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Film Review: ‘Japanese Wife Next Door’ (Inran naru ichizoku: Dai-ni-shô – zetsurin no hate ni – 2004) Sizzles with Passionate Neighborly Love

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Mar 152012

The Japanese Wife Next Door” by Yuraka Ikesime is the most Americanized ‘pink’ film I have reviewed thus far. I mean this is term of its storyline. The female lead, Reiko Yamaguchi, is even berated for been too ‘Americanized’ in her view of sexuality. Perhaps this observation is best left up to the viewer’s individual tastes and ideas. It is by far the least involved plot as far as story complexity and character depth of the other ‘pink’ films I have watched… but those factors aren’t necessarily why we are watching the film anyway. In any case, the story starts with ‘Sakura’ before she becomes the aforementioned wife next door.

We meet Takashi at the workplace where his colleges drag him out for a night of fun at a party. He meets two women, Sakura and Ryoko. Sakura comes across as Continue reading »

Film Review: Yôjirô Takita’s ‘Sexy Timetrip Ninjas’ (Chikan densha: Gokuhi honban – 1984) Transports Viewers to a Deadlier, Sexier Time

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Mar 082012

This Japanese film of the ‘pink’ variety delivers what it promises. There is a ‘timetrip’, some ninjas, and some sex. As a film reviewer I often get caught up in the details and forget to have fun. This film is fun. Sure the sets are terrible, the acting ‘hammy’, and the story is not going to win a Newberry Award any time soon, but this adds to the fun! If B-movies are your thing, Director Yojiro Takita film is definitely worth a look. It delivers what it promises – ninjas, sex, and a ‘timetrip’.

The movie opens as a period piece on the Osaka Castle in 1615. The obvious fact that it is a model cannot be overlooked. He we meet Lord Sanada as he summons Sasuke Sarutobi to his chambers for a meeting. It seems the castle Continue reading »

Film Review: Satô’s ‘New Tokyo Decadence: The Slave’ (Dorei – 2007) Based on the True Story of a Journey into the Bondage Underworld

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Mar 012012

This is the tale of a woman masochist who becomes a slave for a master. The film begins with the main character, the beautiful Rina (Rinako Hirasawa), hanging from a tree in the middle of a field. She tells us of her life in a flashback. I am not normally a fan of stories told from this point of view, but it works in this instance. Her monotone delivery actually adds to her character depth, as she is a slave. Now I must admit to some naivety in the S&M and bondage scene, so I was a little more interested into as why Rina was the way she was, then the sex, but the sex scenes were, well, captivating.

We meet young Rina who explains how she first discovered she was a masochist in high school. Her perverted math teacher can tell she is different from her classmates Continue reading »

Film Review: Kitazawa’s ‘Deep Contact’ (Pin-saro byôin 2: Nô-pan joi – 1998) Combines Paranormal Sex with a Thrilling End-of-the-World Scenario

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Mar 012012

1998’s “Deep Contact” directed by Yukio Kitazawa is very much a product of its time. The whole ‘feel’ of the film states it. The script was silly and the acting average for this type of thing. This is not a knock on the film by any means. On the contrary I found it most enjoyable, the ladies attractive and the sets non-existent. The music was dead on with synthesizers ripping a glorious homage to Queen from the “Flash Gordon” soundtrack during one scene. This music fit right in with the films plot.

We meet up with our reluctant hero running down the streets and alleyways attempting to flee some unknown pursuers. All the twists and turns can’t save him as he is set upon. The two men grab him and confirm his identity Continue reading »

Film Review: Shuji Kataoka’s ‘S&M Hunter’ (Kinbaku – 1986) Ropes Viewers in with Outrageous Exploitation Action

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Feb 282012

After having viewed a few of Japans Pink films recently, I started to get an understanding of how the films generally looked and were made. S&M Hunter thus far, has been the best all around Pink film I’ve seen to date from technical aspects to having a full, story.

A man’s partner is kidnapped by The Bombers, an all female gang looking to use men as their personal sex slaves. S&M Hunter takes the job of infiltrating the group, and finding the kidnapped guy, all the while using his rope skills to train the females to serve him. He saves the day, one of the women falls for him and he knows deep down their love can’t be because he has many women to train Continue reading »

Film Review: ‘Whore Angels’ (Pin-saro byôin 3: Nô-pan shinsatsushitsu – 2000) Promises Heaven but Cums Up Short

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Feb 262012

A deal has been set in place between humans and God with keeping peace in the world, but the contract must be renewed every thousand years. At time of renewal, the devil, a funny looking demon with horns named Rock and Roll, tries to stop the deal from taking place by having sex with Monroe.

