Directed by: Seijun Suzuki
Country: Japan, 1964
Color / 2.35:1 Letterbox
Language: Japanese audio with optional English subtitles
Running Time: 90 minutes
Other titles: Nikutai no mon
Region: All (PAL)

Note: This UK release from 1999 is out of print.

Set in Tokyo just after the war, the film tells of a gang of prostitutes who live and work in a bombed-out building. Under the leadership of the tattood Komasa Sen, they exact a fearsome revenge on any women who break their code of "no sex for free". When Shintaro, a handsome ex-soldier now on the run, enters their enclosed female world, it's only time before a terrible tragedy ensues.

Now recognised as a classic of Japanese cinema, the film is a shocking, sometimes brutal but always compelling experience.

Special Features:

• Image gallery

Cast:

Jô Shishido, Kôji Wada, Yumiko Nogawa, Tomiko Ishii, Kayo Matsuo