Widow's Perverted Hell

Widow's Perverted Hell

Theatrical poster for Widow's Perverted Hell (1991)
Directed by Hisayasu Satō[1]
Written by Kyōko Godai
Starring Yuri Hime
Shōichiro Sakata
Kiyomi Itō
Yutaka Ikejima
Cinematography Masashi Inayoshi
Edited by Shōji Sakai
Production
company
Shishi Productions
Distributed by Xces Films
Release dates
 April 26, 1991
Running time
 61 minutes
Country Japan
Language Japanese

Widow's Perverted Hell (未亡人変態地獄 Mibōjin Hentai Jigoku) aka Look Into Me is a 1991 Japanese pink film directed by Hisayasu Satō. It won the Best Film 6th place award at the Pink Grand Prix.[2]

Synopsis

A married couple enjoy engaging in S&M sexual behavior, and the wife, Yuri, asserts, "The ultimate SM play is death." After her husband dies, supposedly accidentally, Yuri is left alone, grieving and self-destructive. Her mental state deteriorates as she watches and masturbates joylessly to the home-made SM videos she made with her husband. In the film's climax, Yuri goes to a public square, nude and bound, and pleads with passing strangers to aid her masturbation.[3][4]

Cast

Release and critical appraisal

Hisayasu Satō filmed Widow's Perverted Hell from a script by Kyōko Godai for Kan Mukai's Shishi Productions and it was released theatrically in Japan by Xces Films on April 26, 1991.[5] At the fourth annual Pink Grand Prix, the Japanese pink film community chose it as the sixth best pink film release of the year.[2] On April 9, 2010 it was re-released as White-Skin Widow: Mistreat Me... (白い肌の未亡人　私を苛めて… Shiroi Hada no Mibōjin: Watashi o Ijimete...).[6][7]

Allmovie judges most of Widow's Perverted Hell to be a "rather lackluster", "routine" film from Satō, which is intended as a "dark meditation on the unhinging effects of grief". However, according to the review, the final sequence makes the film "worth seeing". "Like Divine's memorable strut through the streets of Baltimore in Pink Flamingos, this scene was shot guerrilla-style, with no warning, and some of the reactions from unsuspecting pedestrians are absolutely priceless."[4] In their Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films, the Weissers give the film two-and-a-half out of four stars, writing that this is "[a]nother trenchant example of Sato's guerilla shooting".[3]

Bibliography

English

Japanese

Notes

  1. 1 2 未亡人変態地獄 (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 2010-04-16.
  2. 1 2 1991年度ベストテン　＜第4回ピンク大賞＞ (in Japanese). P.G. Web Site. Archived from the original on September 3, 2010. Retrieved 2010-04-16. External link in |publisher= (help)
  3. 1 2 Weisser, Thomas; Yuko Mihara Weisser (1998). Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films. Miami: Vital Books : Asian Cult Cinema Publications. p. 471. ISBN 1-889288-52-7.
  4. 1 2 Firsching, Robert. "Mibojin Hentai Jigoku: Plot synopsis". Allmovie. Retrieved 2010-04-16.
  5. ↑ 未亡人変態地獄 (in Japanese). Japanese Cinema Database (Agency for Cultural Affairs). Retrieved 2010-04-16. External link in |publisher= (help)
  6. ↑ "2010" (in Japanese). P.G. Web Site. Retrieved 2010-04-16. External link in |publisher= (help)
  7. ↑ "2010" (in Japanese). Xces homepage. Retrieved 2010-04-16. External link in |publisher= (help)
Preceded by
E-Cup Real Action Take Two: Rich & Ripe
1989 due to tie for 5th place in 1990		 Pink Grand Prix: Sixth Best Film
1991 		Succeeded by
Hard Lesbian: Genuine Tongue Technique
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