Toei Video to show banned scenes on the internet

[Miles Wood]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Brown" <the8thsamurai at hotmail.com>
To: <kinejapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 9:27 AM
Subject: Toei Video to show banned scenes on the internet


> Toei Video, producers and distributors of Ishii Takashi's sexual torture
> opus "Hana to Hebi," are to make available footage cut from the film by
> censors via a pay-per-view website.
>
> The sixth film adaptation of the book by Dan Oniroku, "Hana to Hebi" stars
> Sugimoto Aya and features copious nudity, S&M, bondage and more. Japanese
> censorship organisation Eirin demanded that several small cuts be made to
> the film due to its many scenes containing full-frontal nudity and
exposure
> of pubic hair, and subsequently gave the pared-down version an R18 rating.

So does this account for a seeming 75 minute difference between the rt
reported on this list for the version shown in Berlin and the Toei DVD?

And assuming Nikkatsu RomanPornos, not to mention the millions of AV's out
there, are also subject to Eirin's approval, why can they get away with
showing what Ishii cannot? I'm a little puzzled....

Miles