Product Details

• Actors: Yumi Takigawa, Emiko Yamauchi, Yayoi Watanabe, Ryouko Ima, Harumi Tajima
• Directors: Norifumi Suzuki
• Format: Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: Japanese
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: Cult Epics
• DVD Release Date: August 30, 2005
• Run Time: 94 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000AA4F9W
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #28,540 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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SCHOOL OF THE HOLY BEAST

Japan's most notorious Nun-Exploitation film: School Of The Holy Beast (Sei Juu Gakuen) directed by sexploitation guru, Norifumi Suzuki, plunges into a maelstrom of hidden torture, secret masochistic desires, and blasphemous rites as Yumi Takigawa takes religious vows to find out what terrible things happened to her mother inside the Sacred Heart Convent. When she finds out - with the help of a lecherous archbishops, a lesbian mother superior and a line-up of fellow nuns ready to whip her (in the films most deliriously over the top scene)with a gauntlet of rose-thorns - hell is loose. Beautifully shot, a shocking unforgetable Masterpiece by the director of "Beautiful Girl Hunter" - Dario Argento meets the Marquis de Sade.

CULT EPICS MOST ANTICIPATED RELEASE OF THE YEAR

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Japanese Nunsploitation, November 11, 2005

By	GialloFan (OH USA) - See all my reviews

A wonderful film - as amazing as Female Prisoner 701 - fantastic visuals - fantastic music - only the Japanese can make such trash with such style. Highly recommended!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nasty Nuns of Nippon, July 13, 2008

By	Franco Jesse (Pittsburgh, USA) - See all my reviews

I sat down to view this expecting a typical nunsploitation flick. Sure there is some whipping, torture, lesbianism and even some mention of Satan. But this Japanese product available in a widescreen, uncut version by Cult Epics is an absorbing and gripping story of demons that lurk within the hearts and minds of humans, not beasts of the holy or unholy kind. Medieval Catholicism mixes with Japanese themes of family, honor and revenge to produce a hot mess that is beautifully presented and mesmerizingly performed. Tumi Takigawa stars as Maya Takigawa, a young woman who "infiltrates" a convent to discern the truth about her biological mother, a nun who died after giving birth to Maya 18 years before. She encounters greed, lust, subterfuge, hatred, betrayal, corruption, violence and many other vices while navigating the curious caste system of the abbey that pits "choir nuns" against "assistant nuns". Although sometimes over-the-top in its depiction of religious beliefs, it fascinates nonetheless.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars AKA Convent of the Sacred Beast, May 15, 2007

By	N. Stepro (new albany, IN United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The beast being the Rasputin look alike priest? Or is it the Mother Superior?

Yes, its sexploitation or nunsploitation, but the lead is avery strong and resourceful woman.

Is there a difference , besides the titles, between the two versions? More material, less?

If you really want to buy, go for the less expensive used 'Convent'