The character and her story is traditionally attributed to a creator known as Seiun, though the plagiarism and retelling in sundry variants that was the norm for popular-proving tales make its true origin uncertain. The character is known to western and contemporary Japanese audiences predominantly by way of Suehiro Maruo 's ero guro reinterpretation in comics , first in a short story as part of an anthology and then in a full-length graphic novel of the same name published in English as Mr.
The graphic novel is considered a classic of Maruo's s-inspired brand of ero guro and its out-of-print English edition has become much sought-after. Harada's film is also infamous in itself and for the elaborate expanded cinema presentations it was originally only shown in, though it has been allowed to screen in conventional movie theaters and even released on home video outside of Japan. A live-action film adaptation of the manga was released in Japan in May Maruo's manga as well as its film adaptations follows the dark misadventures behind the colorful curtains and extravagant performances of the local funfair freak show , hidden away from the audience's smiles and praises.
Set in early 20th century Japan in a circus involving freaks such as "Hohichi the Human Pretzel" and "the Human Worm", one member who is a little girl has highlighted the misdeeds that occur during these events of the circus camps in her dark and twisted tale. In , a censored version of the film was produced for future screenings at the request of Eirin, the Japanese film censor board.
This version optically censored nudity, sexual assault, and violence towards animals, while removing discriminatory language from the audio track in the form of audio muting. For many years, a videotape transfer of the film was all that was known to exist of the film, aside from censored post film prints screened at various international film festivals.
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A new print and digital master were made from this negative and began to be screened in digital format in Japan numerous times. Harada's production company plans to release a restored Blu-ray Disc of the new film master in The film was single-handedly created by Hiroshi Harada. Given the subject matter, Harada had found it impossible to gain sponsors.
