Nôkô furin: torareta onna

Interesting, rather than being particularly involving, this strange little tale involves a couple of relationships ending and others beginning. A young girl on the eve of marriage gets cold feet and seduces a local restaurateur some ten years or so her senior. Lots of good exterior location shooting and it is certainly not Tokyo, looks far too suburban. Lots of vigorous if rather squalid sex scenes, the sequence where the older guy 'services' his estranged wife to the sound of the squeaking bed is particularly difficult. There is rather a lot of simulated oral sex considering the films brief running time but again nothing particularly erotic. It is bobbing up for air during one of these sessions that gives the film it's English title when the young girl describes the taste of men. Thought I'd just share that with you.

There was an excellent article on Oprah.com on women and porn. "... the fact is, millions of women use and enjoy 'explicit sexual imagery.'" Japanese Pinku films are soft-core porn. They have a wide range of what is shown, and this film would be considered to be at the low end of the scale on the porn aspect.

That is not to say that it is not an enjoyable film. It is amazing how much porn they fit in in 64 minutes and still managed to tell a good story. It's the kind of porn that I would imagine would be attractive to women who might not otherwise look at porn. According to the article above that is a decreasing number as 56% of Hustler's on-line sales are to women.

Shoko (Konatsu) is having doubts about getting married and decides to do some exploration with Kudo the chef (Hitoshi Ishikawa). She dumps her fiancé (Takuya Fukushima), the chef dumps her, her fiancé ends up with her best friend (Minami Aiyama). the chef uses his wife (Yumika Hayashi) like a piece of meat, she won't quit the chef, and, then family secrets are revealed.

Not a lot of depth, but a view of six lives in modern Japan.