Hatsujô kateikyôshi: sensei no aijiru (2003)

Director:

Mitsuru Meike

Writer:

Takao Nakano (writer)

Release Date:

14 October 2003 (Japan)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Fantasy

Plot:

The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai is a Pink Film (a Japanese softcore pornography genre). Sachiko Hanai (Emi Kuroda) is a call girl...

Plot Keywords:

Female Frontal Nudity | Cellphone | Sperm | Father Son | Shot In The Forehead

Cast

Kyoko Hayami
Kikujiro Honda
Yukijiro Hotaru	...	Toshio
Yuichi Ishikawa
Takeshi Ito	...	Kim
Youta Kawase
Yoshimi Kinuta
Shinji Kubo	...	President George W. Bush
Emi Kuroda	...	Sachiko
Masataka Matsubara
Tetsuaki Matsue
Kanae Mizuhara
Yuji Motoi
Masayoshi Nogami
Mutsuo Yoshioka

Directed by
Mitsuru Meike

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Takao Nakano		writer

Produced by
Haruki Iwata	....	co-producer
Nakato Kinukawa	....	producer
Kyoichi Masuko	....	producer
Kazuto Morita	....	producer

Original Music by
Taro Kataoka
Tarô Kishioka

Cinematography by
Hiroshi Ito

Film Editing by
Naoki Kaneko

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Takuya Nagai	....	first assistant director

Visual Effects by
Yasuhiko Shimizu	....	visual effects supervisor

Camera and Electrical Department
Sachi Kagami	....	assistant camera
Shigeru Matsushita	....	assistant camera
Miki Nakajima	....	assistant camera
Yûji Tajiri	....	still photographer
Koichi Yanagisawa	....	assistant camera

Other crew
Rosemary Dean	....	co-subtitler
Bill Yokoyama	....	firearms

Production Companies

• Kokuei Company
• Shintoho Company

Distributors

• Palm Pictures (2007) (USA) (DVD)
• Palm Pictures (2007) (USA) (theatrical) (subtitled)
• Shintoho Film Distribution Committee (2004) (Japan) (theatrical)
• UPLINK Company (2006) (Japan) (DVD)

Other Companies

• Argo Pictures  publicity
• Media Space  international sales

Also Known As:

Hanai Sachiko no karei na shôgai (Japan) (longer version)
The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai (International: English title)

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Singapore:R21 | Germany:18

Filming Locations:

Tokyo, Japan

Company:

Kokuei Company

How can a movie with such a wild plot description be this dang boring?

It would be quite easy to make this movie sound fun: a call girl gets shot in the forehead by a North Korean spy, but survives. The bullet that is embedded in her brain makes her long for knowledge, as well as sex. Unbeknownst to her, she walks away from the shooting with the cloned finger of George W. Bush in her purse, a key which can unlock the power to use nuclear armaments. Just call it a romp, and at least a few people will show up to the theater. I'm not sure how many did go to see this four year old film when it opened in New York this past April, but I sincerely hope not many. It sounds like a light and playful pinku flick, but it has art-house pretensions and is really just incredibly boring. Many pinku films in the past have been successful in their artistic aspirations, but this film's aspirations just make the time that elapses between the sex scenes excruciating. And then the sex scenes aren't even good! I've seen some pretty outrageous stuff in dirty Japanese movies. I've never seen this country produce something with sex this dull. The Spice Channel is more imaginative. The only worthwhile thing in this movie is the body of the lead actress, Emi Kuroda. Otherwise, this is pure torture.