Subway Serial Rape: Lover Hunting
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| File:Subway Serial Rape - Lover Hunting.jpg Theatrical poster for Subway Serial Rape: Lover Hunting (1988) | |
| Directed by | Shūji Kataoka[1] |
| Written by | Shūji Kataoka |
| Starring | Kanako Kishi Megumi Takahashi Sayaka Hitomi |
| Cinematography | Satoshi Shimomoto |
| Edited by | Shōji Sakai |
Production company | Shishi Productions |
| Distributed by | Nikkatsu |
Release date | May 7, 1988 |
Running time | 61 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
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Subway Serial Rape: Lover Hunting (地下鉄連続レイプ 愛人狩り Chikatetsu Renzoku Reipu: Aijin-Gari) is a 1988 Japanese pink film written and directed by Shūji Kataoka. It was named the Best Film at the first Pink Grand Prix ceremony.[2]
Synopsis[edit]
Tomoko, a newscaster, decides to do a series of stories on rapes in subways. A gang which perpetrates these attacks targets the newscaster, and she is assaulted while broadcasting live.[3]
Cast[edit]
- Kanako Kishi (岸加奈子) as Tomoko (newscaster)[4]
- Megumi Takahashi (高橋めぐみ)
- Sayaka Hitomi (瞳さやか)
- Sayaka Kimura (木村さやか)
- Tsubasa Hayase (早瀬つばさ)
- Shirō Shimomoto
- Yukijirō Hotaru (螢雪次朗)
- Ren Ōsugi (大杉漣)
Background[edit]
Shūji Kataoka filmed Subway Serial Rape: Lover Hunting for producer-director Kan Mukai's Shishi Productions and it was released theatrically in Japan by Nikkatsu on May 7, 1988.[1] It became available online through the Hokuto Corporation's DMM service on December 17, 2004.[5]
Kataoka's Subway Serial Rape series was inaugurated in 1985. The first film was intended as a single, but led to three loosely related sequels. Kataoka had worked as assistant director to Yōjirō Takita in his Molester's Train series. Unlike the light tone of Takita's films, Kataoka's Subway Serial Rape series is intentionally shocking and offensive. All the films in the series were released by Nikkatsu during the last years of its Roman porno series era. Subway Serial Rape: Lover Hunting was the fourth and last entry in the series, released in 1988, the year that Nikkatsu ceased production. In their Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films, Thomas and Yuko Mihara Weisser write that these films may be "the most perfect portrayal of voyeurism ever captured on celluloid".[3]
Following Nikkatsu's bankruptcy the year of the release of Subway Serial Rape: Lover Hunting, lead actress Kanako Kishi became one of the most prominent pink film actresses of the 1990s.[3] She is especially associated with the work of actor-director Kazuhiro Sano, appearing in several of his films.[6] Known for his supporting roles in such mainstream films as Takeshi Kitano's Sonatine (1993) and Hana-bi (1997), Ren Ōsugi had started his film career in the pink genre with Banmei Takahashi's Tightly Bound Sacrifice (1980). Subway Serial Rape was his last appearance in a pink film.[7]
Bibliography[edit]
English[edit]
- Subway Serial Rape: Lover Hunting (1988) on IMDb Search this movie on
- "CHIKATETSU RENZOKU RAPE: AIJIN-GARI". Complete Index to World Film. Retrieved 2010-06-24.
- Sharp, Jasper (2008). Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema. Guildford: FAB Press. pp. 239, 347. ISBN 978-1-903254-54-7. Search this book on
- Weisser, Thomas; Yuko Mihara Weisser (1998). Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films. Miami: Vital Books : Asian Cult Cinema Publications. pp. 421–422. ISBN 1-889288-52-7. Search this book on
Japanese[edit]
- 地下鉄連続レイプ 愛人狩り(1988) (in Japanese). allcinema.net. Retrieved 2010-06-24.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
- 地下鉄連続レイプ 愛人狩り (in Japanese). Japanese Cinema Database (Agency for Cultural Affairs). Retrieved 2010-06-24.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
- 地下鉄連続レイプ 愛人狩り (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 2010-06-24.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
- 地下鉄連続レイプ(邦画 ) (in Japanese). Kinema Junpo. Retrieved 2010-06-24.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 地下鉄連続レイプ 愛人狩り (in Japanese). Japanese Cinema Database (Agency for Cultural Affairs). Retrieved 2010-06-24.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
- ↑ "Best Ten of 1988 1988年度ベストテン" (in Japanese). P.G. Web Site. Retrieved 2010-06-24.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Weisser, Thomas; Yuko Mihara Weisser (1998). Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films. Miami: Vital Books : Asian Cult Cinema Publications. pp. 421–422. ISBN 1-889288-52-7. Search this book on
- ↑ 地下鉄連続レイプ 愛人狩り (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 2010-06-24.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
- ↑ 日活ニッカツロマンポルノ (in Japanese). P.G. Web Site. Retrieved 2010-06-24.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
- ↑ Under the Carp Banner; Interview with Kazuhiro Sano; Interviewed by Nakashima Yasushi (in Japanese and English). Artsmagic. 2006-10-31. Event occurs at 19:05.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
- ↑ Sharp, pp. 239-240.
| Preceded by New award |
Pink Grand Prix for Best Film 1988 |
Succeeded by Abnormal Excitement: Nao Saejima |
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