On June 23, 2025, 88 Films is releasing the Blu-ray (Region A/B) for 1988’s Gate of Flesh. Hideo Gosha (Sword of the Beast, Violent Streets, Yakuza Wives) brings a fresh eye to this oft-filmed story by Taijiro Tamura, best known from its 1964 adaptation by Seijun Suzuki, resulting in a powerful and compelling drama making its home premiere for the very first time outside of Japan courtesy of 88 Films.
In the shell-shocked, rubble-strewn wasteland of postwar Tokyo during the Allied Occupation, a group of prostitutes band to together to form a makeshift guild with the aim of pooling their resources to build a dancehall called Paradise. As their independent existence becomes threatened by the hawkish parade of gangsters, black marketeers and would-be pimps all looking for a cut from their flesh-peddling, the discovery of an unexploded bomb in the cavernous burned-out building where they ply their trade throws their dreams into further jeopardy.
Features:
- HIGH-DEFINITION BLU-RAY
- PRESENTATION IN 1.85:1 ASPECT RATIO
- ORIGINAL MONO AUDIO WITH NEW ENGLISH SUBTITLES
- AUDIO COMMENTARY BY AMBER T. AND JASPER SHARP
- BRAND NEW FILMED INTRODUCTION BY EARL JACKSON
- EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH TOEI TATTOO ARTIST SEIJI MOURI
- STILLS GALLERY
- TRAILER
- TEASER
- BOOKLET ESSAYS BY ROBIN GATTO AND IRENE GONZÁLEZ-LÓPEZ
- ORIGINAL AND NEWLY COMMISSIONED ARTWORK BY ILAN SHEADY
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