Bijo no harawata

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0224102/
a.k.a. Guts of a Beauty or Guts of a Virgin 2 or Entrails of a beautiful woman
The local yakuza gang are selling and using a drug called Angel rain. Beside that, they rape and sell sexslaves to another gang in the Phillipines.













A woman has managed to escape though and after meeting Hiromi (Megumi Ozawa) who is working as a psychiatric, she comits suicide.
Hiromi now plans for a revenge, but as in Xue mei gui, a review will be posted here later on, revenge can turn against you in a nasty way.

Gaira once again writes and directs a movie with a beast/monsters and some rapes. Bijo no harawata is the second in the infamous harawata trilogy. The first 2 came out 1986, the third; Gômon kifujin a.k.a. Rusted Body: Guts of a Virgin III or Female Inquisitor as the European title was, came out 1987. They don´t have so much to do with eachother beside the same writer/director and that they have plenty of nasty sex scenes.

During the gangrape of Hiromi we hear one of the most memorable quotes in history.
- I am ashamed we belong to the same human race.
- Then you can stop being a human. I´ll personally dig your grave. You ruined our artwork. I will rip your ass to shreds.

The quote itself is fantastic and, so to speak - stands alone - but in contrast to what is happening later on, it must be considered as one of the best metaphoric quotes of all time. You will understand when you see the movie, becouse if you allready haven´t, rape or not, this is a movie that are a must have in any ones collection.



On the minus account however Bijo as much as Shojo no harawata has some strange voice dubbing to it, but that is basicly all I can ” complain ” on.
The acting is great, the rape scene is disturbing, all though it doesn´t reach the ugliness as in more well known movies such as cannibal holocaust - wich by the way are hard to top.

Bijo no harawata, as stated above came out in 1986, 1 year after that an englishman named Clive Barker made his debut with a classic called Hellraiser. What has that got to do with Bijo you might wonder. Well after seeing Bijo no harawata, I think I know where Barker got his inspiration from the attic scene - where Larry is being reborn so to speak.
The way that the drug is visualy displayed are for its time really impressive.
There are many things to say about Bijo no harawata, but I will only use 2 words; Buy it!














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We sold your sister in Africa. Higashi arranged it all.
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Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I50FEoFzXyQ

The us poster