Best movie of this year hands down!

Highly Overrated But Still Good

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

You might find this movie quite offensive if you are not accustomed to Japanese "pink" cinema and their generally cavalier attitude towards rape (they have same attitude American films do towards murder--rape is often used for pure titillation, but also usually in a manner that is far too cartoonish to be taken very seriously). If you ARE accustomed to "pink" films, though you will more likely find this movie a little boring as it is pretty much just one semi-consensual sex scene after another with little plot standing in the way.This movie takes place at what appears to be a typical "pink" secondary school. There doesn't seem to be an "adult" presence to be found, but that's OK because all the "students" look to be about twenty. A new male comes to the school; the English subtitles claim he is a "juvenile delinquent" from another school, but he looks way too old, is dressed like a Japanese gardener, and for some reason has a pot-bellied pig following him everywhere. He's apparently an avowed rapist and such a virile stud that the female students are all worried that he will deflower the virginal female star of the track team and somehow hurt their chances in the big track meet. So do they report him to the school authorities? Do they get together and kick the crap out of him? Of course not--they allow him to rape each of them, one by one, in an effort to satiate his lust and wear him out. But they may only be delaying the inevitable.. . Perhaps, the most questionable scene here involves a male student, upset that the rapist has violated his true love, so he decides to take some poetic retribution--on the pig! I don't know what the SPCA would think of this scene (even if it is obviously simulated), but erotic it definitely ain't! The Japanese actresses here are very cute at least (which isn't always a given in 70's sexploitation films, believe me). The Japanese find pubic hair offensive (if very little else), so this movie, like other "pink" films, assiduously avoids any full-frontal nudity, but there's plenty of moderately sized breasts and nubile "schoolgirl" butts on display to make Asian fetishists and other perverts very happy. Just don't expect to be entertained too much.