Slave Widow

Infobox Film
name = Slave Widow


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caption = Cover to the region-1 DVD release
director = Mamoru Watanabe (as Yuzuru Watanabe)
producer =
writer = Mamoru Watanabe
starring = Noriko Tatsumi
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distributor = Mutsukuni Eiga / Chuo Eiga
released = July 11, 1967
runtime = 73 minutes
country = Japan
language = Japanese
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amg_id = 1:429458
imdb_id = 0128167

nihongo|"Slave Widow"|奴隷未亡人|Dorei mibojin is a 1967 Japanese "Pink film" directed by Hiroshi Mukai and starring Noriko Tatsumi. Along with the first "Queen" of Japanese soft-core pornography, the film's cast includes Mari Imai and an early appearance by Naomi Tani, two other major stars of "pink film".

ynopsis

When a woman's husband dies leaving her with a large debt, the widow becomes the sexual slave of his largest creditor and his son. [Buchanan, Jason. " [http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:429458 Slave Widow] ". Allmovie. Retrieved on May 30, 2008.]

Cast

* Noriko Tatsumi... Mitsuko [Cast listing from Cowie, Peter (editor). "Dorei Mibôjin" in "Japan" in "World Filmography 1967" (1977). Tantivy Press, London. ISBN 0-498015-65-3. p.351.]
* Masayoshi/Seigi Nogami... Kazuhiko, son of Kito
* Mari Iwai... Maya, the maid
* Tadashi Oizumi... Kito
* Naomi Tani... Mariko

Availability

Harry Novak released "Slave Widow" theatrically in the United States through his Boxoffice International Pictures distribution company.cite journal |last=Fentone|first=Steve|year=1998|title=Slave Widow; A Rip of the Flesh: The Japanese 'Pink Film' Cycle|journal=She|volume=2|issue=11|pages=p.10] The film was again available to U.S. audiences in the late 1990s in a videotape release by Something Weird Video. The film was released on region-1 DVD by Gregory Hatanaka's Cinema Epoch label on April 1, 2008. Though the DVD release contains no extras significant to the film, the trailer to "Slave Widow" is available on Something Weird Video's release of Kōji Wakamatsu's "The Notorious Concubines" (1969). [ [http://www.dvdmaniacs.net/review.php?id=230 Slave Widow (DVD review)] (English). [http://www.dvdmaniacs.net/ www.dvdmaniacs.net] . Retrieved on July 8, 2008.]

Following the DVD release, on May 9 and May 11, 2008, Portland, Oregon's Clinton Street Theater played "Slave Widow" on a double-bill with Hiroshi Mukai's "The Bite" (1966), previously considered a lost film. [ [http://www.clintonsttheater.com/calendar.html#JAPANESE JAPANESE SEXPLOITATION DOUBLE FEATURE - May 9 & 11] (English). [http://www.clintonsttheater.com/ The Clinton Street Theater] . Retrieved on May 24, 2008.]

Notes

ources

* Barrett, Michael. [http://www.popmatters.com/pm/film/reviews/58144/slave-widow/ "Slave Widow"] (English). [http://www.popmatters.com/ PopMatters] , May 8, 2008. Retrieved on May 24, 2008.
* Buchanan, Jason. " [http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:429458 Slave Widow] ". Allmovie.
* Cowie, Peter (editor). "Dorei Mibôjin" in "Japan" in "World Filmography 1967" (1977). Tantivy Press, London. ISBN 0-498015-65-3. p.351.
* [http://www.citwf.com/film92709.htm "Dorei Mibojin" / "Slave Widow"] (English). [http://www.citwf.com/indexx.asp Complete Index to World Film] . Retrieved on May 24, 2008.
* [http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1967/cq002060.htm 奴隷未亡人] ("Dorei mibojin") at Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved on May 24, 2008.
* Loomis, Daryl. [http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/slavewidow.php "Slave Widow"] (English). [http://www.dvdverdict.com/ DVD Verdict] , April 10, 2008. Retrieved on May 24, 2008.
* Wallis, John. [http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/32794/slave-widow/ "Slave Widow"] (English). [http://www.dvdtalk.com/ DVD Talk] , March 28, 2008. Retrieved on May 24, 2008.
* Weisser, Thomas and Yuko Mihara Weisser. (1998). "Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films". Vital Books : Asian Cult Cinema Publications, Miami. ISBN 1-889288-52-7. pp.394-395.