Instead, they said, I should limit the shooting to one location and shoot long takes with minimal cutting. As a manga author, I felt I should create a story-driven film, but the producer said they didn’t have the budget for that. I seem to have had some fans among the production team of Guinea Pig 1 during the wrap-up party for Guinea Pig 1, my name was apparently mentioned so the film’s producer paid me a visit. Vice: What was the impetus for making an ultra-violent movie like Guinea Pig? Vice Japan’s Tomo sat down with Hino for this chat. Today Hideshi Hino teaches at the Osaka University of the Arts in, as described hilariously by Japanese Wikipedia, the “Department of molding character.” If that translation even approaches reality, we should expect police to find an enormous cache of bodies in the Yodo River any day now. It’s a 45 minute gore-fest non-pareil that looks as genuine and terrifying today as it did in 1985. The movie famously scared the shit out of Charlie Sheen whose exposure to the movie moved him to report it to the MIAA (and they to the FBI). The plot, loose as it is, consists of a florist killing ladies to use their dismembered body parts for floral arrangements. And you can hardly blame them: the movie itself purports to be an actual snuff film sent to Hino by a crazed fan. When American and Japanese investigators watched his seminal psuedo-snuff masterpiece Guinea Pig 2: Flowers of Flesh and Blood they were convinced the on-screen violence was real.
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