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The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

I saw this movie as part of a double feature in a movie theater I believe in Itabashi area of Tokyo around 1978. The other movie I think was Momojiri Musume, and that was the movie I actually wanted to see.I was amazed at the audacity of the character to climb up the wall of a condo to rape a woman. Then after that it was non-stop sexually themed violence throughout the movie. The movie left an impression on me that I haven't forgotten through the years. I couldn't remember the title of the movie, but I've seen it recently again. The ballerina girl I thought was Izumi Shima, but it wasn't. Each of the movie's character has a shabby poetic- ness to them. Nikkatsu's Roman Poruno series movies usually has a happy go lucky style to them, but this movie is unusually dark for this series. One of a kind sex movie that goes beyond mere porn due to its audacity. It's definitely worth checking out if you can find it.

"Rape!13th Hour" tells the story of a brutal gangster and rapist named Crimson.He is stalked by a trio of gay vigilantes.One night Crimson rapes a ballerina with the help of a young gas station worker.Crimson's accomplice can't climax,but his thoughts about rape are overwhelming.Soon the series of brutal rapes is set in motion..."Rape!13th Hour" by Yasuharu Hasebe is not as disturbing as 1976's "Assault!Jack the Ripper",however it features lots of rape and hard misogyny.This controversial pink film is perhaps one of the most extreme Nikkatsu rape movies.The climax which takes place in an empty swimming pool is truly nihilistic and evil.The acting is solid,the women are attractive and there are some tense moments.A must-see for fans of depraved exploitation cinema,but despite of its nasty reputation "Rape!25-ji bokan" is nothing in comparison to many pinku eiga movies which would follow.8 out of 10.

Of Hasebe's films, I've so far only seen the twisted (and spectacular) ASSAULT! JACK THE RIPPER, and now RAPE! 13TH HOUR. After the sleazy-goodness of ASSAULT! - I was hoping for another strong violent-pink exploit entry, and I got it - sorta...The story surrounds Crimson - a serial rapist who takes on as an accomplice/attendant a young gas-station attendant. The two commit several rapes together as the gas-guy learns the ropes of raping women into submission. Meanwhile, a gang is on Crimson's tail (for reasons that were never made clear...) - and the gang's gay leader tries to extort sex out of Crimson in order to keep hush-hush about his "extra-carricular activities". Crimson ain't havin' it and knocks around the gang leader - causing a most unpleasant retaliation...After watching both ASSAULT! and 13TH HOUR - I've come to the conclusion that Hasebe is a pretty weak director with some strong ideas. At least ASSAULT! has enough "nasty" content to keep ya interested - whereas 13TH HOUR proved pretty dull to me. The rape scenes are neither particularly erotic nor particularly nasty, the cinematography as a whole is amateurish, and there just wasn't enough happening (except for a lot of soft-core simulated rape-action) for me to care. That said - it's not a horrible film, and the ending is suitably strong - I just feel that this film didn't live up to it's "shocking" reputation to me, and I feel that it's "rare" status may have more to do with the stigma of the film, then the contents themselves. Worth a look to the exploit-completist...6.5/10

Another impactful Japanese thriller from Yasaharu Hasebe, this mean-spirited rape/revenge flick pushed the sexual violence boundaries so far (even for Nikkatsu) that that they voluntarily put the brakes on the genre. However, it was briefly revived ten years later by Ohara's "Zoom Up: Rape Site". In this exercise in grimy nihilism, a rapist named 'Crimson' stalks and rapes a dancer with the help of an "apprentice". A final assault scene in an empty swimming pool (of a male) has to be seen to be believed, and echoes the homosexual biker rape in the same director's incendiary "Raping!". The blood and guts quotient is high and, technically, this is the most straightforward installment (stylistically) of the bunch, but is a confronting, unique pleasure.