Japanese film query

[miso]

I know this is a long shot but could anyone identify this film from the plot outline. It's a Japanese film from the 70's I think and the story concerns a male intruder breaking into the nurses living quarters of a hospital and proceeding to skin alive and murder each nurse. As I recall, a voiceover at the end claims thiss to be based on a true story.
Gruesome I know but I'd love to know who the director was.
Any clues?

[mrhaljam]

Violated Angels (Okasaretu Byuakui) - 1967
dir: Koji Wakamatsu.
said to have been shot within a week of the nurse murders in Chicago.

[miso]

Thanks for that. Almost impossible to get a copy, although one place claim to have a copy for $200.

[eraritjaritjaka]

Thanks for that. Almost impossible to get a copy, although one place claim to have a copy for $200.

i wouldnt call it 'impossible'... ive seen it listed from cult/obscure dvd sites many times, in the $10-$15 dollar range. it can also be found on torrent trackers, for free.

beyond pinku, this same director was involved with the controversial documentary 'Sekigun-PFLP: Sekai senso sengen'.

The reason I went to shoot a documentary about the Palestinian guerrillas is, to be honest, the money. Because of that film, though, I was branded a terrorist; I’m still a wanted man. When I tried to get permission from them to film from the inside, they asked me if there were an emergency, would I pick up a gun or a camera. I said I’d grab a gun. After that, I was training to be a guerrilla every day. Dressed in guerrilla gear, drawing water, digging ditches, learning how to use and take apart a gun–all guerrilla training. They didn’t let me film at all. Then one day they finally let me film, that day only, so I had to do everything, filming and interviewing, in the space of a day. After I came down from the mountain, so to speak, I wanted to show this world to the Japanese public. When I tried to show the film, I became a marked man in the eyes of Interpol. Since then, I haven’t been able to travel outside of Japan, even though I’m such a nice guy.

[jce405]

Thinking of Koji Wakamatsu ... O'Rourke, of course, has been a big advocate of his work for a long time.



I can't figure out where I've seen this still before. From what research I've done, I can't seem to find anything. Any thoughts?