The initial information I received and the confirmation
from CPM are listed below, followed by a detailed report from Rusty Smith.
Several minutes (About 13!) of footage were cut, removed, and in general
edited to avoid legal troubles with a pair of US cities who have strict
laws against anything relating to golden shower and scat imagery. Also,
some translations were changed to keep these edited scenes flowing normally.
Yakin Byoutou Karte features several scenes that were removed to avoid
trouble with these unnamed cities. Much as I can understand that cuts
were necessary, I believe that the cuts made were largely unnecessary,
as similar material has been released before in this country without
problems.
Episode 1: Four scenes were cut, totaling about 3 minutes. The second
scene didn't need to be cut, as it only related to defecation, and didn't
involve it. The third scene could have been cut far less if they only
removed about 20 seconds worth of the urination footage, but, what should
we expect from the US release...? This episode did lose the least amount
of footage, but it's far from getting things off to a good start, believe
me. Also of note, is that at one point, Central Park Media actually
-adds- footage, when compared to the initial pressing Region 2 DVD!
The scene where Hirasaka and Ren wait for the elevator in the Japanese
disc is pretty much stationary and silent. In the CPM release, Hikaru
(the brown haired, pig tailed, very genki nurse from episode 4) rushes
past, chasing after a few kids, telling them to slow down. The scene
is sort of funny really, but it's not on the Japanese DVD... So, I really
don't know where it's from. I've yet to see any additional footage in
Episode 2 and 3, however, and it doesn't actually affect the runtime
any.
The first scene is when Hirasaka brings Ren to orgasm by inserting
his finger in to her anus. She then has an orgasm, and evidently from
being busy all day, is unable to hold her bladder. She urinates all
over both his hand and the chair, and after chuckling about what a vulgar
bitch Ren is, he licks his finger, and then throws her to the floor.
Of special note is that they actually use the soundtrack from some of
this cut footage, and re-translate his line about it being "Good
and salty" to make it seem like he's simply licking up her vaginal
secretions. Quite a bit of Hirasaka calling Ren a 'nasty whore' and
the like is lost in this process, and his little pun about how she gave
him a flower, so he'll take hers in return, is also sadly absent.
(Far worse sequences than this were left uncut in Shusaku Replay, among
other shows, so this is a good example of CPM being extremely careful
when they probably didn't have to be. Unlike most of the other urination
footage, the vagina isn't visible, making this scene pretty soft core
for a show of this nature. Regardless, CPM cut it, despite Critical
Mass and NuTech, among other companies, leaving far worse footage in.)
The second scene was the start of Hirasaka's experiment. He tells her
that he's convinced her anus is her most sensitive area, and fills her
bowels with water with a shower hose. Her stomach balloons up, and it
cuts back to Hirasaka putting Ren on the chair, her stomach still somewhat
bloated.
(This scene was cut because it relates to a very brief image in the
third edit of some brown liquid seeping from her anus. A needless cut,
in other words.)
The third scene is edited almost seamlessly, unlike the rest of the
cuts. I didn't even notice it the first time I watched it, despite the
soundtrack seeming unfamiliar. After Naoya sees Ren impaled on Hirasaka,
there are several shots of Ren releasing the still clear water he had
sprayed inside her intestines. Besides this, her vagina also leaks lots
of secretions on to the floor. The enema water is transparent, it doesn't
at all appear to have any fecal matter in it. The soundtrack is, as
is to be expected by now, flopped around so the music has to do as little
skipping as possible. The CPM version cuts back in to when the speculum
falls out of Ren's vagina.
(Okay, this, is crap. The fact is, there's no implication that there
is any feces from the previously cut enema, and as other scenes have
proved before, Ren excretes a lot of vaginal lubricant when she's excited.
Much as she feels guilty about it, Naoya seeing it turns her on, hence
the sudden, gush, of liquid. Besides that, she simply can't hold the
water in her intestines in anymore, and it spews out of her anus. The
cut was unnecessary on all accounts - since when has water been an offensive
substance?)
The fourth edit is pretty much an entire scene missing. Once Ren turns
around, and is obviously starting to enjoy her rape, she starts to buck
up and down on Hirasaka. As the series will have a habit of doing, they'll
get a freeze frame, screw with the soundtrack for a while, and then
fade to the credits. The scene is supposed to continue, Ren leaking
a little urine here and there, and after a lengthy, noisy anal sex scene,
she urinates as she climaxes. Hirasaka then leaves her to sit in her
own urine, as some oddly colored fluid seeps from what appears to be
her anus. Naoya stands, now untied, and walks to her, looking mortified.
He tries to put his hand on hers, and she pulls away, starting to cry,
saying she's been harmed too badly. Naoya just watches as the girl curls
up in to a fetal position and cries, Hirasaka smirking the whole while.
(This edit, in all fairness, is one of the most graphic scenes of urination
I had ever seen - until the next 4 episodes of this series, anyway.
