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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 ofero-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 Withdrawn from cinemas by its own studio after its original scandalous release nearly fifty years ago, the film is among the very best screen interpretations of the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.
Special Features
- Brand new 2K restoration of the film from the original negative
- High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentation
- Uncompressed mono 1.0 PCM audio
- Newly translated optional English subtitles
- Two audio commentaries by Japanese cinema experts Tom Mes and Mark Schilling
- Malformed Movies: a new video interview with Toei exploitation movie screenwriter Masahiro Kakefuda
- Malformed Memories: Filmmakers Shinya Tsukamoto (Tetsuo the Iron Man) and Minoru Kawasaki (The Calamari Wrestler) on the career of director Teruo Ishii
- Ishii in Italia: Ishii and Mark Schilling visit the Far East Film Festival
- Image Gallery
- Theatrical trailer
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Dan Mumford
- Arrow Video
- 99 minutes
- 18
- Japanese
- 1
- Arrow Video
- Teruo Ishii
- Teruo Yoshida
- Yukie Kagawa
- Teruko Yumi
- Mitsuko Aoi
- English SDH
- 1969
- B
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Arrow Films
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 ofero-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.
Special Features
- Brand new 2K restoration of the film from the original negative
- High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentation
- Uncompressed mono 1.0 PCM audio
- Newly translated optional English subtitles
- Two audio commentaries by Japanese cinema experts Tom Mes and Mark Schilling
- Malformed Movies: a new video interview with Toei exploitation movie screenwriter Masahiro Kakefuda
- Malformed Memories: Filmmakers Shinya Tsukamoto (Tetsuo the Iron Man) and Minoru Kawasaki (The Calamari Wrestler) on the career of director Teruo Ishii
- Ishii in Italia: Ishii and Mark Schilling visit the Far East Film Festival
- Image Gallery
- Theatrical trailer
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Dan Mumford
- Arrow Video
- 99 minutes
- 18
- Japanese
- 1
- Arrow Video
- Teruo Ishii
- Teruo Yoshida
- Yukie Kagawa
- Teruko Yumi
- Mitsuko Aoi
- English SDH
- 1969
- B
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The film is a little bit out there sometimes.
Arrow gave a great edition of the film.
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Embrace the deformities
This film drew me in with its absurd, deformed looking practical effects and make-up that i've seen in pictures, and it delivered just that. Story tastes of family drama with a side dish of malformed men. The main course is definitely not the craziness in this tale, make no mistake. At its heart, family problems out the wazoo. I didn't expect it and expected longer term craziness. Didn't get that but hey it's still a great film!
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