Female revenge movie.

[J.sharp]

Just checking from the jmdb, it seems that director Onoda wasn't
particularly prolific - he made about 14 films for Shintoho in the late 50s
but his career stalled when the company went bankrupt in 1961. Unlike
several of his Shintoho contemporaries, he never followed the company
president Mitsugi Okura into the world of the eroduction, and his next
feature wasnt until 1995.

>From his Shintoho films, he made one of the Queen Bee films starring glamour
girl Michiko Maeda, but for me the most interesting title from his CV is his
first film, the only one of Shintoho's ama or girl diver films I havent been
able to see (is it a lost film?), the intriguingly sounding Cannibal Girl
Diver (Hitogui Ama) from 1958, also with Maeda in it.

Jasper


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From: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: Female revenge movie.
Date: 15/06/06 04:30

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> Anybody seen Onna Doreisen from 1960 (Female Slave Ship) by Yoshimoto
Onoda&nbsp;with no less than Bunta Sagawara and Tetsuro Tamba. It's probably
one of the first sexy girl revenge movie. It reminded me of that famous
Sasori series (Scorpion Female Prisoner with Meiko Kaji) but only 12 years
earlier.&nbsp; Not a great film but an interesting one. I was also wondering
if this director made other films, obviously I cannot rely on the good ol'
IMDB for asian films as usual.
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> I also got my hands on a copy of Teruo Ishii's notorious Edogawa ranpo
taizen: Kyofu kikei ningen&nbsp; (Horror of a Deformed Man). Thanks to my
Japanese director friend who is a fan of Ishii's work. Ok my copy didn't
have any subtitles but I wasnt that blown away by the imagery as Tom Mes
would suggest in his review from Midnight Eye
(http://www.midnighteye.com/reviews/horrmalf.shtml). I think he went over
the top by saying: " Yet, it is beautiful, haunting and oneiric; it is the
closest one can come to a dreamlike experience without closing one's eyes."
Yes it is somehow but it's like watching some modern dance and body
painting. I think a
> movie like Holy Mountain would me closer from that description of
"dreamlike experience without closing one's&nbsp;eyes".
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> Still, I was happy to see that movie but I dont think it's that much
incredible as it suggested. If you want a Japanese film with a "dreamlike
experience without closing one's&nbsp;eyes" I suggest Hausu (House) 1977,
from Nabuhiko Obayashi. A truly strange film with amazing techniques and
mood.
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> Mathieu St-Pierre
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