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The Notorious Concubines

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Original title

Kinpeibai

Year

1969

Running time

90 min.

Country

Japan

Director

Kôji Wakamatsu

Screenwriter

James E. McLarty, Atsushi Yamatoya. Novel: Shin-Chen Wang

Cast

Music

Masao Yagi

Cinematography

Hideo Itoh

Producer

Unicorn Productions

Genre

Drama | Erotic. Gore

Synopsis

In Feudal China, Chin Lien is a conniving, oversexed harlot who insults her rice seller husband Wu Ta and longs to bed her brother in law, Captain of the Governor's Guard Wu Sing. When he rejects her advances, she takes up with wealthy Men Ching. Eventually, the cuckolded husband finds out, and Chin Lien poisons him. This drives Wu Sing insane and he goes on a killing spree. He is branded a murderer and imprisoned. Chin becomes Men Ching's fifth wife, and this disrupts his hedonistic household. The other wives hate Chin Lien, and spread vicious rumors about her. Men Ching enjoys wild drunken orgies with numerous partners, and eventually he grows tired of Chin Lien. When new wife #6 gives him a son, Chin Lien kills it by placing a cat in its nursery. Meanwhile, anarchy reigns in the countryside as bandits, vowing to help the poor, raid and slaughter government convoys. Hoping to get back in her husband's good graces (and bed), Chin asks him to kill Wu Sing. Unfortunately, the bandits release Wu Sing and he continues his brutal ways, leaving a trail of bodies which leads to the House of Men Ching, and Chin Lien.

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The Notorious Concubines

1969

Kôji Wakamatsu