- Japan
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 21/06/2021
- Run Time:
- 86 minutes
- Languages:
- Japanese Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.35:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Brand new audio commentary by Japanese cinema scholar David Desser
- Newly filmed introduction by Japanese cinema expert Tony Rayns
- Out of the Darkness, a brand new visual essay by Asian cinema scholar Daisuke Miyao
- Original Trailer
- Image Gallery
