Ankoku Butoh is a style of avant-garde dance that established itself in the counter culture experimental arts scene of post WWII Japan. The dance form is thought to have been founded by Tatsumi Hijikata, who both created and performed in butoh pieces from the late 1950’s - through the early 1970’s. In butoh, the style of movement is extremely stylized and deliberate, vacillating between slow and sharp, expressing feelings of dread, sexualization, violence, calmness, birth and “creatureness” among other things. This 1973 performance of Summer Storm at Kyoto University was Hijikata’s last public performance before his death in 1986.
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.
Situado en el período Tokugawa (o Edo), es la primera de las películas de la Serie los placeres de la Tortura de Teruo Ishii. Esta primera película retrata una sucesión de mujeres que son decapitadas, quemadas vivas en la hoguera y partidas en dos por bueyes. La película adopta un enfoque acrónimo de tres historias cortas que todo culminará en largas sesiones de tortura.
