J-sploitation: Japanese sale DVD of Takaaki Hashiguchi's KUCHISAKE, w/ Mayu Asada, Minami Aoyama, Le

Inter Film Y.K. (Y.K. Intâ Firumu) is scheduled to release Takaaki Hashiguchi's erotic horror (erotikku horâ) Kuchisake on sale DVD (IFD-045; NTSC, region 2, no subtitles) in Japan on March 3rd. The DVD can be purchased on-line from such retailers as CD Japan (Neo Wing K.K. / K.K. Neo Wingu) and Amazon Japan K.K.. Kuchisake was screened at the Uplink X in Tokyo last year, every Wednesday from September 7th to October 5th.

As was reported here on ScreenAnarchy back on August 11th of last year, the principal cast of Kuchisake was as follows: Mayu Asada, Minami Aoyama, Lemon Hanazawa (Hanazawa Remon; she was also in Daisuke Yamanouchi's Joshiryô no kôshoku oyaji: yaneura no nozoki-ana), Kyôko Kazama, Hotaru Hazuki (Haduki Hotaru; she was also in Daisuke Yamanouchi's Benriya kaseifu: kagi no ana kara), Azusa Sakai, Kikujirô Honda, Mikiya Sanada, Taishi Takemoto, Mikio Satô, Takeshi Itô, and Shûji Ôtsuki. Takashi Oda was responsible for the movie's special make-up effects.

Oda's previous credits - primarily as a special make-up effects artist - apparently include Takeshi Kitano's Sonatine (Sonachine), Shûsuke Kaneko's Gamera: The Guardian of the Universe (Gamera: daikaijû kûchû kessen), Kaneko's Gakkô no kaidan 3, Naoyuki Tomomatsu's Stacy, Gen Takahashi's Lady Plastic, Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Doppelganger (Dopperugengâ), and all of Shin'ya Tsukamoto's features from Hiruko the Goblin (Yôkai hantâ: Hiruko) to Vital (Vitâru).

Hashiguchi's previous directing credits include Kannô no yakata: hitozuma shôten - which was released by Inter Film on sale DVD (IFD-021) in Japan on January 8th of last year, under the title "Iwakutsuki: Doll House" - and Woman Prisoner Torture (Zoku joshû gômon seme) - which was released by Junk (apparently, a label of Five Ways K.K. / K.K. Faibu Weizu) on VHS (JK-008) in Japan on November 22, 1998.

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