bamboo house of doll ( 1973 and 1974 or 1977 and various year be give for this title ) be a hong kong veteran chin hung kuei ( killer snake and boxer omen and payment in blood etc . ) woman in prison flick produce by the legendary shaw brother . yes and even they get their hand into low exploitation sickies like this and and bamboo be definitely among the bad attempt of the whole genre and even when compare to the western attempt that usually pale in comparison with the eastern film . the story be about a japanese war camp in which the chinese woman be brutalize and abuse and rap by the bad japanese ( what else . ) during the world war ii . the girl also know a secret place in which a box full of gold be hide and also learn that a chinese military officer raise in japan ( shaw veteran lo lieh ) be actually now an undercover agent among the other japanese and naturally help the girl escape the hell . what follow be sequence full of gratuitous nudity and female kung fu and some nasty torture and gore and sleaze and extremely offensive anti japan attitude that make this film pure and honest garbage that doesn not even try to be more than it be . there be hardly any interesting element in bamboo house of doll . the occasional photography especially at the end look nice with it sunbeam and beautiful nature but that about it in the merit department . the fight scene be plenty and always include half naked female hit and kick each other . the violence overall be quite nasty at time with several bullet wound and misogynistic torture scene ( for example and one poor girl be brutalize on the floor fill with broken glass etc . ) and extremely repulsive end and moral behind it . of course it be stupid to talk about moral when write about this kind of film and but still there be element i would not accept to be find from any film . the film have also some enjoyable turkey element for sure . for example and the gold box and fill with heavy gold and seem suspiciouly light a the weak and suffer girl do not seem to have any problem lift and move it and not to speak of throw it . also those numerous skin fight scene make this quite smile inducing for fan of trash cinema . i have see the same director killer snake ( 1973 ) which be ten time more noteworthy a a piece and even though it have many alive snake kill for real and it be also visually more interesting and show u some nasty side of the other side of the big city and society . also and it be a must for those who fear snake . bamboo house of doll have suffer some censorship and too and which isn not a surprise consider the subject matter . the uncut version and ( dub into a non english language ) release in europe at least in france and italy and switzerland and run 104 pal minute while the cut and english dub print release in holland and belgium and greece run only 84 minute in pal . from what i have hear and the cut scene be not only violence or other graphic stuff but also dialogue and plot development and the like . bamboo house of doll be garbage cinema in it most trashy form and definitely something i wouldn not have like to see from the shaw brother or hong kong in general . some of the italian exploitation film of the same subject matter be much more interesting and noteworthy than this quite ridiculous and calculated and worthless piece of cinema exploitation . negative .