We just saw Junko Mabuki last week, and here she is again in the roman porno vehicle Dan Oniroku bara jigoku, which is known in English as Hell of Roses. Oniroku Dan was Japan’s perv laureate of erotic bondage literature, and he became so famous that his name often appeared on the front of movies adapted from his material. And his material was pretty fringy stuff, at least by our standards. Last week’s Oniroku Dan movie was centered around a slimy photographer’s bondage obsession. This time there are two photographers, working in tandem to produce bdsm shots of young women who don’t have any real idea what they’ve signed up for. Junko plays a famous singer who gets into their crosshairs. She’d never submit voluntarily, so the two predators subdue her with chloroform and spirit her away to an isolated house. Once she awakens she puts up a real fight and even manages to bloody one of her captors, but she still ends up caged, roped, dildoed, etc., and then there’s that roman porno pee thing again. And a snake. And a kinky blood fixation. But you know what this movie doesn’t have? Roses. Go figure. Dan Oniroku bara jigoku premiered today in 1980.
