Tokugawa irezumi-shi: Seme jigoku (1969)
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Mieko Fujimoto, Reiichi Hatanaka, Yuki Kagawa, Kamiko Katayama, Miki Obana, Asao Koike, Masumi Tachibana, Haruo Tanaka, Teruo Yoshida
A debt-burdened young woman enters a brothel where escape seems impossible.
The story
Yumi lost her parents young and is left with the debts they owed. With the help of Samejima, a yoriki, she finds a position in service at Daikokuya. The place proves to be a horrifying brothel where tattooed women are gathered and, according to the account, no one who enters can escape. The story opens amid the legacy of brutal Tokugawa-era punishments, with rows of gravestones and a woman trying to free a corpse from an iron chastity belt. The article gives no further details about Yumi’s experiences or what happens after she arrives.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Men and women who suffered under the brutal punishments of the Tokugawa era and disappeared—rows of gravestones tell their story. There, a woman digs up a brand-new coffin and frantically tears open the corpse’s abdomen... She tries to use the key in her hand to remove the iron chastity belt biting coldly into its flesh, but the key snaps. Yumi, a woman who lost her parents at an early age, had been burdened with mounting debts left behind by them. Through the good offices of Samejima, a yoriki, she secured a position in service at Daikokuya. But it was a horrifying brothel where tattooed women gathered, and from which no one who entered could ever escape.
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