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Beautiful, Sophisticated, Existential Japanese Porn
<<corrections made>> If David Lynch made a hard-core porn film, I'm fairly sure it would resemble this Japanese oddity. The film has that early seventies, soft-focus look reminiscent of the early films of Alex de Renzy, or Joe D'Amato, but this film was released in 1994. The opening scene is an aerial view of a bare-assed salary man on top of a geisha, (engaged in coitus) in slow zoom for an uncomfortable length of time. The film then jump cuts back and forth between medical dentistry footage and the aforementioned couple as they explore the ministry position for all it's worth. This is obviously a nod to Nicolas Roeg's BAD TIMING, which inter-cuts a sex scene with a tracheotomy, but unlike Roeg's film, this dives headlong into hardcore sex (of the XXX variety). The version I saw was from a French Secam tape, with Japanese language and French subtitles, but the dialogue is sparse, so speaking Japanese or reading French isn't truly necessary to watch (or enjoy) the film. The benefit of a French release meant that none of the sex was fogged or digitally altered, so nothing was left to the imagination. The atmosphere is hallucinatory, and the plot existential to say the least, but it is hypnotic in its ability to captivate. The transition from sensual to repulsive is balanced nicely, but doesn't mask the director's obvious manipulation of the audience. As the running time advances the weirdness accelerates and climbs at an exponential rate. Definitely not for most, but if you're a fan of Euro-erotica, Japanese pink films, or specifically entertained by films like SINGAPORE SLING or THE IMAGE, then this is right up your alley. Beautiful, sophisticated, existential Japanese porn.
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- flickhead
- Jul 29, 2003
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