{"id":6870,"date":"2013-07-27T19:48:33","date_gmt":"2013-07-27T23:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/?p=4166"},"modified":"2013-07-27T19:48:33","modified_gmt":"2013-07-27T23:48:33","slug":"nikkatsu-naughties-part-5-teachers-under-extreme-duress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=6870","title":{"rendered":"Nikkatsu Naughties, Part 5: Teachers Under Extreme Duress"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Instructors new and old get little respect in Nikkatsu\u2019s latest pair of pedagogical sermons on ill behaviour and \u2018self-cleansing,\u2019 and the level of wrongness is much higher here than in previous installments.<\/p>\n

Well, maybe it\u2019s all the same, since there\u2019s a revolving series of basic story elements which the Roman Porno writers re-purposed far too many times to count. Perhaps that\u2019s why it\u2019s tough to recall the full scope of any specific entry – only moments of wrongness stand out, if not sequences, or unique actors among the 10+ films.<\/p>\n

Impulse Pictures \/ Synapse Films\u2019 latest sadistic duo is\u00a0Female Teacher: Hunting \/ Female Teacher 11 \/ Onna ky\u00f4shi-gari<\/a> <\/strong>[M<\/a>], and Female Teacher: In Front of the Students \/ Onna ky\u00f4shi: Seito no me no maede<\/a><\/strong> [M<\/a>].<\/p>\n

Both hail from 1982, and perhaps as the studio\u2019s output delved into more extreme material, this might be a good time to add a contextual review of Nikkatsu\u2019s most prolific filmmakers, Masaru Konuma. 47 movies in 18 years, and up to anno 2000, he was still making smut. Konuma\u2019s biggest international hit is probably Wife to be Sacrificed<\/strong> (1974), which KimStim reissued with a doc on the director back in 2007.<\/p>\n

Titled Sadistic and Masochistic<\/a><\/strong> [M<\/a>] (2000), the wobbly but important film was made by Hideo Nakata (Ringu<\/strong>), who began his career as an assistant director at Nikkatsu.\u00a0Nakata\u2019s access to and friendships with former colleagues brings up lots of ridiculous anecdotes, but this isn’t the definitive documentary on Japan\u2019s Roman Porno cinema cycle. That may belong to Yves Montmayeur’s Pinku Eiga: Inside the Please Dome of Japanese Erotic Cinema<\/strong>,<\/strong> <\/strong>which has yet to receive a home video release (at least in North America).<\/p>\n

The Roman Porno could be seen as a variant of western porn\u2019s \u2018golden age\u2019 during the seventies, but I think that\u2019s too much of a simplification, because as long as Nikkatsu’s filmmakers adhered to a handful of strict studio guidelines, they could use the sets, props, and behind-the-camera talent pool (editors, costume designers, set decorators, cinematographers, composers) \u00a0who used to make straight films.<\/p>\n

Nikkatsu was a major studio, and with leeway given to obedient directors and writers, they could craft (somewhat) intelligible dramas while paying due to the studio\u2019s specific demands. That yielded a much broader and richer scope of sexploitation films, which makes the Roman Porno series perhaps more transgressive; just as Roger Corman\u2019s pioneering work (and those of his contemporaries) have been feted by indie DVD labels, there\u2019s much in common between the American drive-in fodder designed to titillate, excite, and sate jaded, fickle audiences, and Japan’s pink cinema of the seventies and early eighties.<\/p>\n

The chief differences, however, involve mandatory sex scenes, and bizarre concepts neither Hollywood’s most extreme filmmakers of the era, nor its porn makers, would’ve attempted.<\/p>\n

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Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor
\nKQEK.com <\/strong>( Main Site<\/a> \/ Mobile Site<\/a> )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reviewed are Impulse Pictures \/ Synapse Films’ latest crop of Nikkatsu Roman Porno entries – Female Teacher: Hunting \/ Onna ky\u00f4shi-gari + Female Teacher: In Front of the Students \/ Onna ky\u00f4shi: Seito no me no maede (both from 1982) – and for some contextual reference for all this period smut, I’ve added a review of Sadistic and Masochistic (2000), Hideo Nakata’s 2000 documentary on Nikkatsu’s prolific house director Masaru Konuma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[2148,2149,2141,167,1506,2150],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-1MO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}