Female Teacher: Dirty Afternoon, 1981 - ★★½

Female Teacher: Dirty Afternoon, 1981 - ★★½
_REVIEWED_

"Its nice I get hooked on it... Man-aholism."

Delinquent student on about sex, while on a swing 

A usually shy and removed teacher strikes up a bond with one of her wayward students, when the police call her due to the students lack of parents. Has her relationship with the young student grows, it stirs deep rooted urges making her question her own lonely lifestyle.

Female Teacher Dirty Afternoon is supposedly the 8th entry in the Nikkatsu series that ran to an amazing 11. Personally I found it dull and a little lifeless, especially when viewed alongside the studios more notorious series. Theres two mild rape scenes that were clearly thrown in purely for titillation reasons, other than those segments its a very basic erotic drama, more than exploitation fest.

[PRFR]
Not much, but I was pretty amused by the students paint thinner huffing father and the fact the funky central theme tune was English.

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Fairy in a Cage, 1977 - ★★½

Fairy in a Cage, 1977 - ★★½
REVIEWED

"Judge you're blushing like a teenage boy..."

Lieutenant Nishizaki (Hirokazu Inoue)

Historical Japanese pinku, set in a wwII military prison. Judge Murayama (Minoru Ōkōchi) along with his second in command Lieutenant Nishizaki (Hirokazu Inoue) abuse their power, and sexually torture the prisoners in their command. Only new recruit Taoka (Kazuo Satake) becomes infatuation with a woman wrongly imprisoned and decides to help her break free.

Average Nikkatsu studio guff featuring spanking, rope & candle torture even an enema and thats just the title sequence. Sadly the sedate pedestrian story offers little entertainment value to back up its mild smut. In fact the only memorable aspect is the period its set, and outside of the costumes thats barely used.

[PRFR]
The humorous inclusion of an itching potion on a pair of bound prisoners, for the simple reason they'll rub against each other.

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Horrors of Malformed Men, 1969 - ★★★★

Horrors of Malformed Men, 1969 - ★★★★
REVIEWED
Japanese exploitation legend Teruo Ishii's horror opus is basically a twisted, weirded out version of 'Island of Lost Souls'. I waited years to see this and thankfully it delivered. Comes highly recommended but only suitable to fans of bizarre cinema.

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Godspeed You! Black Emperor, 1976 - ★★★★

Godspeed You! Black Emperor, 1976 - ★★★★
REVIEWED

"I didn't quit school, I've never been to school."

A juvenile delinquent

Viewed as part of my *Beware the Docs of March Marathon 1.Legendary cult b&w documentary following the rise in rebellious youth bikers in 70's Tokyo, Japan. Its still fascinating close to 40 years later.

Not perfect (captured far too much home life and just sitting around for me), and one the cool movie hipsters have overrated (you know the types who daringly see Eraserhead and let you know about it), but 'Godspeed You! Black Emperor' aka 'Goddo supiido yuu! Burakku emparaa' still ranks as one of the most interesting film documents on a youth movement, thats ever been made. It packs enough energy and cool to fill 10 docs. Visually its extremely gritty very new wave cinema feeling, best segments are just watching the teens riding around, or being shy chatting with or about girls. My favorite segment was when one of the boys bought a new bike for the first time, a fun scene with bonkers j-music.

Theres some truly amazing b&w photography used as well, like the sight of a lone bike in-front of a lights flashing police car or the various goofy kids sporting penned on swastikas (I'm all for rebellion, so long as it washes off for my studies or office job tomorrow).

* I did make one rule with my doc theme month, not to list anything I'd seen previously, though I'd seen segments of this before (hard not to have done being a fan of the band GSYB, I was bound to be interested how they got their name). But I'd not previously seen it in its entireity, honest l; )

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