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Shocking Asia

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Shocking Asia
Directed byRolf Olsen
Written byRolf Olsen
Ingeborg Stein Steinbach
Produced byWolfgang von Schiber
Music byErwin Halletz
Release date
  • 1974 (1974)
Running time
94 minutes
LanguageEnglish

Shocking Asia is a 1974 mondo documentary film written and directed by Rolf Olsen with Ingeborg Stein Steinbach. The film was banned in Finland due to its graphic content. A sequel titled Shocking Asia II: The Last Taboos was released in 1985.

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As with most other films of similar nature (such as Faces of Death 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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