UK Premiere

Part of the Tokyo XXX Series

Playing with 'Immoral Films: Dear Ms. Ôgi'

Short Synopsis

The latest example of the Japanese pink film niche.

Review

This latest example of the Japanese softcore pink film to play at Raindance begins with squid-jigging Haruo as he attempts to land a legendary tentacled whopper reported to be hiding somewhere out in Tokyo Bay, while his girlfriend Rika lends her enthusiastic support despite the lingering presence of a jealous ex named Iwata. Then Haruo’s roguish Uncle Takashi arrives in town to further rock the boat, looking for “a new start” and a place to stay for a while.

A natural born loser, Uncle Takashi proves quite a handful for Haruo, permanently quaffing vitamin drinks while trying to get it on with every female within reach and literally marking his territory by scrawling his name on their bare backs with a red marker pen once the act is done.

Things take a more serious turn for the worse however, when while praying at a Shinto shrine, Takashi receives a deadly shot of venom from a snake which transfixes itself to his privates, and he is whisked off to the land of the dead. It is left to Haruo to play Orpheus and take the trip down to the underworld to rescue his errant uncle from the grasp of Enma, King of Hell, but it soon becomes pretty obvious that when you’re someone like Uncle Takashi, hell ain’t a bad place to be….

Jasper Sharp