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. It tells two stories set in

Edo period The , also known as the , is the period between 1600 or 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when the country was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and some 300 regional ''daimyo'', or feudal lords. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengok ...

Japan: one involving a

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girl who is taken as a slave and

torture Torture is the deliberate infliction of severe pain or suffering on a person for reasons including corporal punishment, punishment, forced confession, extracting a confession, interrogational torture, interrogation for information, or intimid ...

d, the other about a

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master who tries to escape with a girl he fell in love with. It is a follow-up to the 1968 film '' Shogun's Joy of Torture''.

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* 1970s Japanese-language films 1976 films 1976 drama films 1976 horror films Japanese horror drama films Japanese splatter films 1970s exploitation films BDSM in films Toei Company films 1970s Japanese films Films scored by Takeo Watanabe {{1970s-horror-film-stub