Beauty's Exotic Dance: Torture!
A somewhat liberal adaptation of the life of painter Shuu Ito, the film focuses on his sexual torture of two wives and a prostitute. Ito chronicles the sessions in journals, shares his pseudo-Sadean philosophy, and drives women mad with equal hell-bent intensity.
Noboru Tanaka
Director
Casts & Crew
Also Directed by Noboru Tanaka
Roman Porno from 1974, focusing on the daily life of lower-class individuals in the slums of Osaka.
Roman Porno from 1973.
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