1974 documentary film directed by Rolf Olsen
Shocking Asia |
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Directed by | Rolf Olsen |
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Written by | Rolf Olsen Ingeborg Stein Steinbach |
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Produced by | Wolfgang von Schiber |
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Music by | Erwin Halletz |
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Running time | 94 minutes |
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Language | English |
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Shocking Asia is a 1974 mondo documentary film written and directed by Rolf Olsen with Ingeborg Stein Steinbach. The film was banned in Finland due to its graphic content. A sequel titled Shocking Asia II: The Last Taboos was released in 1985.
Content
As with most other films of similar nature (such as Faces of Death and Traces of Death), Shocking Asia does not follow a traditional narrative structure, instead neglecting plot for images and video footage of bizarre and macabre situations such as animal cruelty, strange rituals, footage of deformed children and a sex change operation. Most of the clips used are claimed to be real, although this has yet to be verified.
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