Virgin Rope Makeover

Virgin Rope Makeover (少女縄化粧, Shōjo nawa geshō) is a 1979 Japanese pink film directed by Mamoru Watanabe starring Mayuko Hino and Naomi Oka.

Virgin Rope Makeover[1]
Directed byMamoru Watanabe
Written byMamoru Watanabe
Banmei Takahashi
StarringMayuko Hino
Naomi Oka
CinematographyShirō Suzuki
Distributed byShintōhō Eiga
Release date
  • June 1979 (1979-06)
Running time
60 min.
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Plot

In this Meiji period erotic costume drama, Shino (Mayuko Hino) has seen her step-mother Aya (Naomi Oka) take over the family inheritance and invite her petty criminal lover (Masayoshi Nogami) into the family home after the death of her father (Kōji Kokonoe). Shino leaves to go on the traditional temple pilgrimage around the island of Shikoku. During her pilgrimage, she is assaulted several times by bandits but eventually returns home disguised as a geisha to take her revenge[2]

Cast
  • Mayuko Hino (日野繭子) as Shino
  • Naomi Oka (岡尚美) as Aya
  • Masayoshi Nogami (野上正義)
  • Shirō Shimomoto
  • Kōji Kokonoe (九重京司)
  • Nobuko Nakahara (中原信子)

Production

Director Mamoru Watanabe made his debut with the now lost film Hussy in 1965. Virgin Rope Makeover is a remake of that film.[3] Watanabe also made other films at this time working with actresses Mayuko Hino and Naomi Oka with Oka usually playing the mature woman luring the innocent Hino into sadistic adventures. He also continued to collaborate with screenwriter Banmei Takahashi in other pink films for Shintōhō Eiga.[2]

Reception

Virgin Rope Makeover was awarded the Best Film award at the first Zoom-Up Awards given by the magazine of the same name in 1980. Director Mamoru Watanabe took the prize for Best Director and Mayuko Hino won for Best Actress.[2][4][5][6]

Release

Virgin Rope Makeover was released theatrically in Japan in June 1979.[7] It was re-released on VHS tape by Tairiku Shobo (陸書房) in January 1990.[8]

References
  1. Infobox data from 少女縄化粧 (in Japanese). JMDB. Retrieved 2015-03-20.
  2. Sharp, Jasper (2008). Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema. Guildford: FAB Press. pp. 211–212. ISBN 978-1-903254-54-7.
  3. Sharp, p. 60
  4. "PINK FILM CHRONICLE 1962-2012 -午後８時の映画祭" (in Japanese). www2u.biglobe.ne.jp. Archived from the original on 2013-10-30. Retrieved 2013-10-28.
  5. "ピンク映画の歴史 - 1962～現在 (Pink movie history—1962–present)" (in Japanese). www.uplink.co.jp. Retrieved 2008-12-02.
  6. "Mayuko Hino". X City. Archived from the original on 2008-02-28. Retrieved 2008-12-02.
  7. 少女縄化粧 (in Japanese). JMDB. Retrieved 2015-03-20.
  8. 日野繭子・岡尚美ほか:少女縄化粧 (<VHS>) (in Japanese). ASIN 4803325405.


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