This 1967 mondo feature, crafted from Nakagawa Nobuo's horrific 1963 documentary This Is Japan (aka Cruel Tales Of Japan) depicting the actual torture and killing of monkeys, sea lions, a bear, and other animals, was purchased by Sam Arkoff for his Trans American offshoot, given an English-language narration by film producer Burt Topper (Wild In The Streets) and Terry Vantell (wife of Jack The Flesh Eaters Curtis), and dumped into U.S. fleapits and drive-ins to near-universal condemnation. It was pulled, the objectionable animal sequences removed, and then briefly reissued before sinking into the A.I.P. vaults to never resurface but for a censored trailer which can be seen on YouTube. Not to be confused with Donald Cammell and Nicholas Roeg's Performance (1970), known in Italy as Sadismo.
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