Angel Guts

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The films

# (1978, director: Chusei Sone): Kawashima, Kajima, and Sadakuni spend their days riding motorcycles and terrorizing/raping young girls. Kawashima is an overly protective brother to his little sister, Megu, who does not know about her brother's terrible activities. While out with Megu, Kawashima comes upon Kajima and Sadakuni, who are going to rape a school girl named Nami. Not wanting his sister to see what is happening, Kawashima stops them and tells Nami to head back home. This causes a rift among the friends and Kajima tells Kawashima that to make up for his transgression he must rape Nami. Kawashima soon finds himself in a difficult position as his friends further distant themselves and his sister is drawn into a bad situation.
# (1979, director: Chusei Sone): When Teruro, writer for a porn magazine, watches a "rape" porn that is set in a school he becomes obsessed with the lead actress and tries to find her. By chance as he arrives at a hotel for a shoot he meets the girl, working behind the reception desk. Her name is Nami, and reluctantly she agrees to discuss the possibility of working with him. When Nami takes Teruro to her room, she puts the moves on him, thinking he only wants her for sex. She confesses that she was actually raped in that film, and he tells her that he wants to help her.
# (1979, director: Noboru Tanaka): Nami is a reporter for a ladies' magazine. She has been writing articles about rape victims and how they have dealt with it. She goes to interview a stripper and views a strange sex show and leaves before the end, despite a weird mans insistence she stay. The next day, Nami visits another rape victim and takes pictures until she meets the man from the sex club. He claims to work for a porno publisher. He cautions Nami on her growing obsession with rape stories. Nami continues to dig deeper in her research and soon starts having fantasies of rape as she comes closer to a fate that could be worse than death.
# (1981, director: Toshiharu Ikeda)
# (1984, director: Hiroyuki Nasu)
# (1987, director: Junichi Suzuki)
# (1988, director: Takashi Ishii)
# (1994, director: Takashi Ishii)
# (1994, director: Takashi Ishii)

Availability

In 2005, the ArtsMagic company released a Region 1 five-DVD box containing the first four films in the series and the seventh ("Red Vertigo"). The films were presented in anamorphic widescreen in Japanese with removable subtitles. Among the extras contained in the set were commentaries on all films, original trailers, director interviews, and director and cast biographies. [cite web |url=http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=56640|title=Angel Guts: The Nikkatsu Series (DVD box review)|accessdate=2007-10-01|last=Gilvear|first=Kevin|publisher= [http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/ www.dvdtimes] |language=English]

Notes

References

* [http://www.artsmagicdvd.com/catalogue/expandedviews/angelguts.html Angel Guts Collection] 5 DVD boxset (ArtsMagic, 2005)
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