He is also terrified of his mother, who runs a porno shop and shoots 8mm bondage loops in the basement.

Makato (Masahiko Ishizu, whose brief career went nowhere in the seventies) is the very model of the brow-beaten salaryman, always late for work and terrified of his bosses. It is a comedy, one might even say a romantic comedy - crude, vulgar, scatological, demeaning, as “politically incorrect” as anything might be imagined from this distance, yet still able to produce a laugh here and there and provide a happy if twisted romantic ending for a hapless and likable hero. Imagine my surprise to discover that the original was nothing like the various later revivals. I had seen two of the 2004 series with the ravishing Aya Sugimoto and one of the eighties series but had never traced them back to the beginning in 1974. If we were to try to pinpoint the beginning of that image, it probably would be 1974’s Flower and Snake, in which a rich man’s wife who has refused to sleep with him is abducted and through various bondage routines trained to be a “good” wife.īased on a work by the famous erotic novelist Oniroku Dan, it inspired a whole new genre of roman porno for Nikkatsu and was remade (or at least had its title re-used) numerous times in the eighties and in the early 21 st century. If we can say there are national signatures in porn, either soft or hard-core, then the international signature for Japan is surely bondage, women tied in increasingly imaginative and implausible ways while being tortured or sexually assaulted.

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