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| | Teruo Ishii, the Outcast |
 | | Porno Jidaigeki: Bohachi Bushido (Porno Period Drama: Bohachi Code of Honor, 1973), on the other hand, is a late ero-guro full of unreal colors (as in the opening sequence, were the hero battles dozen of enemies on a bridge in the twilight, surrounded by flaming reds and greens) and wall-to-wall sex. |
 | | His antiheroes are solitary outcasts, such as ronin Tamba Tetsuro in Porno Period Drama: Bohachi Bushido, or the protagonist of Edogawa Rampo Taizen Kyofu Kikei Ningen (Edogawa Rampo’s Horror of the Malformed Men, 1969), who hides on an island where he reigns over a community of freaks. |
 | | Based on Edogawa Rampo stories, the film has gained cult status in Japan, but has never been released on VHS or DVD because of its disturbing theme, even though all the “freaks” that appear in the picture are actors in makeup. |
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