Rezubian reipu: Amai mitsujû

A pair of sexual maniacs are using experimental new drugs to rape,torture and kill the innocent girls that arouse them.Will a woman on the inside of the pharmaceutical company making them take them down or join in their debauchery?"Lesbian Rape:Sweet Honey Juice" is no different than the other fetishistic and dark pinku eigas made by Hisayasu Sato.There is plenty of rape and sexual abuse in this one as well as some nasty use of test tube and a liquid gun.Though Satō's style seems to have softened somewhat as the 1990s progressed he was still capable of producing such works as "Naked Blood" (1996) which contains infamous scene of the woman mutilating and eating her breast and vagina lips.

This is one of my least favorite Sato films-- it's actually more linear and coherent than his other early 90s films, but that makes the content more boring. Also, the casting is all off; Sato is usually wonderful at casting his films, but here everyone felt wrong for the part.

Sato is still able to give us a few great compositions, with the use of mentioned glass silencer and lizards in another user review, but there are too few. None of the sex is particularly interesting, not erotic nor morbidly fascinating. As I write about this film more, I realize I'm not even sure why I gave it 3 stars. Perhaps there are themes I liked in the film, such as our lesbian antagonist and effeminate rapist wanting to explore queer issues at the films core, but they aren't handled in any sort of hard panache Sato usually brings to the table. In fact, the film ends up seeming like a Sato imitation.

A sort of broken love triangle. Man in love with a woman who is a lesbian who is in love with another woman who doesn't love anyone. The man has a gun with a glass silencer and uses it to rape women.

It is a very weak story. Very weak characters. Neither the script nor Director Hisayasu Satõ seemed to put much thought into this film. This movie also has a kind of melancholy mood to it. Not a hint of excitement or anything upbeat.

It is a Pink Eiga film. Several sex scenes or nudity. Nothing even remotely explicit. Most are far from erotic and not all were rapes scenes.

I really would not recommend this movie to anyone. Not even to fans of Hisayasu Satõ.

Been in a real funk lately, so I dived headfirst into Hisayasu Sato's filmography. It started as a thing for his birthday, then just kinda... became my ritual for the past week. It got me back to Rezubian Reipu: Amai Mitsujû (Silencer Made of Glass), a flick that, for all its edginess, just feels kinda... bland. It's got that signature neon-soaked gloom, but here it just feels like a backdrop for a story where every single attempt at human connection goes belly up. No big deal, just another day in Sato's dreary world.

The main gimmick here is a homemade gun with a glass silencer used to fire semen. This bizarre and totally detached form of violation is supposed to be the film's big moment, but it lands with all the impact of a pillow hitting a wall.

The plot follows a lab researcher obsessed with lizards and test tubes. This obsession, naturally, morphs into a creepy fixation on her assistant, leading her to team up with a guy to carry out this ridiculous assault. The whole thing feels like a lazy checklist of Satô's usual tricks-misplaced intentions, voyeurism, and by-the-numbers sadism that gets old fast. Despite having familiar faces like Rei Takagi and Emi Sugimoto, their performances are pretty much reduced to one-note roles. And Koichi Imaizumi just doing his typical weirdo schtick, which feels less like a performance and more like a repeat of every other oddball part he's played.

Honestly, the movie feels less like an artistic statement and more like an obligation. It's too short to be a real endurance test, but too repetitive and pointless to justify the time you spend watching it. The constant, claustrophobic scenes of assault-both real and imagined-are unsettling at first, but that discomfort quickly gives way to pure boredom. The film tries to throw in some deeper themes-cross-dressing, menstruation, and those ever-present lizards-but it all feels like a desperate attempt to make a pointless movie seem meaningful. What begins as a layered look at lust and fear just becomes a muddled mess that leaves you completely cold. It's a pretty mediocre entry in Sato's filmography, and frankly, it's only worth a watch if you're a die-hard fan trying to see everything he's ever made. Even the ridiculous ending, where a "real gun" shows up, is too abrupt and silly to save this dull, forgettable slice of cinematic misery.