Plot by AsianFilmReviews: "Shizuko Tooyama is a beautiful professional dancer with a successful marriage and a seemingly perfect life. What she does not know is her husband, Takayoshi, owes the yakuza a large sum of money. The yakuza threaten to turn over a videotape with Takayoshi engaging in illegal activities with them to his boss. The only way that Takayoshi can pay the yakuza off is by selling his wife to them for use as a sex slave. Shizuko is then kidnapped, ritually gang-raped and subjected to countless types of sexual torture. Her abuse is primarily for the enjoyment of the head boss of that yakuza family. It was his attraction to Shizuko that prompted his underlings to arrange her purchase. "
Remake of a classic from 1974, this Pinku, directed by Takashi ishii ("Evil Dead Trap" writer, director of some of the "Angel Guts" pinku series and of the petrifying "Freeze me"), is visually splendid and has very good production values, contrary to a lot of "modern" erotic movies. The erotic tension is put aside unfortunately and the director obviously concentrate all of hs effort on the stylish achievement of creating beautiful "frames" of S&M sex. The iconic nature of these images is mesmerizing but distract the audience from the plot and the emotional involvement of the viewers. After her first abduction and submission to sexual fantasies, we find ourselves longing for something more and it doesn't happens. The desperate attempts to save her seems doomed from the beginning and we guess very soon that her salvation lies in her acceptance of her fate/own fantasies. Unfortunately, this is way too classic to be interesting to a pinku "aficionado". Despite that, one cannot put aside the real lavish S&M imagery and the quality of Ishii's direction.
Many have noted the connections between this movie and "Eyes Wide Shut"...I won't comment further as they are clearly not the same kind of movie, but it's clearly the Japanese movie that goes all the way in the exploration of erotic fantasy where E.W.S staid only at the surface. Question of culture, I guess.
At the end of the day, the fetishist aspect of S&M is clearly depicted as beautiful and arty. And it is. But too much of the eroticism is missing, for this movie to be completely successful.
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