New Torture Punishment History Torture

Three stories of torture, set in Japan's Sengoku, Kan'ei and Genroku eras.

Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets

An experimental, psychedelic odyssey through Japanese subculture experienced via the eyes of a disillusioned young man, who must contend with intense familial dysfunction, psychosexual alienation, and existentialist malaise.

Dai san no jôji

Pinku from 1965.

The Trial

An experimental short featuring people and nails.

Love Awakening

A thirty-year-old lesbian virgin sleeps with a man for the first time.

Perverse Relations

A doctor, gynecologist, discover the corpse of his wife. His nurse advises to him to declare her death a simple heart attack, to clear himself without the slightest doubt. He refuses and calls the police force there. The interrogation of the doctor, then other witnesses, slowly reveals the truth of her demise…