Erotica

Director: Shuji Kataoka
Cast: Shiro Shimomoto, Hiromi Saotome, Ayu Kiyokawa, Yutaka Ikejima, Yoshie Mogami, Otaku Sarashina, Haomi Sugishita, Bunmei Tobayama, Akira Fukoda
Pink Eiga / Not Rated / NTSC Region 1 / Widescreen / Surround 2.0 / Color / 61 Minutes.

I was never one for bondage and suspension pleasure nor have I ever implemented those types of "fun" into my arsenal of sexual encounters. I like to think I can please a woman without having to cause her rope burn around her tits and taco. But, seriously, what is the fascination with masochistic bondage? The closest I've ever experienced with it is when I brought in handcuffs into the bedroom and though the feeling of helplessness was blissful torture, bondage isn't something I'd prefer over something else more gratifying and playful like role playing or even a good hard spanking. So, when Pink Eiga decided to throw my way a film called S&M Hunter that dealt with a superhero type protagonist who ties up women with ropes that can leave them brainwashed with endless pleasure, I had to jump at the chance to see what all the hype was about!

Director: Mototsugu Watanabe
Cast: Kyoko Hashimoto, Ayumi Taguchi, Ayu Kiyokawa, Yukijiro Hotaru, Jimmy Tsuchida, Masaki Watanabe, Reika Kazami, Saeko Fuji, Yutaka Ikejima
Pink Eiga / Not Rated / NTSC Region 1 / 16X9 Widescreen (4:3 Full screen???) / Stereo 2.0 / 60 Minutes

I remember back when I was a wee lad sneaking into my parents' bedroom, tiptoeing to the very old oak chest, shifting through a couple of dozen balled up socks and coming up with what are now ancient video cassette tapes. What lies on those films of tape you may ask? I'll tell you. As I let the VHS player grab the tape and pull it in, hairy bush crotches and sleazy jam music made up the first porno experience of my life. I will admit that I never knew porn existed pre-1990. When you're that young, you don't know such things and those who are responsible for you, (i.e. parents) fear telling you the facts of birds and bees because of their own inexplicable self consciousness. Here I am now many years later with a sleazy stash of my own and I still have this amazement with retro porn even if some of it is only from the recent 80s. Sexy Battle Girls, though not porn per say, branches out into 80's Manga erotica in a decade of which Ron Jeremy and Ginger Lynn made so infamous.

Director: Derek Ford
Cast: Dennis Waterman, Victor Spinetti, John Bird, Vanda Hudson
Odeon Entertainment / Certificate 15 / PAL Region 2 / Full Screen / Mono 2.0 / 78 Minutes

When you think of the idea of trilogies, you think of three individual films that complete a continuous story or, perhaps, a trilogy of stand-a-lone films but are not in any way, shape or form following a continuity. On the rare occasion, you may stumble across a trilogy of stories - all of which are shown in one sitting and do not attempt to be a part of a one story. If you need a recent example, think back to the good old horror days with Creepshow - a handful of spooky and gruesome tales that chilled the backbone stiff. Horror wasn't the only genre to play this game nor will it be the last. This, That & The Other brought the comedy and erotica element into the trifecta of single story sittings while keeping those stories tightly packed in to one less than 80 minute film.

Director: Yojiro Takita
Cast: Yukuiro Hotaru, Yuka Takemura, Yutaka Ikejima, Rei Matsubara, Yoshimi Kai, Tatsuya Nagatomo, Shinji Kubo
Pink Eiga / Not Rated / NTSC Region 1 / Widescreen / Japanese language with English subtitles / 67 Minutes

Director: Daisuke Goto
Cast: Horyu Nakamura, Ryoko Asagi, Yumeka sasaki, Seiji Nakamitsu, Haruki Jo, Sakura Mizuki, Toshimasa Niiro, Hidehisa Ebata
Pink Eiga / NTSC Region 1/ Not Rated / Widescreen (Anamorphic) / Japanese with English subtitles / 61 Minutes

Senility is associated with elder age and usually consists of the loss of memory recollection and it impairs the current state of the current memory. The symptoms are different with each person, of course. Each person also copes with it differently, but those who can effectively cope manage a long life of happiness....most of the time. Sometimes they are stuck in an inescapable cycle that becomes their cage from the rest of the world. With their mental impairment, they tend to drive their family and friends away, leaving them to their solitude so they can slowly whither away. Director Daisuke Goto's A Lonely Cow Weeps at Dawn considers the opposite in which the hardworking elder, even with his unusual case of senility, manages to capture the heart of a young and beautiful woman.

