DVD & Blu-ray: LOVE & CRIME / MEIJI · TAISHO · SHOWA: RYOKI ONNA HANZAI-SHI (1969)

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Product Description: 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.

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Director: Teruo Ishii

Starring: Asao Koike, Junko Maki, Ken Sawaaki, Kenjirô Ishiyama

Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller

Runtime: 92 min

Rating: Not Rated

Language: Japanese

Studio: 88 Films

Home Video Release Date: January 21, 2025

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• Blu-ray + DVD

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• Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
• Resolution: 1080p
• Aspect Ratio: 2.39:1
• Region: Region A/1

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• Blu-ray: None

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• Blu-ray: LPCM 2.0

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• 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

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