L'Amant and Sodom No Ichi Trailers Online

Here's a little something good courtesy of Stauffen's Japanese Film blog ... we linked to the website for Ryuichi Hiroki's L'Amant a little while back and Stauffen is now pointing the way to a fantastic trailer for the film. Hiroki rose to international prominence with the release of Vibrator, a film that could easily have slid into crass exploitation territory but instead elevated itself into a pretty compelling character study. If the trailer for L'Amant is any indication it looks as though Hiroki is looking to build on the ideas he introduced in Vibrator and I'm very much looking forward to seeing it ... the trailer is here, the website here.

A film that very definitely DOES move into exploitation territory - and I mean that in the best possible way - is Sodom No Ichi. I knew nothing of it until I came across the link on Stauffen, but check this out. Seriously. Check it out. Evil nuns! Satanists! Necromancy! All kinds of good stuff! If not for all the Japanese people I'd think this was made in Italy back in the seventies!