Vintage Pulp

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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HISTORY REWIND

The headlines that mattered yesteryear.

February 17

1933—Blaine Act Passes

The Blaine Act, a congressional bill sponsored by Wisconsin senator John J. Blaine, is passed by the U.S. Senate and officially repeals the 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution, aka the Volstead Act, aka Prohibition. The repeal is formally adopted as the 21st Amendment to the Constitution on December 5, 1933.

February 17

1947—Voice of America Begins Broadcasting into U.S.S.R.

The state radio channel known as Voice of America and controlled by the U.S. State Department, begins broadcasting into the Soviet Union in Russian with the intent of countering Soviet radio programming directed against American leaders and policies. The Soviet Union responds by initiating electronic jamming of VOA broadcasts.

February 16

1937—Carothers Patents Nylon

Wallace H. Carothers, an American chemist, inventor and the leader of organic chemistry at DuPont Corporation, receives a patent for a silk substitute fabric called nylon. Carothers was a depressive who for years carried a cyanide capsule on a watch chain in case he wanted to commit suicide, but his genius helped produce other polymers such as neoprene and polyester. He eventually did take cyanideâ€”not in pill form, but dissolved in lemon juiceâ€”resulting in his death in late 1937.

February 15

1933—Franklin Roosevelt Survives Assassination Attempt

In Miami, Florida, Giuseppe Zangara attempts to shoot President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, but is restrained by a crowd and, in the course of firing five wild shots, hits five people, including Chicago, Illinois Mayor Anton J. Cermak, who dies of his wounds three weeks later. Zangara is quickly tried and sentenced to eighty years in jail for attempted murder, but is later convicted of murder when Cermak dies. Zangara is sentenced to death and executed in Florida’s electric chair.

February 14

1929—Seven Men Shot Dead in Chicago

Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone’s South Side gang, are machine gunned to death in Chicago, Illinois, in an event that would become known as the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. Because two of the shooters were dressed as police officers, it was initially thought that police might have been responsible, but an investigation soon proved the killings were gang related. The slaughter exceeded anything yet seen in the United States at that time.