TOKUGAWA SEX BAN (1972)

徳川セックス禁止令 色情大名

In Tokugawa era Japan, Princess Kiyo (Miki Sugimoto), youngest daughter of mighty Shogun Ienari Tokugawa, weds country lord Tadateru Ogura. Unfortunately for Kiyo, her new husband is a “man’s man” who has no interest in women. To help Tadateru discover his sexual side, his courtiers bring in Sandra (Sandra Jullien, star of RAVISHING DANY and SHIVER OF THE VAMPIRES), a French courtesan who arrives in a wooden box, like a porcelain doll. Her extraordinary sexual technique awakens Tadateru to the fun he’s been missing all these years. Unfortunately, he enjoys it so much that he decides it’s too good for commoners and so enforces a sex ban on the rest of his subjects, decreeing that any of them having intercourse will be executed. Soon the enraged populace are storming Tadateru’s castle with a battering ram shaped like a giant phallus!

One of the more extraordinary films to come out of 1970’s Japan, this astonishing mixture of historical epic, sexploitation, grand guignol gore and political intrigue is a real one-off. Director Norifumi Suzuki also helmed the “nunsploitation” classic, SCHOOL OF THE HOLY BEAST as well as the notorious S&M themed STAR OF DAVID: BEAUTY HUNTING (1979). This is a first time US release for TOKUGAWA SEX BAN and a world Blu-ray premiere.

DISC FEATURES
Region A locked
Japanese language with optional English subtitles
New 2K restoration from film negative
Interview with film critic and historian Kōshi Ueno
Audio commentary by Japanese film expert Jasper Sharp
Theatrical trailer

LIMITED EDITION FEATURES
Reversible cover sleeve with new art by Justin Coffee on the A side and original ad art on the B; 24 page full color booklet with new writing on the film by Japanese ‘pink film’ expert Dimitri Ianni; three double sided art cards; 1500 numbered copies in the usual red case