One night, a woman finds Monroe being chased by Rock and Roll, saves her, but gets beat up pretty badly in the process. The next morning, Monroe kisses her to make it all better, and her wounds are gone. So the girl brings Monroe back to work at Hot Lips, a local “massage parlor”, where she is known throughout the land as the woman with the healing mouth. But Rock and Roll isn’t fully defeated Continue reading »

Film Review: ‘Sexy Battle Girls’ (Nerawareta gakuen: seifuku o osou – 1986) Takes Softcore Porn to Exciting Heights with Anime-Style Action

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Feb 232012

In recent years, we’ve seen a lot of crazy films coming from Japan like Machine Girl and Tokyo Gore Police, that have upped the gore factor in cinema, but also make the audience anticipate the next “out there” idea they’re going to come up with. Surprisingly, 1986’s Sexy Battle Girls gave me some thrills in the same exact way, and gave me an insight into what was probably the inspiration for a lot of the Japanese trash cinema directors out there now.

Mirai, a young girl who has to forever wear a high tech chastity belt, is transferred to a new school by her father. While there, she uncovers an underground human trafficking ring set up by the head master and his head detective Continue reading »

Film Review: Daisuke Goto’s ‘Blind Love’ (Waisetsu sutêji: Nando mo tsukkonde – 2005) Elevates Japanese Pink Cinema with Ventriloquism & Love

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Feb 222012

Let’s be honest. When I sat to review the 2005 ‘pink’ film “Blind Love”, written and directed by Daisuki Goto, I was expected the usual. A thinly plotted, poorly acted affair. What I got was a surprise. This is the story of a lonely man, a self -described “ventriloquist on the cutting edge”, who falls in love. Our story begins with Daisuki meeting up with his estranged wife on his way to perform. After some reunion sex, we see our hero at work. He has an apprentice, Yoichi, who helps him and is learning the trade and maybe his only friend. Enter the blind woman, Hikari. She approaches him back stage after a show with praise and flowers. Startled, Daisuki allows Yoichi to stand in for him as his body. Daisuki has height issues and only speaks for himself.

What then happens is an odd take on Cyrano de Bergerac, with Daisuki romancing Hikari by proxy. Things get out of hand when Yoichi ignores his master’s wishes and copulates with Hikari while Continue reading »

Film Review: Shinya Tsukamoto Returns with Experimental Metal Actioner ‘Tetsuo – The Bullet Man’ (2009)

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Dec 162011

FINALLY! The Iron man is back! With a vengeance! And in… English? WTF? Then again, we always knew that if there was another Tetsuo movie there would be lots of WTFs. Twenty-two years after the original Tetsuo and nineteen after the sequel, Shinya Tsukamoto finally returns to the wonders of biomechanical psychopathics and more loving fusions of flesh and metal.

An American man living in Japan with his Japanese wife and their son is struck by grief when a mysterious man kills the young boy by running him over with a car. As this is a Shinya Tsukamoto movie this event triggers something in our hero, making him turn into a metal beast and he starts searching in his past to why Continue reading »

Film Review: Nishimura’s ‘Helldriver’ (2010) Drives Levels of Splatter & Comedy to New Heights

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Nov 222011

After a meteorite makes impact with Japan, it sends alien spores into the atmosphere, infecting humans with a virus that mutates them into flesh-eating fiends with little horns protruding from their foreheads. Japan, as the world knows it, ceases to exist and in its place is an island nation divided into two parts by a massive wall, effectively separating the living from the infected (read: zombies). To make matters worse, the horns of the dead are being illegally harvested, dried, ground up and sold on the black market as a new drug.

Factions within the current Japanese government are intent on halting the advance of the horde by putting together a special team, lead by Kika, and sending them into the infected zone. Their mission Continue reading »

Film Review: Miike’s ‘Imprint’ (Revisited – 2006) Gives Showtime Ent. & Cable TV Weak Knees with Disturbing Content

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Nov 192011

Takashi Miike is one of those directors where if he makes something brilliant, it’s brilliant. If he makes something horrible, it’s torture to sit through. But then there’s films he makes, that you have no idea what to make of them, or have an inkling to the way you feel about what you’re watching. Imprint, from the Masters of Horror series, falls in the last category as I’m still pondering what it was exactly that I watched and have no real opinion on if I enjoyed it or not.

Christopher (Billy Drago) travels back to Japan in search of a woman he once fell in love with, Komomo (Michie). He chooses a girl (Youki Kudoh) who stays in the shadows due to her deformed face. She tries to please Christopher Continue reading »

Film Review: Yamamoto’s ‘Vampire Doll’ (Chi wo sû ningyô: Yûrei yashiki no kyôfu – 1970) Chills to the Bone with Gorgeous Visuals

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Oct 292011

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A young man travels to the countryside to meet his fiancé, Yuko. When he arrives at the secluded house he is told by her mother that she has died in a car accident. He spends the night at the house and hears some strange sounds at night, even seeing someone that looks just like his dead love. Later he sees Yuko outside the house and follows her to a grave with her name. Cut to some days later where the young man’s sister is worried since she hasn’t heard from him in some time. She persuades her boyfriend to take her to the house, but is told that he already left. For the sake of proper plot development she doesn’t believe Yuko’s mother and fakes the car breaking down so that they can investigate what really happened. Cue eerie Japanese vampire. Yum yum.

Vampire doll is a fine piece of Gothic horror, straight out of the Hammerverse with an atmosphere worthy of Terence Fisher, yet firmly located in the Japanese horror folklore Continue reading »

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