Assault! Jack the Ripper (1976)

Director: Yasuharu Hasebe
Writer: Yasuharu Hasebe
Stars: Tamaki Katsura, Yuri Yamashina, Natsuko Yashiro

Two restaurant employees begin a sexual killing spree after they accidentally kill a hitch hiker and find that murder and mutilation is their mutual aphrodisiac.

During the mid-1970s and early 80's, Nikkatsu-the most important of the pinku eiga studios-launched a series of pink films which were progressively more extreme in their level of sexual violence. "Assault!Jack the Ripper" is certainly one of the nastiest pink films I have ever came across. It tells the story of a young waitress and a cook, who after incidentally killing a young woman on a street ends up sadistically raping and murdering women via stabbing them in the crotch. The scenes of rape and sexual violence are truly unsettling, but the film is well-made and acted. Yasuharu Hasebe directed a series of very extreme Nikkatsu pink movies including brutal "Rape!" and horrendously offensive "Rape! 13th Hour". In 1979 came Koyu Ohara's "Zoom Up: Rape Site", notorious for a scene in which a rapist shoves a light bulb inside a woman's vagina,then stomps on her stomach until it breaks. "Assault!Jack the Ripper" is not easy to find,but for fans of misogynistic Japanese exploitation this sleazy sickie is a must-see. 10 out of 10.

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