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
Editing by	Shōji Sakai
Studio	Shishi Productions
Distributed by	Xces Films
Release date(s)	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

• Yuri Hime (姫ゆり)^[1]
• Shōichiro Sakata (坂田祥一朗)
• Kiyomi Itō
• Yutaka Ikejima
• Aya Midorikawa (水鳥川彩)
• Kōichi Imaizumi (今泉浩一)

Release and critical appraisal

Poster to Widow's Perverted Hell (1991) in its 2010 re-release as White-Skin Widow: Mistreat Me...^[5][6]

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.^[7] 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...^?).^[5][6]

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

• Mibojin Hentai Jigoku at AllRovi
• Mibôjin hentai jigoku (1991) at the Internet Movie Database
• "MIBOJIN HENTAI JIGOKU". Complete Index to World Film. http://www.citwf.com/film222866.htm. Retrieved 2010-04-16. 
• 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. 

Japanese

• "未亡人変態地獄" (in Japanese). Japanese Cinema Database (Agency for Cultural Affairs). http://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/details/19902. Retrieved 2010-04-16. 
• "未亡人変態地獄" (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1991/do000760.htm. Retrieved 2010-04-16. 
• "白い肌の未亡人 私を苛めて…" (in Japanese). Xces homepage. http://www.shinnihoneizo.co.jp/xces/2010/kaisetu/6-b.html. Retrieved 2010-04-16. 

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b} "未亡人変態地獄" (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1991/do000760.htm. Retrieved 2010-04-16. 
2. ^ ^{a b} "1991年度ベストテン　＜第4回ピンク大賞＞" (in Japanese). P.G. Web Site. http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/award/1991.htm. Retrieved 2010-04-16. ^{[dead link]}
3. ^ ^{a b} 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. ^ ^{a b} Firsching, Robert. "Mibojin Hentai Jigoku: Plot synopsis". Allmovie. http://www.allmovie.com/work/mibojin-hentai-jigoku-238632. Retrieved 2010-04-16. 
5. ^ ^{a b} "2010" (in Japanese). P.G. Web Site. http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/data/2010/newmovie2010.htm. Retrieved 2010-04-16. 
6. ^ ^{a b} "2010" (in Japanese). Xces homepage. http://www.shinnihoneizo.co.jp/xces/2010/kaisetu/6-b.html. Retrieved 2010-04-16. 
7. ^ "未亡人変態地獄" (in Japanese). Japanese Cinema Database (Agency for Cultural Affairs). http://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/details/19902. Retrieved 2010-04-16. 

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