Silver - shirubaa (1999 Video) User Reviews

TAKE HER TO THE SPECIAL ROOM!

[nogodnomasters · 5/10 · 2 June 2019]

The film opens with a Jun Silver's (buxom Atsuko Sakuraba) family being killed after a Japanese Gunnar Hansen impersonator exits the house with a bloody chainsaw. This was pretty good stuff, but that was the last we saw of him.

Silver knows karate, coin tossing, "wrastling" FBI stuff, and how to take a shower. She is recruited into the Japanese Secret Service by a former lover to fight perverse criminals outside the law. Their cover will be woman's wrestling which allows them to travel the country without suspicion, although she only had the one fight before dominatrix Nancy finds her out. The bad guy fighting was haphazard as was Dart, Agent 004 who protects her to kill her.

The film appeared to be some kind of kinky soft porn. It included S&M action, hot wax, upskirts, spanking and urination. Silver wears black and silver spandex while fighting. The genitals are pixilated out, including the one being beaten. The kinky subject matter is more suited for hard core porn. You've been warned.

Sex and nudity. Thank you Atsuko.

Wrestling manga

[BandSAboutMovies · 4/10 · 30 January 2022]

Jun Shirogane's entire family was murdered by criminals while she was at a karate tournament, which makes her the perfect first member of the Japanese secret police branch known as the Fear of God, getting the secret identity of Jun Silver and becoming a pro wrestler. Are you shocked that I loved this movie or surprised that it came from Takeshi Miike?

The first mission to stop Mistress Nancy Otori, who likes to tie up bank presidents and abuse them and then blackmail them, but when she two-times a member of the Viper's Nest, Silver gets the info she needs and is able to complete her mission.

If you love 1990s Japanese women's pro wrestling, Shinobu Kandori and Rumi Kazama - who formed Ladies Legend Pro-Wrestling - play themselves in this movie. This is also based on the manga by Hisao Maki, who also created Bodyguard Kiba and WARU, as well as the writer for the wrestling-related Lone Tiger, which has Richard Lynch as a promoter, and a man trying to find the man who killed his tiger mask-wearing wrestling father, which is funny, because Maki was the brother of Ikki Kajiwara, who created Champion Joe and more importantly, Tiger Mask, a character so famous that there's still a real-life version who is a member of the New Japan Pro Wrestling roster.

s & m meets women wrestlers

[khamva9 · 8/10 · 23 August 2004]

director takashi miike movies, if you are a fan, you know that he has a different talent which is unique about his movies. this movie is not that bizarre compared to his others that I have seen such as "vistor Q" "ichy the killer", "audition", "dead or alive", "rainy dog", "fudoh" and other great ones that are too many to list. Anyway, the story in "silver" is about women wrestler meets s & m. there is a mistress in leather and one scene of drinking urine and there are lots scene of whipping. The story is easy to follow, except at the beginning, I don't know how leatherface from "texas chainsaw massacre" got into this movie.

Beside that it is an okay movie and the character jun is hot.

Gonzo film-making on the cheap.

[chaos-rampant · 20 April 2008]

As a testament to Miike's productivity and versatility, in the same year that he finally broke big with Audition and Dead or Alive: Hanzaisha, he still had time to make a S&M-meets-martial arts cheapie like Silver. Truth be told, it's not very good. But it doesn't try to be, so no love lost I guess.

There's a very obvious made-for-TV/video feel and look that somehow suits the material and in the same time bellies Silver's intentions. And so does the paper thin storyline about a female wrestler/karate champ working as an undercover cop, trying to expose corruption in the higher echelons of Japanese society. The story is just a skeleton that Miike uses to hang on his S&M fetishes and cartoon-ish style, and the movie progresses through a series of loosely connected S&M and asskicking scenes. Heck, there's even a softcore scene complete with porn muzak and everything. As you can guess, Silver doesn't try to make a serious statement about corruption in society, even though a shoddy voice-over tries to sneak in a mention about "fear of god" and "not judging others".

Things are very simple here though. Silver is cheap and made to appeal to the fetish crowd. It's very low budget and unpolished (some bad CGI make it all the more obvious) but if BDSM with a dash of martial arts sounds cool to you then it's worth a look. I know I dug it. Plus it's very short too (clocking at a measly 78 minutes) so it doesn't outstay its welcome.