Love and Crime | Blu-ray (88 Films)
RELEASE DATE: January 21, 2025
On January 21, 2025, 88 Films is releasing the Blu-ray (Region A) for Love and Crime, a 1969 Japanese cult thriller from director Teruo Ishii (Blind Woman’s Curse).
Japan’s legendary “King of Cult” Teruo Ishii (Horrors of Malformed Men, Shogun’s Joy of Torture) delivers four dramatized tales of real-life crimes of passion involving women across the ages in this grotesque anthology featuring the stories of the “Hotel Nihonkaku Murders”, the notorious “poison wife” and last woman in Japan to be executed by beheading, Oden Takahashi, the brutal serial killer Yoshio Kodaira and the story of Sada Abe, the infamous castratice featured in Nagisa Oshima’s In the Realm of the Senses.
88 Films is proud to present this unflinching look at female pathology drawn from Japan’s criminal casebooks for the very first time outside Japan.
Features:
- INCLUDES LIMITED EDITION NUMBERED OBI STRIP
- INCLUDES BOOKLET WITH NOTES FROM NATHAN STUART
- High definition blu-ray presentation in 2.35:1 aspect ratio
- Original mono 2.0 audio with new English subtitles
- Audio commentary by Jasper Sharp & Amber T.
- Brand new filmed introduction by Mark Schilling
- Stills gallery
- Trailer
- Original and newly commissioned artwork by Ilan Sheady
- Limited edition individually numbered obi strip
- Limited edition booklet
This title will soon be available at The Goodie Emporium, a U.S.-based online store that currently has many Import Shaw Brothers/Golden Harvest/martial arts DVD/Blu-ray movies in-stock – with New titles being added regularly!
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