As we begin with the opening credits we see shorts of a woman suspended from a tree limb who is executed by a katana wielding samaurai, a woman tied to a stake who is completely covered with sticks and branches which are ignited and a woman plunged into a vat of boiling oil.

The first segment tells the story of a girl who is found having an incestuous relationship with her critically injured brother. We see her bound on horseback being led to her execution. In flashback we learn how this came about and see her interrogation where she is bound kneeling and whacked with bamboo poles. She then suffers a face down horizontal suspension for more caning. At execution she is bound to a cross-like wooden frame. At low tide this is implanted into the bay with her head down, mouth and nose inches above the water line. And as the tide comes in slowly the inevitable occurs. This segment rates a B.

The second segment concerns a couple of bisexual nuns who are having a thing until they both fall for a monk. As one is the Mother Superior, she has the other nun tortured by binding her in a vat and pouring eels on her which seek out her privates. Later the other nuns violate her with a hot poker. Authorities step in to put things to a halt. All the nuns are tied to crosses and executed by multiple spear thrusts. This segment rates a C.

The third segment concerns a tattoo artist who wants to create a masterpiece of pain and suffering images on the body of a young geisha. To this end he enlists the aid of the local magistrate in Nagasaki who is conducting an inquisition of euro-Christian women who have been preaching the gospel. In a dungeon setting this guy works his craft as he observes a variety of torments like beating, water wheel torture, suspensions and drops, lap and leg stone torture just to name a few. To finish, he stabs the magistrate to get the look of agony on his face so he can integrate that into the women's suffering. He and his geisha who now bears his masterpiece make their escape in a conflagration that destroys the dungeon. This segment rates an A.

Movie Pluses - great concept and for the most part great execution. The use of euro chicks in the final segment was strong.

Movie Minuses - it's somewhat distracting trying to gather in a Japanese flick dubbed into German with English subtitles. Also, this copy is marginal quality making some of the action hard to discern. And as a mainstream film there is the dead "chat" and "moralizing" time.