Rape! 13th Hour

Rape 13th Hour , Rape 25ji Bkan? is a 1977 Japanese film in Nikkatsus Roman porno series, directed by Yasuharu Hasebe and with Yuri Yamashina. It has homosexual content.

Nikkatsu had started its SM line of Roman porno films in 1974 with the hits Flower and Snake and Wife to Be Sacrificed both featuring actress Naomi Tani and directed by Masaru Konuma. After this first highly successful venture into sexual violence, the studios output became increasingly rougher. According to director Yasuharu Hasebe, by 1976 the studio was looking for a new direction, and contacted him to develop films in a new style to be called Violent Pink. These would be comparable to the U.S. roughies film genre, violent and misogynistic, but without the whips, bondage and other traditional accoutrements of the SampM genre. Hasebe had worked with the studio in the 1960s during their Nikkatsu Action era, but was not comfortable with the pink film genre to which the studio had turned with the inception of the Roman porno series in 1971. Reluctant to work in the sex film genre, Hasebe later recalled warning the studio, Are you sure you want me?... You must be aware my craft is very bloody.Nikkatsu hired Hasebe, though, realizing that he might push the envelope of acceptability, the studio assigned producer Ryji It to watch over him. Hasebe had known It from his days with Nikkatsu in the 1960s, and they had worked well together. It had been Hasebes assistant director on the Alleycat Rock series. In 1976 Hasebe turned out the first two Violent Pink films, Rape and Assault Jack the Ripper. Due to the boxoffice success of these films, Nikkatsu assigned him more work in the genre. The third in Hasebes Violent Pink films, Rape 13th Hour has a reputation as the most extreme of the series. Nervous about the films graphic violence, Nikkatsu reedited it before giving it a theatrical release. Nevertheless, the Weissers write that the released version is graphically disturbing, incredibly savage, offensively appalling, and that it was longconsidered the most offensive, the most grotesque movie of all time. Hasebe lat

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