Office Lady Rope Slave

Office Lady Rope Slave
Theatrical poster for Office Lady Rope Slave (1981)
Directed by	Katsuhiko Fujii[1]
Produced by	Akihiko Yamaki
Written by	Oniroku Dan (story) Norifumi Suzuki (screenplay)
Starring	Junko Mabuki
Music by	Hachirō Kai
Cinematography	Nobumasa Mizunoo
Editing by	Shinji Yamada
Distributed by	Nikkatsu
Release date(s)	January 23, 1981
Running time	68 min.
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

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.

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

Lead actress Junko Mabuki was promoted as the successor to S&M Queen Naomi Tani after Tani's unexpected retirement in 1979. Office Lady Rope Slave director Katsuhiko Fujii discovered Mabuki and gave her her film debut. S&M author Oniroku Dan also approved of Mabuki, and scripted White Uniform in Rope Hell (1980) especially for her. Mabuki, however, was not able to endure the physical strain that the S&M roles required, and retired from the profession after only two years.^[4]

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.^[5]

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.^[6] It was released on DVD in Japan on December 21, 2007, as part of Geneon's tenth wave of Nikkatsu Roman porno series.^[7]

Bibliography

English

• "DAN ONIROKU OL NAWA DOREI". Complete Index to World Film. http://www.citwf.com/film78492.htm. Retrieved 2009-09-19. 
• Dan Oniroku OL nawa dorei (1981) at the Internet Movie Database
• 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 1-88928-852-7. 

Japanese

• "団鬼六　ＯＬ縄奴隷(1981)" (in Japanese). www.allcinema.net. http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=147478. Retrieved 2009-09-19. 
• "団鬼六　ＯＬ縄地獄" (in Japanese). Japanese Cinema Database (Agency for Cultural Affairs). http://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/details/13461. Retrieved 2009-09-19. 
• "団鬼六　ＯＬ縄地獄" (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1981/de000060.htm. Retrieved 2009-09-19. 
• "団鬼六　ＯＬ縄地獄(邦画)" (in Japanese). Kinema Junpo. http://www.kinejun.jp/cinema/id/17014. Retrieved 2009-09-19. 
• "団鬼六・ＯＬ縄奴隷" (in Japanese). www.nikkatsu-romanporno.com. http://www.nikkatsu-romanporno.com/shousai/h23.html. Retrieved 2009-09-19. 

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b} "団鬼六　ＯＬ縄地獄". Japanese Cinema Database (Agency for Cultural Affairs). http://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/details/13461. Retrieved 2009-09-19. 
2. ^ ^{a b} Weisser, Thomas; Yuko Mihara Weisser (1998). Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films. Miami: Vital Books : Asian Cult Cinema Publications. p. 298. ISBN 1-88928-852-7. 
3. ^ "団鬼六　ＯＬ縄地獄(邦画)" (in Japanese). Kinema Junpo. http://www.kinejun.jp/cinema/id/17014. Retrieved 2009-09-19. 
4. ^ Weisser, pp. 68, 340.
5. ^ Weisser, pp. 36, 229, 266.
6. ^ "団鬼六 OL縄奴隷 (VHS)" (in Japanese). Amazon.com. http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/B00005FD03/. Retrieved 2009-09-19. 
7. ^ "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. http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/dvd/romanporno/romanporno.htm. Retrieved 2011-09-27.