''Shocking Asia'' is a 1974 mondo

documentary film A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in te ...

written and directed by Rolf Olsen with Ingeborg Stein Steinbach. The film was however banned in

Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...

due to its graphic content. A sequel titled '' Shocking Asia II: The Last Taboos'' was released in 1985.

Content

As with most other films of similar nature (such as '' Faces of Death'' and ''

Traces of Death ''Traces of Death'' is a 1993 Z movie mondo shockumentary that consists of various scenes of stock footage depicting death and real scenes of violence. Unlike the earlier '' Faces of Death'' which included fake deaths and reenactments, ''Trace ...

''), ''Shocking Asia'' does not follow a traditional narrative structure, instead neglecting plot for images and video footage of bizarre and macabre situations such as animal cruelty, strange rituals, footage of deformed children and a sex change operation. Most of the clips used are claimed to be real, although this has yet to be verified.

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