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    Blind Woman's Curse

    Teruo ISHII 1970 Japan Fiction color 84min DCP
    The tattooed leader of a band of yakuza and her gang become targets of supernatural vengeance after she accidentally blinds a woman in an epic gang war. Genre master Teruo Ishii adds his signature erotic-grotesque elements to the story, creating the best and only female swordsplay-cum-ghost cat horror film ever made.

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    Teruo ISHII

    Known as the “king of cult” in Japan, Teruo ISHII is an eclectic filmmaker whose oeuvre is a mirror of the Japanese film industry in the 1960s and 1970s and whose stylistic mastery of the “erotic-grotesque” sub-genre inspired the aestheticization of violence in films of auteur directors such as Takashi MIIKE and Quentin TARANTINO.

    Teruo ISHII

    1999: Screwed
    1993: TsugeYoshiharu World: Gensenkan Shujin 
    ​1970: Blind Woman’s Curse
    1969: The Friendly Killer
    1969: Horrors of Malformed Men 
    1965: “Abashiri Prison” Series 
    1963: Showa Ninkyoden
    1958: White Line
    1957: King of the Ring: The World of Glory

     

     

    Directer: Teruo Ishii
    Screenplay: Teruo Ishii & Yoshitada Sone
    Cinematography: Shigeru Kitaizumi
    Music: Hajime Kaburagi

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