Trauma, horses, and questionable life choices — Japanese exploitation cinema goes to the stable.
A young office lady is lured to the countrside and sadistically tortured by her supposed fiancé and his girlfriend. Left for dead she is taken in by a groom from a nearby horse farm. The country life eases her trauma until she witnesses the erotically charged sight of horses being bred.
Direction
Tago commits to the bit with unsettling sincerity.
Production
That horse farm location is doing heavy lifting.
Director
Naomichi Tago
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pink films of this era often used rural settings as 'pure' spaces where urban women's trauma could be 'solved' through nature and sex — a deeply weird genre convention.
The original Japanese title ザ・衝撃 translates to 'The Shock,' which the distributor apparently thought less marketable than menstrual sensationalism.
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