Hiroaki Kawatsure, Tsugumi Nagasawa, Shigeo Ôsako

A young couple Aki (Tsugumi Nagasawa) and Kazuo (Hiroaki Kawatsure) are abducted by a peverse sadist named Tachikawa who ties them both up in his basement. When they wake up they find themselves bound...( read more  read more... ) and gagged in a torture chamber style basement. So begins a slow and sustained assault on the captives. The couple is gradually hacked, mutilated and degraded. If either of them happens to pass out from the intense pain, he revives them with smelling salts before going back to work. Death becomes a more desirable option to living. Or is it? When one captive is offered the chance to die in order to save the life of the other, the question of how far one would go for a loved one is answered in the most unpleasant of ways.

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Unrated, 73 min

Directed by: Kôji Shiraishi

Release Date: January 17, 2009

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DVD Release Date: August 17, 2009

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  • August 28, 2009
    I watched this and thought it was fine except for the special effects that appeared flown in from a third party. I don't see what all the fuss is about. It's about a guy with a pretty hardcore sexual fetish. There's your motivation. It's shot pretty well, except for the sfx, it's...( read more) nicely colored, and it's acted pretty well. The creepy guy is wonderfully subdued and methodical and the JAV girl has a decent scene toward the end, up until her head flies off. All in all it seemed less pretentious than a lot of other torture porn I've seen and less offensive than some CAT III films I've seen. It's not real and it's Japanese. No big whoop.
  • December 3, 2009
    disappointing... wasted time!!!
  • October 25, 2009
    24/10/09
    "Welcome to a Japanese Nightmare."
    One of the strangest movie I've ever seen.I do not know what is it but It is not a movie.
  • October 24, 2009
    Really sick. The ending was dumb though.
  • October 13, 2009
    Personally, I laugh when I hear a Japanese film being billed as "influenced by Hostel" when Hostel itself was just a genre rip-off of much better films the Japanese have been making for over 20 years. Another movie of wall-to-wall torture scenes.
  • September 24, 2009
    This freak movie is completely sick! I'm a fan of saw, i like hostel but this one wasn't anything like them, it was just disgusting.
  • September 16, 2009
    I skimmed through it and I really didn't have to pay attention to know it has no story.
  • September 13, 2009
    A young couple Aki (Tsugumi Nagasawa) and Kazuo (Hiroaki Kawatsure) are abducted by a peverse sadist named Tachikawa who ties them both up in his basement. When they wake up they find themselves bound and gagged in a torture chamber style basement. So begins a slow and sustained ...( read more)assault on the captives. The couple is gradually hacked, mutilated and degraded. If either of them happens to pass out from the intense pain, he revives them with smelling salts before going back to work. Death becomes a more desirable option to living. Or is it? When one captive is offered the chance to die in order to save the life of the other, the question of how far one would go for a loved one is answered in the most unpleasant of ways.
  • September 7, 2009
    This movie is completely aweful! I have just one word to describe it: DISGUSTING!

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