Even in shows like Shusaku, we never see the vagina during urination,
and watching people kneel down and basically crawl around in it isn't
something we usually see in hentai released in the states. Still, they
could have clipped far less footage and just made it look like she had
a normal orgasm, and erased the sight of urine in general without losing
the dialogue and at least the sounds of her crying. Ren is a nymphomaniac,
but she feels bad that she got off doing something so dirty in front
of the boy she loves regardless. The edited version makes her seem both
more heartless, and like she has even less control than she really does
when around Hirasaka. CPM really dropped the ball on this one, and I'm
afraid it's not getting any better from here on out.)
Episode 2: The final scene from this episode was cut completely, meaning
that about 4 minutes of footage was lost. However, the rest of the scenes
weren't edited at all, which is a plus. This is one of those times where
I'll admit, cuts were almost guaranteed for a US release, no matter
who released it. However, I can't help but feel that CPM was begin very
lazy, as enema torture is a pretty common theme in a few shows released
by NuTech Digital, including Seek of Cool Devices fame, and both Shusaku
and the sequel Shusaku Replay. If the actually sequences of urination
and defecation were removed (only about 35-45 seconds worth, tops),
or maybe replaced with other shots and the sound left intact, there
should have been no problems on the legal front. CPM chose to cut the
scene entirely, however, and thus not only is Hirasaka not nearly as
sadistic or frightening, but it makes Remi's character seem a lot more
willing to be Hirasaka's personal toy than she ought to be.
The scene, in brief, goes something like this; after Hirasaka tells
her they're going to perform an experiment, he pulls the woman in to
the next room by the ropes, and hands Remi an enema syringe. She begs
him to stop, and he reminds her that a murdering nurse has no right
to judge him. She puts the plastic tubing up her anus, and crying, very
graphically injects herself. Hirasaka grabs a bucket, and a fish tank
filter motor, and continues pumping water in to her belly that way,
watching her stomach bloat. He then urinates in to the bucket, and laughs
at her while she whimpers and cries. He then croons on about how she
wants to suck him, and though she denies it, she performs oral sex on
him anyway. Once Hirasaka ejaculates in her mouth, he tells her to go,
and screaming for the toilet, Remi dashes for it, but her anus gives
out half way there. She defecates diarrhea all over the floor, and hiding
her face, whimpering, Hirasaka appears behind her, and smirks, wondering
aloud what the next experiment should be.
(Again, this scene could have been left in, if only the actually urination
and defecation footage was removed. It's a shame CPM decided to cut
so much of it, as this scene is really a great insist in to Hirasaka's
twisted psyche, and is giving us a taste as to the nasty deeds he's
more than willing to perform in Fujisawa Ako next episode. The scene
of Hirasaka urinating is brief, and could have easily been removed,
and it would have been easy to use alternate footage of Remi and Hirasaka's
faces' to hint at what obviously must be going on.)
Episode 3: This episode was the most edited one thus far, but if CPM
gets the rights to episode's 4, 5, 5.5 and 6, I'm sure they'll break
this record as well. About 6 and a half to 7 minutes (!) of footage
was removed from this episode, and contrary to popular belief, not all
of it has to do with bodily waste. Nor did the first episode's cut,
but... There were a total of 2 scenes heavily edited, and one basically
removed entirely.
The first scene to be edited is the footage of Hirasaka and Ren in
the fountain at night. (Reporters note: This is one of my favorite scenes
in any hentai, in that it managed to be beautifully romantic and wonderfully
sick at the same time.) Footage of Hirasaka using a garden hose to administer
an enema, Ren drinking Hirasaka's urine and performing oral sex on him
while he urinates, Hirasaka having anal sex with Ren as she urinates,
and lots of simple straight sex, often involving urine in one way or
another was cut. It's also much of the same animation cut from episode
1 with a new color scheme, at that! All in all, about 2 minutes of sex
was removed. When Hirasaka questions Ren, CPM used different shots and
overdubbed the footage - poorly, as we'd expect by now. Hirasaka was
actually supposed to speak in this scene, and then reward Ren with a
golden shower.
(Okay, Ren is urinating a lot in this scene, and watching her drink
urine is just nasty, even by my usually liberal standards. That still
doesn't mean a lot of the only vaguely graphic sex scenes couldn't have
been kept, and I'm sure that several shots of Hirasaka and Ren having
standing sex could have been kept if they zoomed away from Ren's genitals
to her breasts and face. Regardless, we nearly lost it all. A pity.)
The second scene to be edited occurs after Ako is tied to the chair.
