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In debt, Yumi takes up an offer to serve as a geisha with a promise of freedom once the money is repaid. But this is less a house of geishas than an extremely cruel brothel specialising in supplying western visitors with desirable tattooed playthings. Yumi's body becomes a battleground as two rival tattoo artists become determined not to lose their spot at the top of the Shogun's good graces. Following Ishii's legendary Shogun's Joy of Torture and Orgies of Edo, the prolific filmmaker still manages to turn up the heat in this incredibly violent and salacious entry in a filmography unlike any other. From the film's opening scene depicting some of the most perverse violence ever captured on screen, through to the shock ending that will leave the audience's mouths agape, there's nothing quite like Inferno of Torture. Tender romance clashes with vile sadism as a sea of tattooed female flesh floods nearly every frame of this film depicting Japan's Edo period as only Ishii could.

Inferno of Torture is a 1969 drama with a runtime of 1 hour and 35 minutes. It has received moderate reviews from critics and viewers, who have given it an IMDb score of 5.7.