All Up in These Guts, Part 2

Perverse Permission is back with the second part of Samm and John’s discussion of Japanese pink films and the Angel Guts seres, based on Takashi Ishii’s manga of the same name. The first episode covered the first four films in the series and this continues with Angel Guts: Red Vertigo (1988) and Angel Guts: Red Flash (1994), both directed by Ishii himself, and two unofficial though no less incredible entries in the series, Hiroyuki Nasu’s Rouge (1984) and Junichi Suzuki’s Red Rope Until I Die (1987). Again, these are films that deal explicitly with sexual violence, though they bridge the worlds of exploitation movies and art house cinema through their transcendent explorations of trauma, desire, and fantasy. Thanks for the enthusiastic response to our first episode and please follow Samm and John over at Patreon for more!