{"id":10627,"date":"2015-02-12T00:02:01","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T05:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=10627"},"modified":"2015-02-12T00:02:01","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T05:02:01","slug":"dvd-office-love-behind-closed-doors-ofisu-rabu-mahiru-no-kinryoku-1985","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=10627","title":{"rendered":"DVD: Office Love: Behind Closed Doors \/ Ofisu rabu: Mahiru no kinry\u00f4ku (1985)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"OfficeLoveBehindClosedDoors\"<\/a>Film<\/strong>: Good<\/p>\n

Transfer<\/strong>: \u00a0Very Good<\/p>\n

Extras<\/strong>: Standard<\/p>\n

Label:\u00a0<\/strong>Impulse Pictures \/ Synapse Films<\/a><\/p>\n

Region:<\/strong>\u00a01 (NTSC)<\/p>\n

Released:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0June 3, 2014<\/p>\n

Genre:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Japanese Pink \/ Adult<\/p>\n

Synopsis:<\/strong>\u00a0A single mother juggles corporate and call girl demands, but things get jiggly when an old flame re-enters her life!<\/p>\n

Special Features:<\/strong>\u00a0 4-page colour booklet with liner notes by Jasper Sharp \/ Theatrical Trailer.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In this rare feature-length production, Nikkatsu’s\u00a0Office Love: Behind Closed Doors<\/b>\u00a0is also a drama with Roman Porno interludes and indulgences, and with the exception of one especially brutal assault between an engaged couple (Kusami Junpei and Jogenji Kurumi), most of what unfurls is an erotic drama (dubbed \u201ceroduction\u201d) concerning a personal assistant whose state of longing is accentuated when an ex-lover and the father of her child returns to the corporation, upsetting an affair with two upper executives and a junior assistant with a heart of gold.<\/p>\n

Yasuro (Yasuaki) Uegaki\u2019s film espouses real drama, but it\u2019s only marginally successful, which is extremely odd given the extra running time and deliberate focus on drama should\u2019ve enabled the director and writer Toshimichi Saeki to deepen the film\u2019s characters. The lack of detail may stem from a number of possibilities \u2013 Uegaki\u2019s preference on long takes rather than extensive dialogue exchanges, an already undercooked script, rushed production, or a sudden switch to a feature-length eroduction \u2013 but even with fairly wan scenes and the barest of character outlines, this isn\u2019t a standard Roman Porno.<\/p>\n

Reiko (Akasaka Rei from\u00a0High School Teacher: Maturing<\/b>) is a single mother juggling work, affairs, emotional turmoil, and parenting, and it\u2019s her choice to engage in affairs rather than be blackmailed or dragged into the office washroom for a quickie (as occurs in office-set smutfests such as\u00a0Horny Working Girl: From 5 to 9<\/a><\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0I Love It from Behind!<\/a><\/b>). Her interest in a junior assistant feels genuine, and in what could\u2019ve been directed as a humiliating experience, the epic threesome that closes the film offers neither victors or vanquished \u2013 just Reiko feeling satisfied, and both her ex-lover and the assistant riding a train home in a vague stillness, leaving the film\u2019s conclusion utterly blank. (The only assumption one can make is that by fulfilling her own needs and those of the two men, her rejection is an act of defiance against the expectations of her suitors, although she has no job to return to as the end credits roll.)<\/p>\n

How she manages to balance active day \/night lives with no babysitter for her seven year old is never addressed, but why should it be? This isn\u2019t high drama, but Uegaki depicted a similar mix of restrained emotions for characters and somewhat docu-drama styled sex scenes in his prior film,\u00a0Female Teacher: In Front of the Students<\/a><\/b>\u00a0(1982).<\/p>\n

There\u2019s barely any music in the film (the few cues by Masahiro Kawasaki are dramatic rather than tracked bonking cues), and the boffing scenes range from perfunctory to epic, of which the latter variety often consist of just a few long takes. (A few jump cuts suggest material was lopped off to tighten scenes, and remove blatant views of pickles and beaver which the fogging and digital blocking couldn\u2019t fully obfuscate.)<\/p>\n

None of the scenes offer any meaningful drama, but the film\u2019s unusual tone suggests a director with a desire to transcend the banalities of the Roman Porno formula, but lacking decent material to elevate the final product.<\/p>\n

Impulse Pictures\u2019 DVD features an okay transfer \u2013 compression is a bit more evident here than in prior, shorter releases \u2013 and although Kazuumi Sugimoto\u2019s compositions are nice, virtually every zoom maneuver is clumsy, presuming the camera operator may have been saddled with one lousy lens, or was drunk. (There\u2019s also an apparent gaffe that occurs when one of Reiko\u2019s suitors gets up: instead of vanishing off-screen, the actor is visible in the frame, waiting for the camera to tracking further back.)<\/p>\n

Jasper Sharp\u2019s lengthy liner notes provide a good overview of the eroduction sub-genre within the Roman Porno realm, and Uegaki\u2019s career as a former assistant director (Sex Hunter: Wet Target<\/a><\/b>) who eventually made his own films during the waning years of Nikkatsu\u2019s production output.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 2015 Mark R. Hasan<\/p>\n

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