Blu-ray release: 'Takashi Ishii: The Angel Guts Collection'

Third Window Films will release a collection of five Japanese pink films on Blu-ray, all produced between 1978 and 1994 and adapted from Takashi Ishii’s cult manga ‘Angel Guts’ (天使のはらわた).

Angel Guts: Red Classroom 天使のはらわた赤い教室 (1979),
Directed by Chusei Sone
When Muraki, a porn magazine editor, watches a pornographic film depicting a gang rape in a school, he becomes obsessed with the lead actress, leading him down a dark path of fixation and moral collapse.

Angel Guts: Nami 天使のはらわた名美 (1979),
Directed by Noboru Tanaka
While researching stories of rape for a magazine article, a determined but emotionally detached reporter finds herself perversely aroused as she encounters women living through the trauma of their experiences.

Angel Guts: Red Porno 天使のはらわた赤い淫画 (1981),
Directed by Toshiharu Ikeda
Nami, a department store worker, agrees to stand in for a friend at a magazine photo shoot, only to discover it is for an S&M publication; when the images are released, she loses her job, her lover abandons her, and her life begins to unravel.

Angel Guts: Red Vertigo 天使のはらわた赤い眩暈 (1988),
Directed by Takashi Ishii
Nami, a nurse subjected to her patients’ lust, is struck by a car while fleeing her unfaithful boyfriend and taken captive by the driver, who imprisons her in a brutal cycle of sexual violence.

Angel Guts: Red Flash 天使のはらわた赤い閃光 (1994),
Directed by Takashi Ishii
Nami is a photographer on the set of a porn film, where shooting a staged rape scene between a teacher and a schoolgirl forces her to confront a similar trauma from her own past.

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