Cruel Map of Women's Bodies explained

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

• Book: Cowie. Peter. World Filmography 1967. 1977. Tantivy Press. London. 0-498-01565-3. 365. Japan.
• 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.
  • Web site: JOTAI ZANGYAKUZU. 2010-04-11. Complete Index to World Film.
• Book: Weisser, Thomas. Yuko Mihara Weisser. Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films. limited. 139. 1998. Vital Books : Asian Cult Cinema Publications. Miami. 1-889288-52-7.

Japanese

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

Notes and References

1. Infobox data from Web site: http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1967/cq003220.htm. ja:女体残虐図. 2010-04-11. Japanese. Japanese Movie Database.
2. Web site: JOTAI ZANGYAKUZU. 2010-04-11. Complete Index to World Film.
3. Book: Weisser, Thomas. Yuko Mihara Weisser. Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films. limited. 139. 1998. Vital Books : Asian Cult Cinema Publications. Miami. 1-889288-52-7.
4. Book: Cowie. Peter. World Filmography 1967. 1977. Tantivy Press. London. 0-498-01565-3. 365. Japan.
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. Web site: http://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/details/15363. ja:女体残虐図. 2010-04-11. Japanese Cinema Database (Agency for Cultural Affairs) . Japanese.
7. Weisser, p. 453.
8. Weisser, pp. 139, 452.