Panik House promises Gincho Wataridori and more

by Chris and Kris   ⋅   September 10, 2006   ⋅   Comment now   ⋅    RSS

Panik House has just released a huge DVD announcement that should make Meiko Kaji, Teruo Ishii, and pinky violence fans alike smile with delight.

From the Panik House site:

Panik House is entering into a production partnership with Synapse Films to release seven more films from the Toei vaults. Five proto-Pinky Violence films and two films of a new genre: Pinky Horror!
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Which films you ask?

Let’s start with the Pinky Horror titles first:

Edogawa Ranpo Zenshu: Kyofu Kikei Ningen; aka Horror Of The Malformed Men
This is the most notorious film in the history of Japanese cinema. It has been banned since it’s release in 1969, and is the film that really cemented Teruo Ishii’s reputation as a master in the art of transgressive filmmaking. All rhetoric aside, this is one of the true classics of the era.

Kaidan Hebi-onna; aka Snake Woman’s Curse This was the first of the Pinky Horror films released by Toei. It was helmed by master director Nobuo Nakagawa, who has been called the Japanese Hitchcock, and Akemi Negishi (Sex & Fury, Lady Snowblood) stars.

This brings us to the two series that served as the protypes of the Pinky Violence films and were the direct inspiration for Sex & Fury and just about every female protagonist film to follow. There’s the three film Okatsu series, starring Junko Miyazuno, and the two Silver Butterfly films that launched icon of icons Meiko Kaji.

First and foremost, Gincho Wataridori (aka Wandering Ginza Butterfly) has arguably Meiko Kaji’s coolest theme song ever. Horror of Malformed Men I’ve long heard about but never had a chance to see. A very very cool announcement by Panik House.

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