There's only one meat treat that the dreaded candiru likes to eat, and only Japan would have the temerity to strap a vagina dentata to the end of a naughty tentacle. All this and more can be discovered through the highly educational sexploitation horror/comedy Sexual Parasite, also known by its more explicit original title…
It was sometime after I finished my recent OUSA column that I got to thinking about two things, one of which was wishing I had been able to get out a Gekiranger review. The other kicked in when I found myself looking back to my massive collection of Tokusatsu tapes and DVDs that take up a good chunk of my shelf space.
Sex & Fury (1973) is a wonderfully eclectic and insanely violent Japanese sexploitation flick directed by Norifumi Suzuki, the father of the sukeban subgenre and the same madman responsible for the later School of the Holy Beast (1976). His best- known film in the West is likely Shogun’s Ninja (1980).
Kinji Fukasaku’s original Graveyard of Honor (1975) is my favorite Japanese yakuza film ever. Just as Fukasaku was, to me, Japan’s own Martin Scorsese, Graveyard of Honor is basically the Japanese equivalent of Raging Bull. Both are films about a man’s downward spiral into oblivion and based on true stories.
