Plot by Imdb: "Christina, on arriving in Japan, acquaints a Japanese man at the airport who looks like a sap. He takes her to his apartment where he brutally rapes her and keeps her hostage and bound in chains. Christina's alluring beauty eventually enchants the rapist and he is soon consulting his 'How to Stimulate a Woman' sex book in an effort to please her... Of course, our girl exploits this weakness and manages to escape. She then finds her way to a nightclub and to cut a long story short is ganged-banged by some odd-looking characters. Christina is not having a lot of luck is she, poor girl! The Japanese man (who seems to have fallen in love with her), finds her walking the streets barefooted and in a terrible state. So he takes her back to his place and tries his best to bring her out of her depressive state of mind but with no avail. He eventually orders her to go but it seems Christina has developed a 'Stockholm Syndrome' and refuses to leave. They then live together quite happily until some gangsters arrive to shatter their domestic bliss..."
Sadao Nakajima, a pure product of the Toei studio, had a difficult task: make some kind of Pinku movie with a storyline as thin as his budget. Despite the presence of Christina Lindberg, this "Pink" is slow and far from interesting. The pink scenes are dull, and glued in a bizarre mix of sexual violence (the average bondage/rape required for a Pinku) and slimy romanticism. Also bizarre, is the main character, that looks and acts like a rebel student,constructing homemade bombs and apparently plotting some kind of terrorist attack on the Tokyo airport at the beginning. This interesting political character, typical from the 60's in Japan where the socialist and revolutionary movements were particularly active, is sidetracked from the beginning by the intrusion of this foreign girl and then seems to forgot entirely his misery or political mission. Is it a way for the script writer and director to tell us that all he needed was love ? That his extreme activism was just the way of an empty soul, looking for a meaning in his life ? This is unclear, even if the ending let us suppose so.
Another interesting aspect of the movie resides in the fact that both main characters are speaking their own native language (Japanese and Swedish), and, therefore, are unable to understand each others. Once again, this kind of naive romanticism seems out of its place in a Pinku, where most of the sex is violently forced upon the female characters. I don't specially buy the "Stockohlm Syndrome" explanation, I just think that Chirstina lindberg character is not from this world: a pure mythical figure of both sexual exoticism (she is supposedly a Pornstar or a high class Call Girl) and naivety (the nightclub sequence when she gets raped, after acting like a stupid teenager). So naively, she goes back to the man that fell in love with her, even if he was her first assailant...
Mmmm, maybe I shouldn't try to figure out exploitation movie plots....There are no satisfactory explanation.
Anyway, as symbolic as it can be, the all movie lacks rhythm and our interest dims after a while. Not a great Pinku movie but still some interesting elements for the ones that have a solid historical and sociological knowledge about Japan in the 60's / 70's. Or for the Christina Lindberg's fans out there.
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