Directed by: Teruo Ishii
Stars: Teruo Yoshida, Masumi Tachibana, Fumio Watanabe
Language: Japanese | Subtitles: English (embed)
Country: Japan | Imdb Info

Also known as: Tokugawa onna keibatsu-shi, Femmes criminelles, I piaceri della tortura, El placer de la tortura, Female Punishment of the Tokugawa, The Joy of Torture, Tokugawa History of Women Punishment, Punishment of the Tokugawa Women

Description: The Joy of Torture is an anthology that is made up three separate stories that all intersect: The first segment is about Shinza who was hurt while working when a log hit him on the head and now sister Mitsu is forced give herself to her brothers boss Mr. Mino in order to help pay for Shinza’s doctors bills. The second segment is about the arrival of mother Reiho and her servant Rintoku at the Jukuin monastery. The monastery is located new to e temple inhabited by priest and one day when one of them named Shunkei runs by Reiho he arouses something inside of her. The final segment is about a tattoo artist named Horicho who has just given Kimicho his greatest tattoo to date. While showing his work off to a group of people, a man named Lord Nambera walks by mocking the tattoo and it lack of realism.