Eros in Hell: Sex, Blood & Madness in Japanese Cinema

by Jack Hunter

Table of Contents ??Pink a brief history of japanese porno
?Pop Avant-Garde the films of koji wakamatsu
? the joys of torture
?Ai No in the realm of the senses
?Abnormal the secret cinema of hisayasu sato
? sex, slaughter, sacrifice
?Garbage the wild world of takao nakano
?Punk notes on the japanese underground?

Genres: Film, Japan, Nonfiction, Horror, Japanese Literature, Media Tie In

232 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1999

Reviews

[Tosh · Rating 5 out of 5]

A good survey of underground or weird Japanese cinema from the 70's and onward. It's a good book to dip your big toe into the hot bath of Japanese film. Also finally there are DVD's coming out of this period, so it's a good chance one can now locate these films on DVD. But it has to be a really cool DVD store!

[Hagar · Rating 4 out of 5]

Tokyo decadence in extremis

[Skyler Wolf · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you are looking for what is essentially an encyclopedia on the deepest, darkest, grossest depths of pinku eiga, Hunter's volume is perfect. If you're looking for any kind of analysis of the themes of horror pinku, you're not going to get much. Hunter occasionally has a REALLY interesting tidbit, something he could write a page or two about, and he just kinda doesn't and opts for a single sentence instead. Opted more for a high three but considering Hunter is one of the first non-Japanese academics to study this area I do find the text pretty groundbreaking.

[Zac Hawkins · Rating 5 out of 5]

A quiet simply magnificent resource for the Japanese avant-garde and underground film scene. Seen my fair share of the oddities detailed within but have even more to check out and will do so as soon as possible.

[Steve Rincon · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an incredibly exhaustive book on Japanese 'Pinku Eiga' or 'pink movies.' Get this, if you can find an affordable copy!

[Perry Ruhland · Rating 5 out of 5]

Magnificent.

[Egghead · Rating 5 out of 5]

only flaw in book
is that it's overwhelming
watchlist grows quickly