Reipu 25-ji: Bôkan / Rape! 13th Hour (1977)

Storyline A man sporting a red jacket seeks shelter at the gas station where he works. He is an anonymous serial rapist known as "Crimson" and is fleeing a vigilante group which has been pursuing him. "Crimson" and the younger gas station attendant later leave together and attack and rape a young ballerina. The incident has a life-altering effect on the younger man, who has now become addicted to rape. He also goes on a raping spree, and is joined with "Crimson" for further attacks. Together the men rape waitresses in an abandoned movie theater. Due to the inability of the police to catch the criminals, vigilante groups have been pursuing "Crimson". Eventually the duo are tracked down, captured, and taken to an empty swimming pool by a homosexual gang. There the gang sodomizes "Crimson", bashes out his teeth with a hammer, and forces him to perform fellatio on them In spite of the film's box-office success, it became highly controversial with the public and with critics. The controversy surrounding the film was similar to that in the U.S. following the release of I Spit on Your Grave a year later in 1978. Because of the outcry over the film, Nikkatsu ordered that the extreme violence in future. Over twenty years after the first release of the film, Japanese critics held the film in high regard, with Kinema Jumpo placing it on their 1999 list of the 200 best Japanese films of the 20th century.

Language: japanese
Subtitles: english

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