Episode 1: All Up in these Guts, Part 1

For the inaugural episode of Perverse Permission, Samm and John are diving right into the deep end of Japanese pink films. This is the first of a two-part episode exploring the legendary Angel Guts series based on Takashi Ishii’s manga of the same time. All the films loosely follow a woman called Nami and various iterations of her tortured relationship with a man named Muraki. These visually stunning films are often intensely erotic, but also explore the effects of trauma and sexual violence with surprising depth. This episode covers the first four films in the series, Chusei Sone’s Angel Guts: High School Co-Ed (1978) and Angel Guts: Red Classroom (1979), Noboru Tanaka’s Angel Guts: Nami (1979), and Toshiharu Ikeda’s Angel Guts: Red Porno (1981).