Bijo no harawata (1986)

User Rating:

5.4/10   

Director:

Kazuo 'Gaira' Komizu

Writer:

Kazuo 'Gaira' Komizu (writer)

Release Date:

23 September 1986 (Japan)

Genre:

Fantasy | Horror | Thriller

Plot:

A tortured and raped young girl mutates into a penis-headed demon and mutilates her captors.

Plot Keywords:

Gangster | Demon | Corpse | Hermaphrodite | Revenge

Cast

Megumi Ozawa	...	Hiromi
Ayako Ishii
Seira Kitagawa	...	Yoshimi
Ken Yoshizawa	...	Yoshioka
Shinji Sekikawa
Kazuhiro Sano
Yoshinari Yoshie
Kimiya Kôdagawa

Directed by
Kazuo 'Gaira' Komizu		(as Gaira)

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Kazuo 'Gaira' Komizu		writer

Produced by
Hiroshi Hanzawa	....	producer
Toshio Satô	....	producer: Rokugatsu Gekijô
Kimihiro Taniguchi	....	producer

Original Music by
Yôichi Takahashi

Cinematography by
Eiichi Ôsawa

Film Editing by
Junichi Kikuchi

Production Design by
Masami Kobayashi

Makeup Department
Yûichi Matsui	....	special makeup effects artist

Special Effects by
Nobuaki Koga	....	special effects supervisor

Camera and Electrical Department
Toshiyuki Awaji	....	lighting technician

Production Companies

• Rokugatsu Gekijô

Distributors

• Asian Cult Cinema (video)
• Japan Shock Video & Film Distribution
• Nikkatsu
• Synapse Films (2004) (USA) (DVD)

Also Known As:

Entrails of a Beautiful Woman (USA) (DVD title)
Guts of a Beauty (video title)
Guts of a Virgin 2

Runtime:

68 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Canada:18+ (Quebec)

Company:

Rokugatsu Gekijô

Movie Connections:

Follows Shojo no harawata (1986)

Sloppy, inept horror

Kazuo Komizu, who hasn't made one decent film, directed this "notorious" shocker and should be ashamed that it was a hit upon its Japanese release.

Yes, it does feature scenes of rape, gore and dismemberment, but so what? It has the style of a bad American porn film shot and badly photographed by Ed Powers ("Dirty Debutantes") and is incredibly slow.

It seems to have earned its notoriety based on its roster of anti-social acts.

There is a huge difference between this and horror that is well produced.

Just because someone likes their cinema a little wet does not mean they'll accept crap like this. On the contrary, that kind of fan (myself, for example) tolerates even less crap than the average punter out there because he's seen so much and has become overly discerning. It's a shame production companies don't realize that.

One reviewer here (ZombieKilla81) commented that the film's "near obsession with gang rape" is one of the factors that killed it. I disagree. The subject matter is never the issue. The issue is how that subject matter is treated. In ENTRAILS OF A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN, it is treated so unimaginatively that it is boring.

Personally, I like graphic depictions of psychopathic behavior (with an intriguing context) if the material is well directed, freshly photographed and aesthetically pleasing. This Nikkatsu horror/pink hybrid is woeful.