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Naomi Tani,
Nagatoshi Sakamoto,
Terumi Azuma,
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Masaru Konuma,
Masaru Konuma
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: Not Rated
: KimStim
: Foreign, Japan, Quest, Revenge, Erotica
: 80 min.
: Japanese
: English
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Masaru Konuma directs this 1970s landmark of Japanese exploitation cinema, a wildly over-the-top softcore S&M drama based on a book by famed erotic writer Oniriku Dan. Kunishada (Nagatoshi Sakamoto) is an unabashed pervert. One day, he happens upon his kimono-clad ex-wife, Akiko (Naomi Tani), kidnaps her, and drags her to a secluded old house up in the mountains. At first he merely ties her up and humiliates her, but after she cuts him with a razor the real horror show begins. Soon Akiko finds herself tied up in a variety of exotic knots and covered in hot wax. Later, after an escape attempt ends in Akiko being raped by two darkhearted hunters, she awakens sexually and starts to enjoy her debasement. About the same time, Kunishada discovers a suicide victim in a cave. What starts as a pleasant necrophilic fling abruptly ends when he realizes that the would-be suicide Kaoru (Terumi Azuma) is not quite dead. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide
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| Excellent, but not for the squeamish
by FFaso
August 18, 2006 - 1:42 PM PDT
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1 out of 2 members found this review helpful
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It's easy to see how someone might think this story, as they might the great In the Realm of the Senses, a sick, sick story. The male protagonist is sick, but the movie certainly isn't. It's graphic, disturbing, entertaining in a debauched way every single second it's on, but the characters and their motivations--accomplished by great acting, by the way, by the actors deep understanding of their abberant characters and giving honest performances--are so clear and so deeply felt that as the movie comes to a close one is shocked by the wife's a-normal desires and the almost existential as hell ending as the protagonist walks off in what is supposed to be, I think, sincere innocence and avuncular love--either that, or I missed the meaning entirely.
But see it--if you're not squeamish about images or content--the movie's meaning.
Not a second of this movie feels empty and hollow as soft-porn always is, which makes you regret having rented it.
Soft-porn is never disturbing because the characters aren't real and there's nothing at stake.
This movie really surprised me. It's "sick"--but in a good way--if you have the stomach for it, that is. |
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