20 Most Disturbing Japanese Horror Movies Of All Time

3. Shogun's Sadism (1976)

The Plot: Two short stories, the first being the systematic slavery and torture of a young Christian girl, and the second about a brothel janitor who attempts to flee with the prostitute he's fallen in love with, but of course, they both get caught. Why It's Disturbing: Well, the film quickly rattles through such acts as graphic rape, castration, death by snakes, feet being hammered into a crimson mess, spit-roasting a woman alive, slowly beheading someone, dismemberment, and of course, forced abortion. In fairness, the plot around which these sequences are formed is relatively decent and makes a brutal, no-nonsense point about the depravity of Japan's history, but at the same time, that argument rears its head one again: is the historical context negated by the evidently exploitative tone?