The Excitement of the Do-Re-Mi-Fa Girl has Akiko (Yoriko Doguchi) searching for her hometown love, Yoshioka (Kenso Kato), who has left her behind as he goes to college. But now he’s a mystery, a nobody, a small fish in a much larger pond, and she finds herself in a strange place filled with people too smart for their own good, too sexed up and too strange, such as the professor (Juzo Itami) testing the limits of shame.

According to Japan Society, this was “shelved from a Nikkatsu Roman Porno release for being too bizarre and subsequently re-edited and re-shot.” Directed and cowritten by Kunitoshi Manda and Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Cure, Sweet Home), this is a sex comedy by way of a New Wave of its own by way of a final-act murder of nearly everyone we’ve met — spoilers, huh? — by a girl with a gun singing a lullaby, as well as a lead whose private parts emit some kind of blinding laser when revealed. This is one strange movie, and I love that it was turned in as if the audience for Nikkatsu’s sleaze would be cool with an art film that ends in fog and blood.

The Third Window Films Blu-ray of Bumpkin Soup has extras that include an interview with actress Yoriko Doguchi, a feature length audio commentary by Jasper Sharp, a video essay by Jerry White, author of The Films of Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Master of Fear, a slipcase with artwork from Gokaiju and a Directors Company’ edition featuring an insert by Jasper Sharp that’s limited to 2000 copies. You can learn more on the official site and order it in the U.S. from Terracotta and Diabolik DVD and in the UK from Planet of Entertainment and HMV.