''Shocking Asia'' is a 1974
mondo documentary film
A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in te ...
written and directed by
Rolf Olsen with Ingeborg Stein Steinbach. The film was however banned in
Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bo ...
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
''Faces of Death'' (later re-released as ''The Original Faces of Death'') is a 1978 American mondo horror film written and directed by John Alan Schwartz, credited under the pseudonyms "Conan Le Cilaire" and "Alan Black" respectively.
The fi ...
'' 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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1974 films
Mondo films
1974 documentary films
Hong Kong documentary films
German documentary films
1970s English-language films
1970s German films
1970s Hong Kong films
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