A Hong Kong cop investigating an arms-running ring pursues his suspects into the deepest recesses of the Thai sex underworld. A potent mixture of eroticism and violence, this adult actioner features martial arts supertar Nishikawa.
Monday, August 9, 2010
Angel Guts 3: Nami (1979)
Nami Tsuchiya (Eri Kanuma) works as a reporter for the popular ladies magazine "The Woman". Recently she has been writing a series of articles based upon rape victims and how they have coped during the time since. When she goes to interview a stripper she becomes witness to a bizarre sex show which she finds unsettling, prompting her to leave despite a strange man telling her to see it through to the end. The next day, Nami goes to visit another rape victim and proceeds to take photographs until she confronts the same man from the sex club. His name is Muraki (Takeo Jii) and he claims to work for a huge publisher that specializes in pornography. Muraki warns Nami of her growing obsession with covering rape stories, fearing for her safety as the very thing she is reporting might one day haunt her. Nami continues to delve deeper into her research but soon becomes overpowered by fantasies of rape and horrifying hallucinations as she draws closer to a fate that would seem worse than death.
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Abnormal Family: Brother's Wife (1983)
Suo's debut was considered so scandalous that he wasn't offered another feature for six years. His 'crime' was to shoot a sex film as a pastiche of an Ozu family melodrama. A Tokyo widower (Osugi, impersonating Ozu's regular patriarch Chishu Ryu) has three grown-up kids. Koichi marries the bouncy Yukiko but soon lurches into an SM relationship with the local bar hostess and moves out. In his absence, brother Kazuo loses his virginity to Yukiko; sister Akiko starts working in a sex sauna and eventually marries its boss. Yukiko promises to go on looking after her father-in-law. The style parodies Ozu even more sharply than the storyline (non-eyeline-match cuts, clunky music cues, establishing shots used as punctuation) and the whole thing begins by mocking the Shochiku trademark.
Friday, August 6, 2010
Cuffs (The Lost Virgin)
Set over a 10 year time period, Cuffs stars the amazing actress Nikki Sasaki (Nurse Sisters: Pink Consulting Room), as a woman who loses her virginity at 18 during a one-off sexual encounter and then meets the man again five years later. They have sex and part only to meet up yet again five years later still.
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