Inflatable Sex Doll of the Wastelands (1967)
(Dutch Wife in the Desert/Kôya no Dacchi waifu)
Country: JAP
Technical: bw/2.35:1 85m
Director: Atsushi Yamatoya
Cast: Yûichi Minato, Shôhei Yamamoto, Miki Watari, Noriko Tatsumi
Synopsis:
A hitman is hired by a businessman to find his kidnapped girlfriend, who may have been murdered in a snuff film. Investigations lead him to a clingy hooker and a former associate who also lost his girl, for which the hitman feels responsible.
Review:
This Japanese 'pink movie' classic is like a cross between Monte Hellman and Russ Meyer, to pick two near-contemporaries. The erotic content is exclusively breast focused, and shot with the same febrile grasp of camera technique as the rest of the movie has on narrative coherence. The old chestnut that the hero's grip on reality is coming decidedly unstuck justifies no end of unexplained characters and imperviousness to bullets, and the direction, framing and editing are amateurish in the extreme.
(Dutch Wife in the Desert/Kôya no Dacchi waifu)
Country: JAP
Technical: bw/2.35:1 85m
Director: Atsushi Yamatoya
Cast: Yûichi Minato, Shôhei Yamamoto, Miki Watari, Noriko Tatsumi
Synopsis:
A hitman is hired by a businessman to find his kidnapped girlfriend, who may have been murdered in a snuff film. Investigations lead him to a clingy hooker and a former associate who also lost his girl, for which the hitman feels responsible.
Review:
This Japanese 'pink movie' classic is like a cross between Monte Hellman and Russ Meyer, to pick two near-contemporaries. The erotic content is exclusively breast focused, and shot with the same febrile grasp of camera technique as the rest of the movie has on narrative coherence. The old chestnut that the hero's grip on reality is coming decidedly unstuck justifies no end of unexplained characters and imperviousness to bullets, and the direction, framing and editing are amateurish in the extreme.
(Dutch Wife in the Desert/Kôya no Dacchi waifu)
Country: JAP
Technical: bw/2.35:1 85m
Director: Atsushi Yamatoya
Cast: Yûichi Minato, Shôhei Yamamoto, Miki Watari, Noriko Tatsumi
Synopsis:
A hitman is hired by a businessman to find his kidnapped girlfriend, who may have been murdered in a snuff film. Investigations lead him to a clingy hooker and a former associate who also lost his girl, for which the hitman feels responsible.
Review:
This Japanese 'pink movie' classic is like a cross between Monte Hellman and Russ Meyer, to pick two near-contemporaries. The erotic content is exclusively breast focused, and shot with the same febrile grasp of camera technique as the rest of the movie has on narrative coherence. The old chestnut that the hero's grip on reality is coming decidedly unstuck justifies no end of unexplained characters and imperviousness to bullets, and the direction, framing and editing are amateurish in the extreme.