Cruel Map of Women's Bodies

Cruel Map of Women's Bodies
Theatrical poster for Cruel Map of Women's Bodies (1967)
Directed by	Masanao Sakao[1]
Starring	Naomi Tani
Studio	Ōkura Eiga
Distributed by	Ōkura Eiga
Release date(s)	October 28, 1967
Running time	71 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Cruel Map of Women's Bodies (女体残虐図, Jotai Zangyakuzu^?) aka Female Bodies in a Brutal Scenario^[2] is a 1967 Japanese pink film directed by Masanao Sakao. It is significant for being future "S&M Queen" Naomi Tani's first starring role in a film dealing primarily with S&M.

Synopsis

Yōko is a young woman who is forced into prostitution by a yakuza gang. She repeatedly escapes from the gang, and is repeatedly captured, and repeatedly tortured at length.^[3][4][5]

Cast

• Naomi Tani as Yōko^[4]
• Sachiko Inoue
• Miki Hayashi as Harue
• Jōji Nagaoka as Asada
• Akio Shirakawa as Akagawa
• Sanpei Nawa as Aoki
• Hiroko Fuji

Background

Director Masanao Sakao filmed Cruel Map of Women's Bodies for Ōkura Eiga and it was released theatrically in Japan by that studio on October 28, 1967.^[6] Sakao made several films about prostitutes throughout his career.^[3] In Virgins With Bad Reputations (1967), he directed Naomi Tani again, as a former prostitute trying to escape her past.^[7] Sakao found his greatest success at Nihon Cinema studio with Virgins and Pimp (1968).^[8]

Actress Naomi Tani, who would become known as the "Queen" of S&M film had her first experience with cinematic S&M theme in director Kin'ya Ogawa's Memoirs Of A Modern Female Doctor (also 1967). However, Cruel Map of Women's Bodies was her first film which fully explored S&M as its central theme.^[3]

Bibliography

English

• Cowie, Peter (editor) (1977). "Japan". World Filmography 1967. London: Tantivy Press. p. 365. ISBN 0-498015-65-3. 
• Fentone, Steve (1998). "A Rip of the Flesh: The Japanese 'Pink Film' Cycle: Cruel Map of Women's Bodies". She; Japanese Sinema 2 (11): 10. 
• Jotai zangyakuzo (1968) at the Internet Movie Database
• "JOTAI ZANGYAKUZU". Complete Index to World Film. http://www.citwf.com/film176306.htm. Retrieved 2010-04-11. 
• Weisser, Thomas; Yuko Mihara Weisser (1998). Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films. Miami: Vital Books : Asian Cult Cinema Publications. p. 139. ISBN 1-889288-52-7. 

Japanese

• "女体残虐図" (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1967/cq003220.htm. Retrieved 2010-04-11. 
• "女体残虐図" (in Japanese). Japanese Cinema Database (Agency for Cultural Affairs). http://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/details/15363. Retrieved 2010-04-11. 

Notes

1. ^ Infobox data from "女体残虐図" (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1967/cq003220.htm. Retrieved 2010-04-11. 
2. ^ "JOTAI ZANGYAKUZU". Complete Index to World Film. http://www.citwf.com/film176306.htm. Retrieved 2010-04-11. 
3. ^ ^{a b c} Weisser, Thomas; Yuko Mihara Weisser (1998). Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films. Miami: Vital Books : Asian Cult Cinema Publications. p. 139. ISBN 1-889288-52-7. 
4. ^ ^{a b} Cowie, Peter (editor) (1977). "Japan". World Filmography 1967. London: Tantivy Press. p. 365. ISBN 0-498015-65-3. 
5. ^ Fentone, Steve (1998). "A Rip of the Flesh: The Japanese 'Pink Film' Cycle: Cruel Map of Women's Bodies". She; Japanese Sinema 2 (11): 10. 
6. ^ "女体残虐図" (in Japanese). Japanese Cinema Database (Agency for Cultural Affairs). http://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/details/15363. Retrieved 2010-04-11. 
7. ^ Weisser, p. 453.
8. ^ Weisser, pp. 139, 452.