{"id":6846,"date":"2013-07-27T14:45:23","date_gmt":"2013-07-27T18:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=6846"},"modified":"2013-07-27T14:45:24","modified_gmt":"2013-07-27T18:45:24","slug":"dvd-female-teacher-in-front-of-the-students-onna-kyoshi-seito-no-me-no-maede-1982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=6846","title":{"rendered":"DVD: Female Teacher: In Front of the Students \/ Onna ky\u00f4shi: Seito no me no maede (1982)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Label: \u00a0Impulse Pictures \/ Synapse Films\u00a0\/ Region: 1 (NTSC) \/\u00a0Released: March 12 , 2013<\/p>\n

Genre: Japanese Pink \/ Adult<\/p>\n

Synopsis: After a brutal shower assault, an uptight teacher spends an unwanted week with a vengeful student and his girlfriend in this bonkers tale of S&M, tennis, shower stalls, unorthadox investigative procedures, and blow-jobbing.<\/p>\n

Special Features: Booklet liner notes by Jasper Sharp \/ Theatrical Trailer<\/p>\n

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As Jasper Sharp writes in his informative liner notes, Nikkatsu\u2019s Female Teacher series eventually moved from the silly in-class antics of bawdy behaviour to increasingly darker material, with rape becoming the star attraction for connoisseurs wanting more than students lusting for morally tight-laced teachers.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the diversion that signaled the shift into Wrong terrain could be seen in 1977\u2019s Eros School: Feels So Good<\/a><\/strong> [M<\/a>] (1977), a raucous rape comedy where a new transfer student announces to the school he\u2019s out to get the institution\u2019s most chaste women. Here rape was treated as an \u2018amusingly\u2019 aberrant indulgence among school teens, whereas in Female Teacher: Dirty Afternoon<\/a><\/strong> [M<\/a>] (1981) a teacher\u2019s past sexual assault stirs up improper emotions; a quest to find her attacker; and a highly ridiculous finale where victim and rapist reach a kind of closure.<\/p>\n

Female Teacher: In Front of the Students <\/strong>(1982) offers up a dramatic premise \u2013 a conservative teacher attempts to seek out her rapist on her own terms after shower stall assault \u2013 but what begins as a drama suddenly shifts into the kind of absurdity inherent to standard porn. Dirty Afternoon<\/strong> has the underpinnings of a drama \u2013 there\u2019s enough of a character arc to offset the preposterous finale \u2013 but Students<\/strong> strings together ludicrous encounters to humiliate Reiko (Rushia Santo) because she\u2019s a) a sexually responsible adult; b) an authority figure; and c) an object of mature beauty in need of being torn to shreds.<\/p>\n

While there\u2019s nothing amusing in the lengthy shower assault – the sequence is elaborately filmed like a traumatic docu-drama sequence with an aftermath that evokes Psycho<\/strong> had Marian Crane survived Mother\u2019s shower attack \u2013 some scenes do contain a palpable \u2018Oh my!\u2019 sense of humour.<\/p>\n

For example, in an otherwise banal scene, Reiko has lunch with colleague & friend Akiyama (Kyoko Sagami), who tries to coax the right & proper Reiko into catching a new film that\u2019s supposed to have a \u2018great\u2019 rape scene. According to Syoko, \u2018it\u2019s what all women really want,\u2019 but Reiko still maintains her resilience, even when, quite unexpectedly, she\u2019s teased in the teacher\u2019s shower by a student professing (rather spastically) her intense love.<\/p>\n

She then lures Reiko to her boyfriend\u2019s home during a kind of reading week where parents apparently abandon their teens and leave them home alone where they can either study or kidnap teachers in peace. Shackled over the week, Reiko is assaulted by both teens in multiple rooms as revenge for a public scolding and kicking the boyfriend off the tennis team.<\/p>\n

Reiko eventually recognizes her friend Akiyama was right all along, and the once prissy teacher quickly comes to terms her traumatic experiences as part of some personal growth journey. The results: the teen\u2019s reinstated as leader of the tennis team; and being more perceptive of her students\u2019 wily ways, Reiko walks with extra confidence <\/em>when she\u2019s back in class teaching English to the same students who assaulted her.<\/p>\n

Masayasu Daikuhara\u2019s script and Yasuaki Uegaki\u2019s direction use a serious premise to launch their own satire of the Female Teacher franchise by combining excess and absurdity, and it almost works because Reiko\u2019s \u2018misadventures\u2019 stem not from seeking police aide (the rational choice) or school aide (the other rational choice) but by remaining silent and managing her own private investigation using the one clue her assailant left behind: a piece from a jigsaw puzzle<\/em>!<\/p>\n

As she repeatedly re-examines the little cardboard clue, it seems to beckon the outrageous \u2013 a call from the rapist himself; a colleague\u2019s husband getting drunk and attacking her with impunity; being abducted by sex-starved students until she cries uncle; and reaching closure when she voluntarily copulates with her rapist \u2013 and once the piece has been returned to its owner, Reiko has learned Syoko was spot-on about rape being, well, kind of therapeutic.<\/p>\n

The film\u2019s abrupt finale makes sense for a porn drama that can\u2019t congeal into anything logical, pointed, or meaningful; it\u2019s also consistent for a film made for a studio whose mandate is to out-shock the competition and its own audiences who may have become inured by less violate tales of prim pedagogues who experience violent masochistic assaults.<\/p>\n

Impulse\u2019s DVD features a clean transfer, plus a trailer and Jasper Sharp\u2019s liner notes. Running 70 mins., this is a slightly longer franchise entry, and although the cinematography doesn\u2019t transcend the material, the expansive school used by the production is strangely (and appropriately) seedy: whether or not the complex was slated for demolition, the grungy & decrepit rooms, brown sports field, and grim basement hallways evoke a cancerous decay that\u2019s slowly infecting the characters.<\/p>\n

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