Beauty’s Exotic Dance: Torture! (1977) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained

Release, runtime and language

1977 · 83 mins · Japanese

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Directed by

Noboru Tanaka

Starring

Junko Miyashita, Hatsuo Yamaya, Aoi Nakajima, Chieko Harada, Sumiko Minami, Maya Kudô

Presented as a loosely based retelling of painter Shuu Ito’s life, the film centers on his relentless sexual domination of two wives and a prostitute. Ito documents each encounter in private journals, espouses a twisted, pseudo‑Sadean philosophy, and pushes the women to the brink of madness with an unyielding, hell‑bent cruelty.