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Amongst horror fans Toshiharu Ikeda is probably better known for his Argento-inspired masterpiece Evil Dead Trap, but before delving into the horror genre Ikeda was making pink films for Nikkatsu's Roman Porno line with Sex Hunter being the most stylish, breathtaking, and gloriously brutal of the bunch.

Sex Hunter opens with an exquisitely photographed performance of Swan Lake featuring Miki as the prima ballerina. After the recital she receives numerous bouquets, one of which is from Akiko, a renowned ballerina who runs an exclusive ballet school. On her way home after the show Miki is approached by Akiko who invites her to join her academy. Miki agrees and is brought to the isolated location at once to begin her training.

Once there Miki quickly discovers there is more to this school than meets the eye as she is thrown headfirst into a deviant cocktail of rape, incest, group sex, sadomasochism, and Coca Cola enemas.

Miki's transformation from shy, virginal ballerina to ravenous uber-slut is represented brilliantly as the film swiftly transitions from scenes of Miki gracefully practicing her ballet routines to being bound and suspended from the ceiling expelling Coke from her asshole as her SM trainer leeringly looks on.

As with most pink films, the theme of liberation via domination is the central focus here. Once Miki has become a masochistic f@ck-machine she discovers her estranged (and now crippled) boyfriend is being kept on the school grounds by his incestuous sister - who, incidentally, happens to be Akiko - and attempts to escape with him which ends in some aggressive wheelchair-sex / near-death fall that earns Miki a severe beating/rape combination courtesy of Akiko and her sadistic assistant.

In a magnificently lit, rain-drenched scene, the films conclusion shows Miki transcending Akiko's heights of perversion and taking her sexual liberation to the limit as she indulges in a depraved ménage à trois with her crippled & bleeding boyfriend and her SM mentor.

Like Evil Dead Trap, Ikeda's film once again brings to mind Argento's Suspiria with its corrupt girls school plot and often dizzying camera-work but the similarities end there. In total, a gleefully sadistic piece of art that deserves more attention.

Just watched another Japan film that's full of wild and strange sex which is typical for the Nikkatsu film collection as I for one have always had a thing for Asian women and watching these films is always a pleasure! This film "Sex Hunter 1980" involves a young lady named Miki who is a young and talented ballet dancer who all of a sudden is taken into a very private run dance academy run by a mystery woman. And oddly enough the education is to rekindle romance and love making only soon to discover this learning class is of horrible things and even downright torture that includes violent sexual acts. Again another game of fun and sex and Jap porn that's worth a watch.

After a performance of Swan Lake, prima ballerina Miki (Yukari Taguchi) is approached by Akiko (Erina Miyai)—sister of Miki's missing boyfriend Genichiro—who proposes that the talented dancer become part of her exclusive ballet school. Hoping that she might learn something of Genichiro's whereabouts, Miki agrees to go to the school, but once there discovers that she has been tricked by Akiko, whose incestuous love for her brother has turned her into an insanely jealous bitch who will do anything to win her sibling's affections. With the help of her sadistic male assistant, Akiko intends to turn virginal Miki into a sex-mad slut, hoping that when Genichiro (who, it transpires, has been living at the school ever since a terrible car crash left him in a wheelchair) sees what a whore she has become, he will reject her and fall straight into his sister's loving arms instead.

If you were simultaneously shocked and titillated by the deviant goings on in critically-acclaimed, big-budget ballet horror/thriller Black Swan, then your tights will be blown right off by what occurs in Sex Hunter: the gorgeous girls in this thoroughly twisted Japanese Pinku indulge in acts so filthy that you would be hard pushed to get Kunis and Portman to perform them even in your deepest, darkest and most perverted of private fantasies.

Directed by Toshiharu Ikeda of Evil Dead Trap fame, Sex Hunter takes the typical Roman Porno themes of sex, misogyny, and S&M and pushes them to the absolute limits, with only the occasional spot of optical fogging seemingly preventing the film from entering hardcore territory. Jaw-dropping scene follows jaw-dropping scene as the film explores all manner of depravity, with perhaps the film's most licentious moment being when Akiko's S&M assistant gets busy with the fizzy by administering an enema to Miko using the world's most popular carbonated soft drink instead of water (anyone for a Coca-Culo?). Having filled her to the brim with the sugary beverage, he proceeds to shake her up until the drink erupts in a fountain of sickly sweetness (marketing bods may be interested to note that the company's familiar logo is clearly visible as several of the uniquely shaped bottles are jammed into Miki's butt—now that's what I call product placement!).

"Sex Hunter" is a gorgeously photographed adaptation of manga.A Ballerina diva runs a dance school from a secluded castle hideaway.One day she brings in a young lovely ballerina upstart to show her the ropes.And that is what she gets - tons of sexual abuse,bondage and rope discipline."Sex Hunter" is a marvelous piece of steamy Japanese ero guro erotica.The cinematography is stylish,the acting is remarkable and the catalogue of sexual debauchery on display includes forced lesbianism,rape and golden showers.Toshiharu Ikeda is very much a genre filmmaker–first working for Nikkatsu in the 1970's as an assistant to his mentor Konuma and then later on his own.He directed a few pinku films such as "Blue Lagoon" and then the fourth in the "Angel Guts" series before later shifting to films with more a gore and horror bent with his most famous shocker "Evil Dead Trap",which is considered one of the keystones of gory Japanese horror.