Guinea Pig: Mermaid in a Manhole/He Never Dies (1986)

Long heralded as one of the most repulsively violent film series ever created, Satoru Ogura's controversial, extreme GUINEA PIG films were created to push graphic horror fans to the very limit of their tolerance for gore. This DVD contains two tales. In MERMAID IN A MANHOLE, an artist who has recently lost his wife finds a diseased and dying mermaid in a sewer. He brings her home and tries to help her. Though he is only able to watch her slowly die, she encourages him to use her body in the creation of his art. Based on an actual Tokyo police case, HE NEVER DIES looks at an investigation into a case of extreme suicide, in which a man appears to have survived an extraordinarily long time into the destruction of his own body. Be warned--GUINEA PIG contains much stronger violence than the average view is accustomed to...