Office Lady Rope Slave

Office Lady Rope Slave (団鬼六　ＯＬ縄奴隷, Dan Oniroku OL nawa dorei) aka Oniroku Dan's OL Rope Slave and sometimes mis-referenced as Oniroku Dan's Office Lady Rope Hell (団鬼六　ＯＬ縄地獄, Dan Oniroku OL nawa jigoku) is a 1981 Japanese film in Nikkatsu's Roman porno series, directed by Katsuhiko Fujii and starring Junko Mabuki.

Office Lady Rope Slave
Theatrical poster for Office Lady Rope Slave (1981)
Directed byKatsuhiko Fujii[1]
Written by
Produced byAkihiko Yamaki
StarringJunko Mabuki
CinematographyNobumasa Mizunoo
Edited byShinji Yamada
Music byHachirō Kai
Distributed byNikkatsu
Release date
January 23, 1981
Running time
68 min.
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Synopsis

Two assistants to an S&M photographer decide to practise their master's art on their own. They convince a young woman to pose for them and subject her to bondage and torture during the photography session. After their work is finished, the three go to the home of the young woman's ex-boyfriend and attack him and his wife.[2]

Cast
  • Junko Mabuki - Kimiyo Ezaki[3]
  • Asami Ogawa - Kikuko Okazaki
  • Miki Yamaji - Yumiko Mizuhara
  • Yōko Azusa - Keiko Fujikawa
  • Masayoshi Nogami - Kaoru Mitamura
  • Koshirō Asami - Taketsugu Sawada
  • Hiroshi Shimakazu - Mikio Misaki
  • Yūdai Ishiyama - Teruo Okazaki
  • Tatsuya Hamaguchi - Bank manager
  • Kensuke Tamai - Cleaning Shop Owner
  • Setsuko Yamaguchi - Shizue
  • Hiroko Uchida - Takako
  • Chiharu Migiya - Office lady

Background

The film marked one of the most significant performances of Junko Mabuki as Nikkatsu's second "SM Queen" (SMの女王, SM no joō). Actor Masayoshi Nogami made a career playing brutal rapists, ranging from Seduction of the Flesh (1968) to Office Lady Rope Slave. He surprised the pink film audience in 1983 by venturing into gay-themed pink films with Legend of the Big Penis: Beautiful Mystery and Mansion of Roses: Passion of Men.[4]

Critical appraisal

In their Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films, the Weissers give Office Lady Rope Slave a negative review, giving it one and a half points out of four. They judge that Oniroku Dan's script shows none of the style that has made his work popular. They also fault director Fujii as being barely competent. "This is truly shabby entertainment," they conclude, "There's probably a redeeming maxim stuck somewhere in this mess, but the whole thing is too tasteless and too misogynist for anyone to care."[2]

Availability

Office Lady Rope Slave was released theatrically in Japan on January 23, 1981.[1] It was released to home video in VHS format on December 22, 1989.[5] It was released on DVD in Japan on December 21, 2007, as part of Geneon's tenth wave of Nikkatsu Roman porno series.[6]

Bibliography

English
  • "DAN ONIROKU OL NAWA DOREI". Complete Index to World Film. Retrieved 2009-09-19.
  • Dan Oniroku OL nawa dorei at IMDb
  • Sharp, Jasper (2008). Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema. Guildford: FAB Press. ISBN 978-1-903254-54-7.
  • Weisser, Thomas; Yuko Mihara Weisser (1998). Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films. Miami: Vital Books : Asian Cult Cinema Publications. ISBN 1-889288-52-7.

Japanese

Notes
  1. "団鬼六 ＯＬ縄地獄". Japanese Cinema Database (Agency for Cultural Affairs). Retrieved 2009-09-19.
  2. Weisser, Thomas; Yuko Mihara Weisser (1998). Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films. Miami: Vital Books : Asian Cult Cinema Publications. p. 298. ISBN 1-889288-52-7.
  3. 団鬼六 ＯＬ縄地獄(邦画) (in Japanese). Kinema Junpo. Retrieved 2009-09-19.
  4. Weisser, pp. 36, 229, 266.
  5. "団鬼六 OL縄奴隷 (VHS)" (in Japanese). Amazon.com. Retrieved 2009-09-19.
  6. ジェネオン エンタテインメントよりＤＶＤリリース (in Japanese). P.G. Web Site. Archived from the original on 2012-08-05. Retrieved 2011-09-27.
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