 Though Christianity was never a dominant religion in Japan, Japan did encounter Christian missionaries.By taking a minority religion as their subject, it has been suggested that these "shockingly perverse and wildly blasphemous" Catholic nun films are "a way of thumbing one's nose at organized religion without attacking the more sacred beliefs of the general society".Some entries in this genre include Norifumi Suzuki's "School of the Holy Beast" (1974), Masaru Konuma's "" (1976), Kōyū Ohara's "Sister Lucia's Dishonor" (1978), and "" (1979), Hiroshi Mukai's "" (1978), Nobuaki Shirai's "" (1980), and Mamoru Watanabe's "" (1981) and "" (1992).