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January 7 2026

RELIGIOUS DISORDER

Life in the nunnery is fingerbanging good.

We featured the above poster fifteen years ago as part of a collection of Japanese promos with nun themes, an interesting sub-genre of sexploitation cinema from that country. It was made for Shûdôjo Rushia: Kegasu, which was known in English as Sins of Sister Lucia, or sometimes Sexual Sanctuary. It’s about how hot-blooded nun Yuki Nohira, daughter of a crime figure and sexually experienced, is sent to a convent to keep her out of trouble, but is a corrupting influence on other nuns in the order. Or it seems that way at first.

When the Mother Superior commands Rei Okamoto to teach Nohira to behave, Nohira comes into conflict with Okamoto and others in a way that—of course—crosses into aggression, sexual assault, and more. But we soon learn that Nohira brought nothing new to the order after all. They were already freaky, getting down and dirty in ways that would make a geisha blush. When two escaped convicts sneak into the building all hell breaks loose, in that ’70s style that’s beyond taboo today.

As concepts go, the sleazemasters at Nikkatsu Studios must have felt that nuns were the apex. Japanese ticketbuyers got a lot of improbably hot, frustrated women living in close quarters, a dominance component built into the convent hierarchy, and the exotic lure of a foreign religion. To say the filmmakers took advantage is about as obvious a statement as we could make. You got a thing for penguins? Here you go. Just be prepared to say one thousand Our Fathers after watching this depraved workout. Shûdôjo Rushia: Kegasu premiered in Japan today in 1978.

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Modern Pulp, Vintage Pulp

August 25 2011

NUN CONFORMISTS

Japanese cinema’s love affair with the nun is a hard habit to break.

Japanese cinema loves its nuns, whether clothed or naked, dominant or submissive, or sometimes just copping a squat in the woods. So today for your enjoyment we have six sexploitation posters featuring these figures, spanning the years 1968 through 1980. Remember, just looking isn’t a sin. Title and star info appears at bottom.

From top to bottom: Wet and Rope with Yuki Nohira, Sins of Sister Lucia, also with Norhira, Tattooed Nun’s Dissolute Life with Jun Kosugi, Nunnery Confidential with Junko Fuji, A Nun’s Rope Hell with Naomi Oka, Humiliated Nun with Mihoko Kuga, and Black Clothed Nun’s Pain with Eri Kanuma. As you know by now, these films had no Western release, which means the English titles we’ve given are approximate, at best.

Edit 2024: Wet and Rope was released to DVD and given that title since we wrote this post. We’ve removed the old title (Wet Rope Confession) that we translated directly from the Japanese. Other films here may also have since been given official English titles. We’ll look into it.

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The headlines that mattered yesteryear.

March 15

1937—H.P. Lovecraft Dies

American sci-fi/horror author Howard Phillips Lovecraft dies of intestinal cancer in Providence, Rhode Island at age 46. Lovecraft died nearly destitute, but would become the most influential horror writer of all time. His imaginary universe of malign gods and degenerate cults was influenced by his explicitly racist views, but his detailed and procedural style of writing, which usually pitted men of science or academia against indescribable monsters, remains as effective today as ever.

March 15

2011—Illustrator Michel Gourdon Dies

French pulp artist Michel Gourdon, who was the less famous brother of Alain Gourdon, aka Aslan, dies in Coudray, France aged eighty-five. He is known mainly for the covers he painted for the imprint Flueve Noir, but worked for many companies and produced nearly 3,500 book fronts during his career.

March 14

1964—Ruby Found Guilty of Murder

In the U.S. a Dallas jury finds nightclub owner and organized crime fringe-dweller Jack Ruby guilty of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald. Ruby had shot Oswald with a handgun at Dallas Police Headquarters in full view of multiple witnesses and photographers. Allegations that he committed the crime to prevent Oswald from exposing a conspiracy in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy have never been proven.

March 13

1925—Scopes Monkey Trial Ends

In Tennessee, the case of Scopes vs. the State of Tennessee, involving the prosecution of a school teacher for instructing his students in evolution, ends with a conviction of the teacher and establishment of a new law definitively prohibiting the teaching of evolution. The opposing lawyers in the case, Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan, both earn lasting fame for their participation in what was a contentious and sensational trial.

March 12

1933—Roosevelt Addresses Nation

Franklin D. Roosevelt uses the medium of radio to address the people of the United States for the first time as President, in a tradition that would become known as his “fireside chats”. These chats were enormously successful from a participation standpoint, with multi-millions tuning in to listen. In total Roosevelt would make thirty broadcasts over the course of eleven years.

BABE IN THE WOODS

This idyllic scene for Folco Romano’s 1958 novel Quand la chair s’éveille was painted by Alain Gourdon, aka Aslan. You'd never suspect a book with a cover this pretty was banned in France, but it was.

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