HORRORS OF MALFORMED MEN - BLU-ARROW VIDEO

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• Release Year: 1969
• Genre: Horror
• Plot: Cult director Teruo Ishii (Shogun’s Joy of Torture, Blind Woman’s Curse) presents a nightmarish, hallucinogenic tale drawn from the fevered imagination of Japan’s celebrated pioneer of ero-guro (“erotic grotesque”) literature, Edogawa Rampo.; ; Medical student Hirosuke Hitomi slips out of the asylum in which he has been wrongfully confined and stealthily assumes the identity of a recently deceased nobleman with whom he bears an uncanny resemblance. Hirosuke eases his way into the nobleman’s household and his dead double’s marital bed. But as long-repressed memories begin to bubble to the surface, he soon finds himself drawn to a remote isle where he is confronted by a mad scientist and his malformed men, and discovers the key that will unlock some long-suppressed mysteries of his own. ; ; A dark labyrinth of the monstrous and perverse that fuses mystery and horror while incorporating motifs from a myriad of Rampo's tales, Horrors of Malformed Men boasts astonishing carnivalesque art design and haunting performances. Withdrawn from cinemas by its own studio after its original scandalous release nearly fifty years ago, the film is among the very best screen interpretations of the author’s macabre brand of horror-fantasy fiction, and a unique oddity of Japanese cult cinema.
• Cast: Teruo Yoshida, Yukie Kagawa, Teruko Yumi, Mitsuko Aoi, Michiko Kobata, Yumiko Katayama, Kei Kiyama, Reiko Mikasa, Miki Obana, Michi Tanaka, Yoshiko Katô, Asano Kanamori, Yôko Koyama, Chiyo Okada, Mie Hanabusa, Masaomi Kondô, Misao Kawasaki, Yukio Miyagi, Isamu Tsuchihashi, Hideo Ayuba, Hideo Kô, Toshio Oida, Shôken Sawa, Akira Ôizumi, Tôru Yuri, Kichijirô Ueda, Tatsumi Hijikata, Asao Koike, Minoru Ôki, Kyômi Sakura, Teruo Ishii, Masahiro Kakefuda, Rampo Edogawa
• Director: Teruo Ishii
• Runtime: 1:39
• Company: Toei Company, Ltd., Arrow Films
• Media Format: Movie