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While I don't really want to defend this sub-par Japanese "pink" film, it is unfortunate when one of these films finds an audience that neither understands nor appreciates this genre. First off, people need to understand that films like this were SIMULATED. The sex is not real (and is highly stylized due to the Japanese aversion to pubic hair and genitalia), and the "rape" is certainly not real even if the Japanese actresses involved are far more talented your usual adult starlets. The elaborate rope-play was, by necessity, real, but the scene where the villain drips copious amounts of hot candle wax on the torsos of two women obviously was not.

These films are also FICTIONAL. There is, in Japan and other countries today, a small niche market within the AV (adult video) market of CONSENSUAL BDSM films where women (and sometimes men) are genuinely, but CONSENSUALLY, abused. Even these films though wouldn't hold much appeal for a genuine rapist or sexual sadist because they ARE consensual. But such a deviant would be even MORE disappointed in "pink" films which are fictional and simulated as well. Moreover, the "pink" films have much higher production values than even consensual BDSM videos today and were even backed by major Japanese studios like Nikkatsu and Toei. Clearly, they did not only appeal to sex deviants and perverts. Just like how not everyone (or really, anyone) who likes Hannibal Lector is into serial killing cannibalism, not everyone who likes films like this into real-life rape and non-consensual BDSM. There is a difference between fiction and and reality, between sex fantasy and reality, and even between fiction and sex fantasy.

A genuine problem with this particular "pink" film is it has a very anemic plot compared to a lot of the more artistic and accomplished "pink" films . A young teacher rescues a female student from a rapist and gets raped herself. A male colleague seems sympathetic in the aftermath of the rape, but soon becomes unhinged and kidnaps her and the student (when she comes looking for her). After that, the movie degenerates into a series of bondage and rape scenes and (literal) torture porn. The ending is both mean-spirited and perfunctory. It doesn't surprise me this leaves a bad taste in some people's mouths, even if frankly it doesn't hold hot candle wax to some of the truly disturbing "pink" films like "Lolita Vibrator Torture". This is not good and it's obviously not for everyone, but some reviews of it frankly read like me trying to review a Hollywood rom-com.

Right, well I didn't really know that I was getting myself into a Japanese softcore S/M movie here, when I sat down to watch "Female Teacher In Rope Hell" (aka "Dan Oniroku: Onna kyôshi nawa jigoku"). Sure, I had expected that this would be an exploitation movie, but not that it would be mere inches away from being actual pornography.

Sure, director Shôgorô Nishimura managed to keep the movie tactful enough so it didn't cross over and became pornography, but it was bordering. And actually it was a tad too much for my liking, and I must admit that I just gave up a little more than halfway through the movie. It was so repetitive and pointless that there simply was no sense in watching the movie to the end.

The storyline was so simplistic that it was painful. Actually, the storyline was almost non-existing. A man kidnaps a woman and keeps her as a slave in his basement. And that was essentially the entire movie.

I can't really say much about the acting in the movie, because there was nothing extraordinary to be had here. This movie made very little requirements in terms of proper acting skills from the people on the cast list. Junko Mabuki, playing Sayuri, the kidnapped teacher - just had to put on physical performances, and that was basically it.

I am sure that there is and was an audience for a movie such as "Female Teacher In Rope Hell", but personally I didn't care much for what the movie had to offer. My rating for this ordeal of a movie is a mere three out of ten stars, solely given the production value of the movie.