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Muscle

Country: Japan, Language: Japanese, 60 mins

Original Title

Kurutta Butokai
  • Director: Hisayasu Sato
  • Writer: Shirô Yumemoto
  • Producer: Shûji Kataoka; Taturo Komada

CGiii Comment

Ugly pants...

A skinny Japanese chap doing Tai Chi in his ugly pants...then, a bout of sadistic sex until he gets his arm chopped off - that's the first 5 minutes...it doesn't get any better.

Sato obviously likes Pasolini - in fact, after watching this film, you could easily imagine Pasolini to be the greatest director ever!

It really is that bad.

Total and absolute nonsense.


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The(ir) Blurb...

Ryuzaki, an editor of Muscle Magazine, which features photographs of men with sculpted bodies, becomes involved with a man named Kitami; their affair soon becomes dominated by sadomasochistic games, with a horrid result. Jump ahead one year, Ryuzaki is released from jail and goes in search of Kitami, perhaps to make amends. The films of Pasolini, especially "Salò," dominate Ryuzaki's imagination; he works sometimes at the Lunatic Theatre, which shows films about rough trade; and, he becomes involved with a couple into S & M. Will Ryuzaki find Kitami, and what will happen if he does?

Cast & Characters

Kiyomi Ito as Yoko;
Takeshi Ito as Ryuzaki;
June as Hustler with long hair;
Simon Kumai as Kitami;
Mabze as Hustler;
You Suzuki as Chida