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Horicho elects a bathhouse owner to help him in finding a woman with beautiful skin for his next work. He finally identifies Hana as having the most beautiful skin, who he later knocks out and drugs to begin tattooing her. Visiting
Nanbara, Horicho asks to be shown torture up close and is allowed to
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In Juko temple, an abbess, Myoshin has a sexual rendezvous with a priest , Shunkai, and is spied on by the Abbess, Reiho. Reiho confronts
Shunkai and orders him to pray naked under a waterfall. After seducing him and having sex, Shunkai informs Reiho that they can’t be punished because they’ve both
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Minosuke visits and witnesses the two embracing, using the relationship as blackmail and raping Mitsu in front of Shinzô. The next day, Mitsu finds Shinzô has committed suicide with a straight razor. When
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Arrested for the assault, Mitsu is interrogated with torture by the authorities, led by Lord
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Horicho is a renowned tattoo artist working in Edo, admired for his pieces depicting hellish torments. At a showing for his latest work, everyone is impressed sans Lord
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Mitsu lives with her brother Shinzô. One day, Shinzô is injured in a logging accident and a local kimono shop owner, Minosuke, pays for his doctor’s fees. Mitsu is reminded that she is indebted to
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Horicho and is obedient. Nanbara takes them to a barn where the authorities have gathered a group of shipwrecked Dutch Christian women and begins torturing them under the pretense of spreading Christianity in Japan.
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presented with the option of refuting
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