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Irezumi

1982 · 1h 42m · Romance, Drama

IMDb 7.1

Skip it. This obscure 1966 Japanese film trades on shock value and fetishization rather than genuine drama, and the premise—a woman mutilating her body to please a man—hasn't aged well. Unless you're a completist for avant-garde cinema or Japanese New Wave oddities, your time is better spent elsewhere.

Plot

To satisfy her lover's fetish for tattooed women, Akane agrees to have her body covered in eloborate tattoos by Kyogoro, an old craftsman. Kyogoro has developed a special technique, by which his assistant, Harutsune, keeps Katsuko's mind off the pain while Kyogoro does his work. After the work is done, Harutsune makes the shocking discovery of how Kyogoro mastered his technique.

Director: Yoichi Takabayashi

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama, Yūsuke Takita, Naomi Shiraishi, Harue Kyō, Masaki Kyomoto

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