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Film Review: Angel Guts: Red Flash (1994) by Takashi Ishii
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Also known as “Angel Guts: Red Lightning” and “Angel Guts 6”, “Angel Guts: Red Flash” is the sixth installment in the series based on Takashi Ishii‘s manga. Ishii wrote the scripts for all entries and directed the last two.

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The story here is notably labyrinthine. Nami, a photographer for a magazine, is assigned to capture stills from an erotic movie that features intense rape scenes. During one sequence involving a teacher and a schoolgirl, she becomes increasingly disturbed, recalling a similar trauma from her past. She flees the set after Muraki, the editor of the movie, tries to comfort her, only for her to realize he resembles her past assailant. She seeks solace with her lesbian bartender friend Chihiro, and the two sleep together. The next day, however, Nami visits her again and finds another woman in her apartment.
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  • 6/23/2025
  • by Panos Kotzathanasis
  • AsianMoviePulse
Love Hotel: Shinji Somai’s Most Notable Thematic Departure, a New Restoration of his 1985 Pink Film
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Beginning Friday, April 4, Love Hotel, a pinku classic from Shinji Somai newly restored by the Nikkatsu Corporation and making its first-ever North American theatrical release, opens for an exclusive one-week NY theatrical run at Metrograph In Theater.

Somai, who had been an assistant director at Nikkatsu in the 1970s when Roman Porno sex films became the studio’s stock-in-trade, made his only directorial effort in the genre with this disarmingly poignant, elegantly shot entry into the pinku eiga canon from a script by Takashi Ishii – he later reworked it into his own 1988 Angel Guts: Red Vertigo – which stars Minori Terada as a spiraling ex-businessman who, having squandered his fortune and his dignity and brought terrible suffering upon his wife, hires a sex worker to share what he intends to be his final night on earth at a hot sheets love hotel. A Cinema Guild release.

The new restoration of Love Hotel...
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  • 3/27/2025
  • by Suzie Cho
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Film Review: Love Hotel (1985) by Shinji Somai
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In 1985, director Shinji Somai (“Typhoon Club) would make his only entry within Nikkatsu's Roman porno line titled “Love Hotel”. While there are distinct dips in quality in the studio's series, Somai's contribution may be considered one of the best, touching upon a wide array of topics such as toxic relationships and suicide. Japanese critics also thought highly of the movie as it won five awards at the 7th Yokohama Film Festival and also an in-house award at Nikkatsu for Best Film of the Year.

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The story begins with Tetsuro (Minori Terada) whose life has gone downhill due to his huge debts and loaning money from the yakuza. After his office had to be closed down he feels he has hit rock bottom and decides to do something crazy. He checks into a love hotel and books a girl (Noriko Hayami) for the night,...
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  • 4/15/2024
  • by Rouven Linnarz
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