Musicianmagic

A teacher already engaged to another teacher gets raped at her school by a homeless man. The next day she is kidnapped and locked into a cage by the music teacher (not her fiancee) to become his wife and slave.

This film has multiple issues. The largest is a lack of story or script. There's probably five pages of dialogue. The story could be summed up in 4 or 5 sentences tho I don't want to give away what little it is. The story doesn't go far. More time is spent on sex, bondage and torture. That leads to the other issues. The sex is not erotic or interesting. The bondage is just putting on & taking off bondage clothing. The torture is usually just way too fake looking that you can't take the characters seriously. The whipping is always just thrown in the air obviously away from the body. It's like they wanted it to look fake. Some of the other torture either looked fake or just slow moving that you lose interest but I give 2 of my rating stars for what wasn't.

The lead actress Junko Mabuki was very good. The other two main actors were mediocre. Just lacked a good script and some competent direction. Skip this turkey.

A couple with a young daughter are in a sexless marriage. The wife works in marketing at a big company & is fired after a mistake. She meets up with a neighbor that owns a sex toy shop. Then decides to become a partner in the business. At the same time she works to bring sex back to her marriage.

The theme of this film might have you think it's a softcore sex movie. Not even close. There is no actual nudity. There are a couple of sex scenes but not even softcore and mostly played to lighten the mood. But you do get to see a number of dildos which are worked into the comedy of the film. I did laugh a few times. A few.

The two stories of the sex shop & the relationship between the husband and wife were interesting. Unfortunately, some things didn't work. A few times they went for cheap laughs with something ridiculous but didn't come across as funny. Just stupid. A few other things were very predictable.

I'd really rate this movie a 6 1/2. It was just okay. Had a few laughs and I do mean few. The main characters were interesting. Just felt like the movie wanted to be more explicit but didn't. Or should have. They could have had funnier scenes. Too restrained. Probably wouldn't recommend to most people.

A rich man wants to create an S&M film for his own entertainment. He hires an author and director. They hire an actress who it turns out didn't know it was an S&M or sex film and they keep her under duress & locked up. And they hire an actor who doesn't know much more than the actress. Then they lock up both the actor & actress in a cell in the rich man's dungeon celler.

First half of movie is just building toward the actual making of the fictional S&M movie. Takes way too long as it's doing basically nothing until then. The script doesn't have much too it so they fill the time with bits of nothing such as several second still shots of the actress's back while sitting on the floor, a wristcuff hanging on the dungeon cell door or the blank stare of the author occasionally hearing his thoughts thru the blank stare. There's a camera filming the fictional movie but nobody ever operates it and The camera is outside looking thru bars of the cell so wouldn't capture much in reality. Also they're supposed to be making an sadomasochism film with torture but it's 99% sex. In fact nearly all what would qualify as S&M is before any (fictional) scene they act out. There is nudity and sex scenes but nothing explicit. Also the sex always looks very fake. Not sure if bad acting or the (real) director was asleep.

When they're filming the fictional film what we're seeing often switches very abruptly at times between live scenes in the cell & the author's story being played out in his head. It gets confusing at times.

I can't tell you anything they got right in this movie. There really was only about 35 minutes of story. The rest could have been edited out. This movie doesn't really make a lot of sense either. Much better films than this one.