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Review by Realkinoshit ★★
Some fucked up religious and culture stuff than turns into porn in the last 30 minutes.
*The transsexual surgery🫣
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Review by Dennis Vehlen ★★½
I mainly watched this because I’m a big fan of German director Rolf Olsen, but while I still want to see his earlier occultism-themed mondo films I didn’t have the best time with ‘Shocking Asia’. I had the same problem with this that I have with most mondo films or shockumentaries. When they’re not disgusting, they’re mostly just boring. This has some nasty animal cruelty and graphic sex change footage (I’m grateful for watching the cut version for once) as far as the shock value goes, but it also has long stretches of dull narration that go on much too long. I did like some of the Japanese segments near the end that dealt with a wacky sex hotel and midget wrestling, though.
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Review by 𝕷𝖎𝖟𝖟 ★★½
Shocking Asia is not quite so shocking at all.Probably this didn’t age so well because for me it was just a reminder of how humans kill and abuse animals.
Even though it shows some exotic traditions of Asia: like dancing with snakes, trans women and some prostitution, it’s pretty much average… Like a regular documentary. ️
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Review by Barry Skelly ★★★★
No artistic value whatsover, just a bunch of «mondo» skits all tied together by an official sounding narrator and is presented as some sort of wacky travel-log. Some of the scenes are obviously really fake and are terribly acted. Documentary does feature a few nasty bits however, such as the legit decomposing bodies on a river in the middle of India being picked apart by Vultures.
Film has its own «Crying Game» moment too. Won’t spoil that one.
Film is not as brutal as the «Shocking Africa» one. Some of that stuff is burned into my brain.
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Review by HS Pyo ★★
Mondo films have found themselves in a strange place due to their relatively recent widespread accessibility thanks to platforms like Youtube. No longer are mondo films like ‘Shocking Asia’ primarily stuck to circulating amongst genre enthusiasts via bootlegged VHSes. Now they are being algorithmically recommended by a catch-all suggestion system to whomever. More often than not, it seems these movies are uploaded under their foreign titles or a vague collection of adjectives that tend to hint at a video far more salacious. None seem to ever be labeled as mondos but instead as documentaries (which I guess isn’t entirely untrue) which is where the waters start to become a little murky for me.
For anyone familiar with exploitation cinema, particularly…
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Review by Tina Bobina ★½
Reminding me of the things I know, confirming how wrong you’ll always be. The mermaids are calling out in a soundless place, a time without ringing as the night carries their singing. Follow the fountain’s lull. Wish there shall be something soon.
Focus on me for an hour. The always girl — the last one you’ll ever see.
Someday you will die alone.
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Review by losman94 ★½
This Hong Kong/German co-production features graphic scenes of the Asian continent. We witness a mass piercing in India, cremated remains of human bodies dumped into the Ganges River in clear sight of bathers. The camera then shows Japanese sex clubs that reenact bizarre sexual rituals and bondage fantasies. There is also a graphic sex change operation in Singapore. There is also a dwarf, and female wrestling featured to round out the fun. This film was shown in many different versions as each market had a different set of acceptable standards. The film was shown in the US boxed with Mondo Magic
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Review by Tina Bobina ★★★
HERE WE GO AGAIN. There’s something crawling up my arm, a disease, a friend, another creature to do me harm. I’m hitting my head against the wall. Why haven’t I been reborn yet! How many lifetimes of this purple-hued haze, smoke-filled air and lifeless dogs litter the streets. Is this the belly of the beast? WHERE AM I?!?! My stomach is full… there’s nothing dangerous here… I’m uncomfortably comfortable, and it’s incredibly queer. There are mages upon the glass, blue eyes that steal from my hope, desperation in rivalry, a hat unmade through trickery, something malevolent through storms before the sea swells. There is an abyss in sight.
Scattered cuts, slight steel upon my skin, my thighs, my wrists, my…
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i’m glad women’s prowrestling made the cut
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Frustrating that a mondo film this racist and this steeped in condescending orientalism still has a better take on the trans experience than 90% of modern politicians.
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Review by Steffen Buchmann ★½
Lauwarme Nudelbox
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Review by Phil A. Mignon ★★½
Fun that one of the least shocking shock docs literally has «shocking» in the title! Not much to say that isn’t widely apparent but it hits all the mondo bits that one would want. Happy to add this to the mondo tape collection I have growing.
