The Blood Sword of the 99th Virgin
The most controversial film ever produced by Shintoho, Magatani Morihei’s horror thriller Bloody Sword Of The 99th Virgin (Kyujukyu-honme no Kimusume) is set in the mountains of Iwate Prefecture - a remote area that might be described as the Ozarks of Japan. The mountain folk are depicted as superstitious, blood-thirsty primitives, which struck traditionally discriminated-against locals and others in their community as discriminatory. Probably as a result, the film has been seldom screened in Japan but, contrary to some speculation, it has never been officially banned.
Casts & Crew
Bunta Sugawara
Masayuki Abe
Namiji Namiura
Azami
Yōko Mihara
Mieko Suzuki
Kyôko Yashiro
Kanako Oikawa
Shinji Suzuki
Fujikura
Katsuya Uda
Heisaku
Satoshi Komori
Genzo
Fujie Satsuki
Old woman
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