This scene was HEAVILY edited, so please, bear with me as I try to explain;
after she wakes up, she's supposed to ask him what the heck he's doing,
and he replies he's giving her a checkup. He finds her to be having
her period, and while she's disgusted, Hirasaka removes her tampon,
sighing about how she must not be a virgin. She tells him that she is,
it's just the heavy work load makes sanitary napkins a bother. He chuckles,
and sticks the tampon up her nose. Here's where CPM's footage cuts back
in, though we don't know why she's crying in pain, or what she wants
him to 'take out'. The audio no longer matches up with the video at
all, and several shots of Ako's face are edited to hide that she had
her tampon in her nose, including her shocked expression as he ejaculates
on her face. Finally, he inserts a marble in to her vagina, and the
CPM version cuts back in, with an altered subtitle track to cover up
the marble bit. Also, much of her crying, particularly for her parents
towards the end of the scene, are lost.
(So much for it being strictly legal reasons... This scene, disgusting
as it is, is one of the more important scenes in the series in terms
of showing what a bastard Hirasaka is. Here's a poor virgin he utterly
humiliates and viciously rapes, while she's on the rag, no less. This
material is certainly offensive, but that's, what, we're here for! Cutting
the marble scene was to be expected, though, as it relates to the final
scene that CPM cut entirely. All in all, I was very disappointed to
see CPM cut footage that is not illegal, simply to avoid controversy.
This sort of menstrual humiliation isn't all that uncommon in Japanese
pornography, and the cutting they did to it just makes Ako sounds like
a slut in the edited version, wanting nothing more than Hirasaka inside
her, rather than an innocent girl who's begging to be rescued from this
perverse madman. Almost all of her struggling and crying ends up being
cut, and with no explanation of her period because of the tampon issue,
we don't see why she's bleeding even before he penetrates her. All in
all, a pathetic hack job of a scene that could have been left alone.)
The final scene from episode 3 is removed entirely, and it's perhaps
the most infamous scene this series can claim to have, even topping
the later 'boiled egg torture' in future episodes. Where in the CPM
version Hirasaka hisses to himself about 'What a naive girl she is',
the original version has him ask about the marble. She, embarrassed,
admits she can’t get it out. He takes her to the next room, and
acting very kind and gentle about the whole thing, has her kneel on
the bench. Using a speculum, he puts more marbles in rather than takes
them out, and he inserts several in to her anus as well. She tries to
escape, and he ties her hands together, laughing at her as he puts her
on the ground, and has sex with her dog style, the marbles still in
her. At her protest, he administers an enema, and once he's ejaculated
inside her, he ties her to his office chair with red tape, and continues
pumping her anus full of water. Erect again, he has sex with her as
he pumps water in her, and unable to do much else, she finally admits
it's starting to feel good. Hirasaka has sex with her until he once
again has an orgasm, and he kicks the chair, and Ako in the process,
to the floor. She shoots brown water and marbles several feet in the
air, and she lies there, crying. Hirasaka says it's beautiful as the
marbles fall to the floor. (The sobbing you hear at the end credits
on CPM's release is from the final moment, after Hirasaka's impressed
compliment.)
(...Yeesh. Okay, I admit it, there's no easy way to cut this one without
replacing the soundtrack. Again, the sight of an enema seems to be taboo
to CPM, though there's a lot of footage here that could have stayed.
I'd have rather had choppy music than miss this landmark scene entirely,
even if I'd have to miss out on all the 'impressive' crap spewing footage.
However, I'll admit that, unlike the second edit CPM gave us, this one
actually has some grounds to be cut. It's a shame they had to end it
without Hirasaka ravaging her again, though. CPM's Hirasaka isn't nearly
as sleazy as he should be, and their Ako is just pathetic... To think,
this show was marketed by the company that cut it as "The most
shocking adult anime ever!")
All in all, CPM's hack job they called Night Shift Nurses is a sad
shadow of the taboo-screwing original show Yakin Byoutou Karte, but
I guess I should be thankful we get to see it without mosaics at all.
Regardless, the editing of enema footage and menstruation humiliation
was absolutely unnecessary, and shows that CPM was covering their tush
a lot more than they needed to. I'm glad somebody had the gall to release
this show at all, but my hopes aren't exactly high for seeing more of
this sort of material in the US. Frustrating as mosaic censorship may
be, it's better to have mosaiced sex in a hentai title that nearly no
sex at all.
Uncut Versions: You can buy Region 2's from Japan for about 6090 Yen
a piece under the title "Yakin Byoto Karte". Despite a lot
of licensing issues to work out, all 6 episodes are currently available
in Japan on DVD and special order VHS, as well as an "Episode 5.5"
special floating around somewhere. The only other uncut legal release
I'm aware of is a set of 3 licensed Video CD in Hong Kong of just the
first 3 episodes. They're still digitally censored, in Japanese with
burned in Chinese subtitles, and due to format limitations aren't as
god as the Japanese DVD's. They are, however, a fraction of the price
of the Region 2's, can be played worldwide, and are currently about
the best option available to see this show as it was supposed to be
seen. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for an uncensored German DVD, but
to this day, I haven't seen one.
