Slave Widow
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| Slave Widow | |
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 Cover to the region-1 DVD release |
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| Directed by | Mamoru Watanabe (as Yuzuru Watanabe) |
| Written by | Mamoru Watanabe |
| Starring | Noriko Tatsumi |
| Distributed by | Mutsukuni Eiga / Chuo Eiga |
| Release date(s) | July 11, 1967 |
| Running time | 73 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
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Slave Widow (奴隷未亡人 Dorei mibojin?) is a 1967 Japanese Pink film.
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[edit] Synopsis
When a woman's husband dies leaving her with a large debt, the widow becomes the sexual slave of his largest creditor and his son.[1]
[edit] Cast
- Noriko Tatsumi... Mitsuko[2]
- Masayoshi/Seigi Nogami... Kazuhiko, son of Kito
- Mari Iwai... Maya, the maid
- Tadashi Oizumi... Kito
- Naomi Tani... Mariko
[edit] Availability
Harry Novak released Slave Widow theatrically in the United States through his Boxoffice International Pictures distribution company.[3] The film was again available to U.S. audiences in the late 1990s in a videotape release by Something Weird Video.[3] The film was released on region-1 DVD by Gregory Hatanaka's Cinema Epoch label on April 1, 2008.
Following the DVD release, on May 9 and May 11, 2008, Portland, Oregon's Clinton Street Theater played Slave Widow on a double-bill with Hiroshi Mukai's The Bite (1966), previously considered a lost film.[4]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Buchanan, Jason. Slave Widow. All Movie Guide. Retrieved on May 30, 2008.
- ^ Cast listing from Cowie, Peter (editor). "Dorei Mibôjin" in "Japan" in World Filmography 1967 (1977). Tantivy Press, London. ISBN 0-498015-65-3. p.351.
- ^ a b Fentone, Steve (1998). "Slave Widow; A Rip of the Flesh: The Japanese 'Pink Film' Cycle". She 2 (11): p.10.
- ^ JAPANESE SEXPLOITATION DOUBLE FEATURE - May 9 & 11 (English). The Clinton Street Theater. Retrieved on May 24, 2008.
[edit] Sources
- Barrett, Michael. "Slave Widow" (English). PopMatters, May 8, 2008. Retrieved on May 24, 2008.
- Buchanan, Jason. Slave Widow. All Movie Guide.
- Cowie, Peter (editor). "Dorei Mibôjin" in "Japan" in World Filmography 1967 (1977). Tantivy Press, London. ISBN 0-498015-65-3. p.351.
- Dorei Mibojin / Slave Widow (English). Complete Index to World Film. Retrieved on May 24, 2008.
- 奴隷未亡人 (Dorei mibojin) at Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved on May 24, 2008.
- Loomis, Daryl. "Slave Widow" (English). DVD Verdict, April 10, 2008. Retrieved on May 24, 2008.
- Wallis, John. "Slave Widow" (English). DVD Talk, March 28, 2008. Retrieved on May 24, 2008.
- Weisser, Thomas and Yuko Mihara Weisser. (1998). Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films. Vital Books : Asian Cult Cinema Publications, Miami. ISBN 1-889288-52-7. pp.394-395.
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