Women's Flesh: My Red Guts

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Well, that was a quintology nobody ever needed. First movie was okay fun, everything else that followed should've been binned immediately. Each of them starts with a recap of previous films, with the recap getting longer and longer until it's over ten minutes in this one, and the actual contents is barely over an hour. SUICIDE DOLLS comes from Tamakichi Anaru and it's certainly a step down from his previous two films. This one here lasts a few minutes shy of an hour and for the most part it gives each character a brief identification and then that leads us to the final act. Not good but if the entire movie was that ending scene where all the crying toy dolls get up and fight each other while powernoise plays, then that would probably be a five star movie for me. tales of suicide from the director of the notorious Tumbling Doll of Flesh! This doesn’t come close to that films level of horror and nihilism but it certainly tries. just wanted to note that everything on this tier, apart from the briefly mentioned Animal Farm, was on Letterboxd - "I don't want to host this show no mo'."]

today's dinner is spaghetti" is the only good thing to come out of this movie. how this series started as feminist-ish and then became hardcore incel gospel is beyond me. and why did i watch 5, and why am i mad i can't find the 6thWriter/director Tamakichi Anaru (Japanese for “anal”) cemented a spot for himself in the annals of extreme cinema with his 1998 debut Tumbling Doll of Flesh (or Niku Daruma). Long before the glut of so-called “torture P*rn” that continues to constipate the horror genre, Tamakichi fused the two acts into a sadistic misogynist’s wet dream. The first half of the film offers hardcore P*rn; in the second half, the unwitting actress is molested, tortured and finally killed – by the film crew. Pseudo-snuff at its cheapest and vilest – and for many, its most effective. I don't even remember how I stumbled over this one but I somehow did and I guess morbid curiosity did the rest. Comparing this to Anaru's other works like Tumbling Doll of Flesh and Women's Flesh - My Red Guts it's a disappointment, nevertheless I pretty much enjoyed it, even though the first half hour was boring, but the last 8 minutes were too weird even for me.

i've now watched all five of these and i regret my choices (i regeretted them from the outset, tbh). yes, i know there's another and i have wisely chosen to pretend that it doesn't exist. So I unfortunately didn't understand what they were saying but here is my opinion on what I've just seen. most of these are known as "dark" mixtapes full of exclusively gore clips without plot. not really movies but whateva... An unexpectedly haunting film from Anaru. After the sleazy Niku Daruma and gross Women’s Flesh, I expected something much sleazier and nasty. What I got was a fairly restrained depiction of loneliness, pain, and depression. Yes, this film is a series of women committing suicide. But it’s also more nuanced and affecting than that. Interesting ways of depicting despair, with a linear storyline of women unable to cope with mistakes. Beautifully shot, especially the second segment.The second woman (who may or may not be an alternate persona of the first) makes no noise at all, even as she slices into her abdomen and plays with her own innards. The sound design during this second part of the film is a mess of bizarre electronic sounds (coming off like a cross between a purring cat and a malfunctioning Atari 2600), dipping into bursts of white noise. There are constant shifts in color grading and image processing too, cycling through a variety of grainy, low-resolution video formats. I have now seen this entire series of films, so I believe I speak with authority when I say that everyone responsible for this should be chemically castrated