#1 14-04-11 07:42:53

bagworm

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Registered: 31-07-10

Posts: 22

Japanese erotic movies

There are 2 erotic (or maybe I could just say sexual) Japanese movies I really loved recently on Netflix.  I wonder if anyone has seen these, and might recommend others. 

When I think of serious erotica, like with good actors or a good story, I also tend to think of "steamy" sex, all-consuming desires, intrigue, whatnot.  I have actually not tried very hard to catch movies with this tone.  I'm sure some are great but I'm not drawn in easily (for instance Lust, Caution is in my queue, waiting and waiting for me to bother).   But these two movies took a different angle and I really liked:

Warm Water Under a Red Bridge

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warm_Water … Red_Bridge
This one is not very serious at all, it's kind of a like a weird funny dream.  Really tickled me.  It's about a guy who drifts into town and falls in love with a woman who floods the house when she comes.  The score to the movie is weird, the people are weird.  Fun.

Seems like a kind of tone about sex (or a mixture of other things) that US films just aren't able/willing to mix with sex. 

The other I just saw tonight:
Vibrator

http://www.midnighteye.com/reviews/vibrator.shtml
This one was a fairly serious relationship movie.  It was a bit of typical indie style in that it has a few arty 'motifs' and is just narrowly focused on this single relationship with no outside world.  Girl has fling with guy driving truck, tags along on a road trip, gets emotionally involved.  And she's kinda messed up (abused is the sense I got, although it doesn't really say), but is able to work through things, freak out a bit, and still be understood by him.  Overall not a heavy film, kind of sweet, but emotional toward the end.  And they make the sexytime.  The music is pretty cool too, a lot of it sounds like American folk music somehow, but it's Japanese songs.  The director apparently did a lot of "pink film" before this (Japanese softcore movies from the 60s to the 80s), I'm curious bout those now.

So I guess what these both have in common, oddly funny, funnily odd, and good story with meaningful character-driven plot-relevant sex.  What else is there in that vein?

sonice

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Registered: 25-04-09

Posts: 70

Re: Japanese erotic movies

The Salior Who Fell From Grace With The Sea. The story was written by a Yukio Mishima. I don't know if a japanese version exits but I remember and english version with Sarah Miles and Kris Kristofferson that rock my world as a youth.

domC

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Registered: 24-02-11

Posts: 88

Re: Japanese erotic movies

Vibrator is one of my favourite films.  The director, Ryuichi Hiroki, cut his teeth directing pinku films and it definitely comes across in the frank, close-up and, I think, very honest (and hot) sex scenes between the protagonists, Rei and Okabe.  It's really rare to see sex scenes on mainstream films that seem genuine and emotionally involved, rather than just artifice and poses.  It was first shown to me by a guy who was trying to convince me to give him a go and potentially, the story of an alcoholic, deeply anxious woman who makes one bold, spontaneous decision in her life to jump into a truck driver's cab and travel with him may seem like a strange film choice when you're trying to woo someone, but he was spot on.  I think he had me when in the first five minutes of the film, the female lead walks into a supermarket and grabs only alcohol.  Periodically, I go back and watch it, partly to remind myself that occasionally I need to be bold and that extraordinary moments are equal parts coincidence and action.  The novel is also worth checking out, too - it's readily available and was written by Maria Akasaka. 

I never knew there was a film adaptation of the Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea -!  I'm almost embarrassed that I didn't know that!  I will hang my head in cultural shame and go watch it right now.

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