Director: Yojiro Takita
Cast: Yukuiro Hotaru, Yuka Takemura, Kaoru Kaze, Serina Miyabi, Naoto Takenaka, Shuji Kataoka
Pink Eiga / Not Rated / NTSC Region 1 / Widescreen / Mono Stereo 2.0 / Japanese Language with English subtitles / 64 Minutes

Detective mysteries sizzle with anticipation and excitement due to their suspenseful nature. You hardly see any other genre elements present than those I've just described. Granted, there are shows like Monk and Psyche that have comical qualities about them yet they still pertain a darker and more serious side to them with a wholehearted message. What if we take out that message, over load it with Benny Hill style humor and made the entire film a sexual experience? You would have stumbled upon a delightful raunchy erotic comedy by a 2008 Academy Award Winning director Yojiro Takita! Well, a Japanese Academy Award which is still very prestigious even for a director who started off at the helm of a series of Japanese Pink films like Molester Train, also called Groper Train.

Director: Yutaka Ikejima
Cast: Reiko Yamaguchi, Akane Yazaki, Kaoru Akitsu, Naohiro Hirakawa, Kikujiro Honda, Koji Makimura
Pink Eiga / Not Rated / NTSC Region 1 / Widescreen / Japanese Language with English subtitles / 61 Minutes.

I would consider myself a nymphomaniac. I love sex, who in their right mind doesn't? So, when I heard of a movie called The Japanese Wife Next Door and the lead female character is a sex-crazed nymphomaniac who seduces her husband's entire family, I couldn't resist not checking it out! There were some expectations that I was expecting beyond the buckoos of sex I was about to visually endure; being a movie buff, I need a good plot, whether it is porn or an underground indie project. Porn enthusiasts will probably shoot back and say, "why do you need a plot in porn? you're a sick fuck!" Indeed, I am a sick fuck - I can't sit around for 3 hours watching other people...well...fuck. While The Japanese Wife Next Door did produce an "erectifying" result, there was just a sense of childlike objectivity and personality that made this raunchy comedy more creepy than it did sensually funny.

aka Hanna D. - La ragazza del Vondel Park
aka À seize ans dans l'enfer d'Amsterdam
Director: Rino Di Silvestro
Cast: Ann-Gisel Glass, Sebastiano Somma, Antonio Serrano, Donatella Damiani, Karin Schubert
Severin Films / Not Rated / NTSC Region 1 / 16x9 Widescreen / Mono / Color / 88 Minutes
Buy Hanna D: The Girl from Vondel Park

In your short lifetime, there bestows upon us a woman and not just any plain Jane woman, but a special kind that of lady that captures, tortures and breaks hearts as if she was chewing on those little valentine heart-shaped candies; the ones with the loving and cute messages scribbled on them. And then, there is Hanna. A prostitution sleaze of a woman that breaks all the rules and never looks back as she exploits herself and others with her body and her beauty to get what she wants - no matter the consequence.

Director: Daisuke Goto
Cast: Konatsu, Shota Kotaki, Yota Kawase
Pink Eiga / Not Rated / NTSC Region 1 / Widescreen / Japanese with English Subtites / 65 Minutes

I'm extremely thrilled. Do you wanna know why? It is because I am very proud to review the first Pink Eiga title here at SheSoCrazy and we start off with one of their more recent releases Blind Love. This erotic comedy follows Daisuke who hasn't quite mastered his profession of being a great ventriloquist. On top of that, his wife is divorcing him, making him pay for casual sex, his ventriloquist act is obsolete, he's shorter than most women and his post-marriage love life is as limp as his....dummy. Enter Hikari, an attractive young woman who is most likely Daisuke's only fan which would seem perfect for the slump that Daisuke is in except that Hikari is blind. Yoichi, Daisuke's taller apprentice, steps in, pursues Hikari and pretends to be Daisuke while Daisuke tags along to be the voice of himself as Yoichi becomes the body. Jealousy reveals it's ugly head as Yoichi, pretending to be Daisuke's body while Daisuke himself is in the room, scores with Hikari. Now their friendship hangs in the balance along with the lie that holds over the triangle of lovers.

aka Ars Amandi - L'arte di amare
aka L'art d'aimer
aka Ars amandi

Director: Walerian Borowcyzk

Cast: Marina Pierro, Massimo Girotti, Laura Betti, Milena Vukotic

Severin Entertainment / Uncut / Region 1 / 16X9 Widescreen / Mono Sound / Dubbed English / 97 Minutes

The Roman Empire was an organized yet fierce body during the age of Caesar Augustus. An unsteady cause of civil unrest, a hopeful transfer of power from the Senate to the people and the needed reformation of the Roman military powers were all being ensued at the time. The Art of Love leaves much to the imagination when confronting the issues that were just written. Severin's erotic fantasy tale can be described as an orgy of epic proportions and at the hands of Polish cult (borderline pornography) director Walerian Borowcyzk, how can the sexual nature and the intriguing aspects of one of the largest and most powerful empires go array? Well, unfortunately, it did slightly, but The Art Of Love still stands as a less than expected entertaining film.