Female

Five short films, adapted from five novels written by female authors, by five different (not all female) directors. This opens with a stage full of scantily-clad showgirls dancing, so don't expect it to be too representative of the feminist front.

The short segments all have Japanese titles, so I will supply my own.

"I slept with my teacher" : A woman returns to her childhood home for the funeral of her high school teacher. She visits a peach grove, reminiscing about her affair with her teacher, involving peaches from that very grove, and meets a former classmate who used to watch her and the teach go at it. Good, peachy soft-core.

"Hijacking a cab" : An aging hostess catches a cab, with a woman driver, which is soon hijacked by a young punkette. The three are all desperate for money, in one way or another, and end up bonding as they aimlessly drive around. It ends, as all good films do, with urination. Actually called "Drive till you see the sun".

"I slept with my coworker... in my dreams" : A factory worker manages to score a day off in exchange for a dinner date with her boss, and goes to South Sea Island. There she picks up an incense burner which, when fed a hair of a person, causes you to dream, wetly, of them. She tries it out on the salesman she has a crush on, and boy does it work. Eventually she kinda goes over the edge, though judging from the dreamsex it was probably worth it. Actually called "Licking Nights".

"I wanted to sleep with my friend's mom" : A young boy goes home with his bossy classmate who insists he is her boyfriend. He catches a flash of her mom's ankles and is smitten: no more young waifs for him! Unfortunately his mom isn't too interested in his prepubescent offering, though she certainly seems to enjoy the attention. It ends, as these stories do, with the moving-on of everyone concerned.

"I slept with a gangster -- no, two gangsters" : A middle-aged woman in a small town is the kept woman of an aging Tokyo gangster. Lonely, bored, she wants to live and socialize, but he prefer to keep her hidden away. Eventually he introduces her to his heir apparent, complications arise, and everything seems to end up alright. Actually called "Jewel Beetle".

All in all, very well-done, though trying to present itself as artistic erotica -- something along the lines of Altman's Aria. Or a Japanese Ken Russell.

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Fîmeiru (IMDB)

Wince : [*____]
Flinch : [**___]
Retch : [*____]
Gape : [***__]

Beerequisite : [**___]
Pornability : [****_]
Obscurity : [**___]
Explicability : [***__]