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The Joys of Torture Collection

Films in Toei's The Joys of Torture series, all directed by Teruo Ishii.

Tokugawa: Woman's Genealogy poster
5.7

A tragic love story involving the 5th Shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty and a woman who became one of his concubines.

Tokugawa: Woman's Genealogy

1968

Shogun's Joy of Torture poster
5.6

A young magistrate recalls three tales of heinous crimes committed by women, and the brutal punishments that ensued.

Shogun's Joy of Torture

1968

Orgies of Edo poster
5.9

Three stories of moral sickness set during Japan’s prosperous Genroku era are told in this bloody follow-up to the sexploitation classic Shogun’s Joy of Torture, the politically incorrect moral lessons paint a trio of tales of tragic heroines caught up in violence, sadomasochism, incest and torture.

Orgies of Edo

1969

Shameless: Abnormal and Abusive Love poster
6.3

A Japanese woman is raped by her boyfriend day in day out.

Shameless: Abnormal and Abusive Love

1969

Inferno of Torture poster
5.7

Japan nineteenth century. High demand for tattooed geisha generates an entire industry for their "production". Europeans pay more for tattooed beauties. Against this background, and considering the gorgeous tattooed women develop the history of confrontation between two highly skilled masters of tattoo.

Inferno of Torture

1969

Yakuza Law poster
6.1

A story of yakuza lynching during the Edo, Meiji, and Showa periods.

Yakuza Law

1969

Love and Crime poster
7.2

Discover 4 famous Japanese murderers: Takahashi Oden, the last woman beheaded in Japan, Sada Abe, a crazy lover, Kunihiko Kodaira, a rapist-killer and finally, the Toyokaku case, a woman who did everything to own a hotel.

Love and Crime

1969

Oxen Split Torturing poster
5.8

Two short stories set in Edo during the Shogun era. The first, during a time when Christians are persecuted vehemently, Iori falls in love with a young Christian girl. When she and her family are captured during a raid, his sadistic master takes her as his personal slave to torment Iori. The second follows Sutezo who, forced to serve the barbarous master of a brothel in order to repay his debts, befriends a young girl. Together, they both escape and struggle to get by on scams and petty theft.

Oxen Split Torturing

1976