Summaries

Synopsis

The title sets the film in the wake of "Mondo Cane" (1962), and the subtitle underlines the horror of some scenes. The poster and the narration claim this is a documentary, but most scenes are docudramas. The film features:

an African boy lying on the desert, presumably dead;

a dog fight;

a nudist camp of the Association for Public Health, Zurich, Germany;

male and female bodybuilding;

a Paris show of women wrestling, with stripping and biting allowed;

models posing in lingerie for art photography;

African musicians and a girl dancer on a beach;

Japanese "ama" (girl divers) eating topless on the beach, before collecting seaweed underwater;

algae used in a Japanese beauty massage parlor;

jogging and bicycling in a European setting;

autopsy of a negro young man (a gay who died of AIDS, according to the Italian narration);

Indian men washing clothes as a job;

Japan karate training;

Hindu men jumping into a well three-store high to show their bravery;

a traditional horse game in Kyrgyzstan in which two teams of riders try to use an animal carcass (in this case, a duck) into the opposing team's end-zone;

acupuncture in China;

forbidden full body tattooing in Japan;

Thailand street show of ripping open and skinning a snake to extract pieces for food;

China shop specialized in aphrodisiacs taken from live and dead animals;

catching by hand, and killing small tortoises on the beach, feed on their fresh entrails;

body massage on a nude European woman;

in Khajuraho, the temples with erotic sculptures are (according to film inserts) visited by local mothers and their children;

Japan temple dedicated to love;

brief lesbian scene between Europeans;

a therapist uses a live white mouse in front of the mouth of the person to be cured;

a swastika in shown on the entrance of an Hindu temple;

Thai dance, with inserts of an elephant being washed up by his trainer;

at Varanasi, the ritual cremation of cadavers;

vultures feeding on remains of bodies in a river;

bats on tree branches by daylight, their blood is said to be yet an aphrodisiac;

mud bath to catch fishes by hand, a variety said to be also an aphrodisiac;

downtown Tokyo, sushi is served on a nude girl at an erotic restaurant;

a blonde lady tourist chases a young local man in Hawaii;

Indian aged women prepare cow dung as pies, for later use as manure and fuel;

Indian men and women touching the tail and the buttocks of sacred cows;

in South America, an industrial slaughterhouse still uses wood mallets to kill the bovines;

Japan mini-apartments for single persons look like the living quarters in a submarine;

Indians sleeping on the streets;

street barbers in India;

Nepalese boy initiation into the life of a monk;

visit to the Temple of the Reclining Buddha, in Bangkok;

Indian youths' arms and legs are twisted by their parents, to prepare them to be acrobats (and inserts imply they cause body malformations);

in India, a male bodybuilding competition is (according to film inserts) enjoyed by a women only audience;Japanese traditional communal baths shared by families;

several Asian full body massage parlor, one of which includes a blowjob;

masked men preside an initiation ceremony into the yakuza, and (with a film insert) a man's little finger is chopped off (with a little blood);

sexual therapy includes electroshock on a nude young man, as he watches erotic pictures;

phallic symbols in traditional carved rocks, and modern art objects;

India nightclub with a male transvestite dancing and juggling with glasses on a tray;

a male transvestite pushes drugs to male customers in a Japanese club;

Japanese shop specializes in articles for transvestites;

a male transsexual is operated to become a woman (visual effects adding the gore);

a European woman wants to have larger breasts, and seeks medical help;

a second autopsy, allegedly to prove there were drugs hidden in the body of a drug career;

a nude man tiptoeing out of a house to meet a nude woman neighbor on the roof tiles, is part of a porn film that ends this docudrama.