chribren WARNING: This review might have some spoilers, but feel free to read this as it doesn't give away an ending spoiler. Also this is my first review after getting signed up on IMDb ;-) "Inferno of Torture" is a Horror movie, directed by Teruo Ishii 1969. It was produced by the great Toei Company.Telling short about this 94-minute long film, it takes place in the Edo-period, and centers around a bounce of geisha-like ladies who gets tattooed, only to find out later in the film that they are to be sold as sex slaves for foreigners. Will these ladies ever get to be saved at the end...? Find out by yourself...:-P This film isn't as fully brutal and gory as "The Joy of Torture" which Teruo Ishii and Toei made one year earlier, being 1968. But still "Inferno of torture" is very strong in content as it contains some whipping, several fight scenes, and not at least a nude cat-fight on a boat.As I said earlier, I'm not gonna give away the ending. But I can tell you that this ending is very spectacular, and very different from most of the old Japanese movies I have seen, and thus one of the BEST endings I have seen in this type of films.After all I totally liked this movie, together with other works like "The Joy of Torture", "Yakuza's Law" and "Orgies of Edo". Liked the plot in it, as well as the strong content itself. Also I have watched this two times online.Sadly, this film is not available in Norway where I live, where it would have guaranteed have gotten an 18 rating. I mean, if this film is/were to be released here, I would guaranteed have got it on DVD for a long time ago...Trust me, I world promise you that...!

Ténèbre Rarum (Dario_the_2nd) Inferno of Torture (1969)Beautiful and perfect example of a supreme "exploitation" movie!-I want to mention as first, this is one of the most weird and beautiful DVD menus I have seen. The menu to select from consists out interactive persons. Depending on which one you choose they will get hanged, cooked or burned. Cool interactive DVD menu. Also the movie is just of a super quality. The print is awesome.-The movie starts straight away with a couple of pictures, revealing the bizarre stuff you're in for. The cooking of a woman who betrayed her husband. The hanging and cutting in 2 of a betrayer of the 'Koga' clan, who also served at that same moment as test object (on his body) to try out some new swords. The burning of a woman and we keep continuing on this kinda level... So in other words the movie cuts to the chase from the first second. The film continues with the story of the 'Tokugawa Sjogoen' clan, which had a severe punishment system to protect her own feudal system as the torture they used against Christians that consists, up to a serious gruesome level.-This movie works onto 2 levels right in opposite of each other, and it works pretty well. On one side you have the cruelty of the pain, suffering and torture. While on the other side the director puts a very charming picture, on how beautiful love is. The love scenes in this movie/documentary are nice gentle and subtle. And all in atmosphere of happiness accompanied with joyful music (Emanuelle alike sound). At one moment you have a shot of a young happy couple madly in love followed by the next second shot of the burning of a man in some special kind of cook-sarcophagus. Also the way they carry out an abortion, I wouldn't call it customary! As many other stuff I don't even mention, this movie will pull your mouth wide open.-This flick is at some points pretty disturbing, as for the moment they beat the hell out a little girl as a few moments later they burn her eyes out. So the movie is certainly for a mature audience and for sure not for the young commencing exploitation freak!!!-This movie shows some cruel ways on how a human being with power and a certain believe/religion can display onto others. It will take you in a sphere of the 'voyeur'. And indeed ask yourself the Q? Why for god sake do I have interest in seeing this kind of movie? 'Reality-check'? Pretty nasty flick and for sure a must have on the strange bizarre and uncommon. A must for every serious collector. So a recommendation? YES indeed!

dmacewen I love these bourgeois lemmings weaned on swill like The Exorcist, Alien, Jaws, The Omen, Poltergeist, The Silence of the Lambs, and other such Hollywood swill. They love to talk about "storytelling" and movies where you "care about the characters," as if that were the only one way of making a legitimate horror film (and let's face it: the "characterizations" in these films are often laughable in their pretensions and shallowness). Here's a bit of news for those who haven't figured it out yet: there's no such thing as "gore for gore's sake." There's only apologetic gore and unapologetic gore. Ishii was a terrific filmmaker. You people need to expand your horizons beyond Stephen King. (A great writer, by the way.)

gimmedacash Whatever happened to storytelling? That's the question that I was left asking myself after wasting time watching this movie. Yes, the gore scenes are plenty and creative, but the problem is that not once can you feel any kind of sympathy for people you don't know anything about. The so-called "love story" is a rushed into the first 2 minutes of the film and does nothing to help character development. The film shows absolutely nothing worth watching, even as a gore-hound I was left not caring that much about the torture scenes. This movie gave me no reason to care about any of it's characters of their story, it just relied on gore to shock me and I found that cheap and got more angry about losing precious time on this than on the gore itself. This movie is about torture, torture of it's audience that is.