Name: Taboos of the World
Released: 1965
Duration: 1 min 26 s
Cast: Vincent Price

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Also Known As

I tabù

Release Date

Mar 1965

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

Royal Film

Distribution Company

American International Pictures

Country

Italy

Technical Specs

Duration

1h 26m

Synopsis

Religious rites and taboos depicted include: the Muslim 5-minute divorce; a funeral on the sacred Ganges River; Catholic mass offered for a group of lepers; scenes of East Indian gurus, sacred cows and elephants, and a Buddhist priest and his mother. Sexual and medical topics include: childbirth, atom bomb victims, Japanese public bathing, and drug addicts selling their children into slavery or prostitution to support their habits. Other topics cover a wide variety of subjects: tattooing women in Japan, Laplanders drinking blood, Malaysians fishing in the mud, and a member of a secret Japanese society amputating his little finger as part of initiation.