Another 4 years, another ‘Stop the Bitch Campaign’—You know, like the Olympics
Posted by Kevin Ouellette on January 31, 2009 4:45pm EDT (3 years ago)
Filed under: Crime, Future releases
Originally inspired by a 1998 manga written by Hideo Yamamoto (Ichi the Killer) and illustrated by Tetsuya Koshiba (Tennen Shojo Man), Stop the Bitch Campaign (Enjo Kousai Bokumetsu Undou) is a series of movies in which teen prostitutes are humiliated and abused in various ways in a sadistic attempt to get them off the streets. Then comes the sweet, sweet revenge. The first movie came out in 2001 and featured AV star Koharu Tohno in the lead role. The second, dubbed “Stop the Bitch Campaign: Hell Version”, came out in 2004 and was far more popular, partly due to the feverish support of fans, but mostly due to the casting of the incredibly popular AV star Sola Aoi and a way-over-the-top performance by Kenichi Endo as the perverted villain, Mr. Kuni.
The third film is again titled simply “Stop the Bitch Campaign” and features 22-year-old AV star Rio in the lead role. The director of the second film, Kosuke Suzuki, is back along with Kenichi Endo in the same role. The PR blurbs liken Endo’s performance to Heath Ledger’s Joker in The Dark Knight—geez guys, hype much?
Rio plays Azusa, the older sister of a girl named Megumi who committed suicide under mysterious circumstances. After some investigating, she discovers Megumi was driven to suicide by a man named Kuni and his “enboku” plan to humiliate teenage girls and drive them away from prostitution by any means necessary. She had dismissed what she had heard about Kuni as urban legend, but the horrific stories about girls being forced to don signs and be branded with phrases like “female pig” were apparently all true. In fact, Megumi’s corpse had been branded with that very phrase; Kuni had to be the one responsible. Azusa swears revenge, and with the help of fellow classmate Ayano she starts tracking him down. However, it was just the beginning of a hell neither of them could have imagined…
“Stop the Bitch Campaign” will premiere at this year’s Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival in February before getting a week of late show screenings from 3/7-3/13 at Cinema Rosa in Ikebukuro, Tokyo.
Here’s the trailer, with aspect ratio adjusted from the absurdly wrong version on the official website. Probably not work safe.
Trailer heads up via The Gomorrahizer
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