HOOKED ON PINKU

It takes a lot of guts to watch these sometimes.


A long while back we put together a collection of posters for bdsm themed Japanese pinku films. Why? Why not. But we hadn’t seen the movies. One was called Shojo no harawata, aka Entrails of Virgin, aka Guts of a Virgin, and we came across it recently and figured let’s watch this thing. The story concerns a slimy fashion photographer and his equally slimy buddies who take two models to a secluded cabin with the intent to take advantage of them, but are attacked by a hairy monster from the woods who has a massive boner. The film is part of Kazuo Komizu’s, aka Gaira’s, “splatter-eros” trilogy along with Bijo no harawata, aka Guts of a Beautiful Woman and Gômon kifujin, aka Female Inquisitor. A few of his other directorial credits include Violence porno: Jôkan and Violence porno: Nawa to bôkô. You get the idea.

We try not to make any cultural judgments when we watch these pinkus. There’s a line from James M. Cain (you knew we’d work in a pulp author somehow) where one of his characters says of bullfights, “If it was my own country I’d be against it, but when it’s somebody else’s, I go.” That’s how we feel. When something in a pinku flick confuses us or weirds us out, we generally shrug and go, “Not my place to criticize.” And now, of course, we’ll criticize. In terms of Japanese erotica, the actresses make noises of pleasure that are indistinguishable—at least to our ears—from noises of pain. Not cool. It’s sort of a whining, like this feels soooo good I’m on the verge of tears. That’s one reason we don’t generally get turned on by pinku movies. While the women are uniformly fantastic, their erotic acting is way off target for us.

The blurred line between pleasure and pain in this movie is liable to do a number on your head. And if it doesn’t, the scene where a model masturbates with a severed arm while blowing the monster certainly will. Hope we didn’t give too much away there. As far as the entrails aspect, well, the title is provocative, but while there’s a virgin, we see no entrails. Thank fucking God. And because sex in pinku movies is mostly implied due to laws against the showing of pubic hair or sex organs, the sexualized violence is largely implied too. It’s cleverly implied though. So be forewarned. We can’t recommend this movie, but the poster art is so amazing we had to share it. It’s signed—see just below—but we were not able to ascertain by whom. Too bad. There’s real talent there. More so than in the film. Shojo no harawata premiered in Japan today in 1986.
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