“The Lady in the Sea of Blood” ("血の海の美女") is a series of Japanese
underground Horror short films from 1997, written and directed by Japanese
filmmaker Takeshi Okimoto. For years, the series was considered a rumor or
thought to be lost forever due to the complete lack of information about its
production.
Plot.
Comprising five segments, each about 30 minutes long, “The Lady in the Sea of
Blood” depicts five different Japanese women engaging in erotic acts involving
copious amounts of blood inside a bathroom.
Virality.
Produced by Film Corps (電影軍団), the series gained traction online on deep web forums,
Reddit, and 4chan among users desperately searching for “Saki Sanobashi” or
“Go for a Punch” (a supposed extreme horror anime set in a bathroom that
ultimately turned out to be a fake creepypasta), who began unearthing
genuinely dark material from Japan. Although "Lady in the Sea of Blood" wasn’t
the material they were looking for, researchers and YouTubers in this niche
shared the discovery, bringing the series of short films out of complete
obscurity.
Illegal distribution.
The first and second films was preserved and released by a notorious,
now-defunct bootleg distributor called Twistedanger. The company operated in
the gray market, specializing in selling unauthorized copies of extreme
films, Japanese rarities, and mondo documentaries.
Twistedanger released the short films under the outlandish title
"Collector's Mentally Unstable Edition". As was common practice among these
underground distributors, the cover art was sensationalist, and the actual
credits were often omitted or altered, which made it extremely difficult to
identify the series' true origin for decades.
So far, only parts 2 and 3 have been found, along with fragments of the first
part.
