At The Movies with Bryan, the Wannabe Filmmaker

Series Directors: Futoshi Sato, Ryuta Miyake, Hideo Nakata, Hirohisa Sasaki, Go Kinomoto. Series cast:   Yuika Shima, Yui Yokoyama, Nana Okada, Matsuri Hashimoto, Anne Iriyama, Misato Morita, Rena Kato, Seira Maeda, Nao Furuhata, Kaori Shiina, Ikumi Nakano, Yui Oguri, Rie Kitahara, Yoko Okamura, Kokora Morita, Mion Mukaichi, Juri Takahashi, Makiko Watanabe, Yuria Kizaki, Kaito Takamura,   Haruka Shimazaki, Riho Takada, Rin Asuka, Rika Adachi, Keira Machida, Sawa Nimura, Toshihito Kokubo,   Mantaro Koichi, Hisako Ohkata, Motoki Ochiai, Anri Mihama. In my Female Prisoner Scorpion review I talked about how I had been a Japanese Cinema kick, so out of curiosity I decided to check out a few Japanese TV series, most notably Ultra-Man, and the subject of today’s review, An Invitation from Ghost Theater, a horror anthology series.   An Invitation from Ghost Theater (Gekijorei karano Syotaijo) is ten episodes long, and each episodes features a young female protagonist who has an encounter

(WARNING: This review contains spoilers) I have recently been on a Japanese Cinema kick – it started after seeing Godzilla Minus One in the theatres and is still going strong two months later. I have watched The Gamera series; A bunch of Ishiro Honda films (The H-Man, Matango, Battle In Outer Space, Atragon), The Bloodthirsty trilogy (The Vampire Doll, Lake of Dracula, Evil of Dracula), The Ring series, Dark Water, Lady Snowblood, and the subject of today’s review, the Female Prisoner Scorpion Quadrilogy. Throughout the 70s (and even into the 80s), “women behind bars” was a popular subgenre of movies that was produced predominantly by B studios. These movies are a prime example of exploitation cinema (Japan has a specific name for this genre of film, Pink): they often featured lots of female nudity, violence, gratuitous sex scenes, and the occasional lesbian scene thrown in for good measure. It isn’t too surprising that Toei (Japan’s equivalent to American International Pictures)