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Ichijo's Wet Lust
Theatrical posterDirected by Tatsumi Kumashiro[1] Written by Tatsumi Kumashiro Starring Sayuri Ichijō
Hiroko Isayama
Kazuko ShirakawaMusic by Noboru Yoda Cinematography Shinsaku Himeda Editing by Ko Suzuki Distributed by Nikkatsu Release date(s) October 7, 1972 Running time 69 min. Country Japan Language Japanese Ichijo's Wet Lust (一条さゆり 濡れた欲情 Ichijō Sayuri: nureta yokujō ) aka Ichijo's Wet Desire, Drenched Passion, Sayuri Ichijo: Moist Desire, Following Desire and Sayuri Ichijō: Wet Lust is a 1972 Japanese film in Nikkatsu's Roman porno series, directed by Tatsumi Kumashiro and starring the famous stripper Sayuri Ichijō as herself, and co-starring Kazuko Shirakawa and Hiroko Isayama. Considered one of the best films in the series, in 1999 Japanese critics voted it one of the 100 best Japanese films of the 20th century.[2]
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Synopsis
Famous real-life stripper Sayuri Ichijō appears as herself in this fictional account of her daily life. The story involves Ichijō's relationships with two men: Her boyfriend, and the strip-club owner. Ichijō considers her work in striptease to be an art-form and pushes the boundaries of legality. Harumi, a younger stripper determined to outdo Ichijō, contributes to the ever-increasing extremity of the strip acts, which result in continuous problems with the police, and numerous arrests.[3][4][5]
Cast
- Sayuri Ichijō: Herself[6]
- Hiroko Isayama: Harumi
- Kazuko Shirakawa: Mari
- Go Awazu: Daikichi
- Akira Takahashi: Isamu
- Tamaki Komayama: Jirō
- Tetsusen Nakahira: Drunk
- Shōichi Ozawa: Ramen shop owner
- Moeko Ezawa: Police woman
- Kafusu Nakada: Barker
- Botan Nakada: Barker
Critical reception
Ichijo's Wet Lust was a huge box-office hit on its first release.[7] It was also popular with critics. The mainstream Kinema Jumpo gave Tatsumi Kumashiro awards for Best Director and Best Screenplay for the year.[4][8] Kinema Jumpo also gave Hiroko Isayama, who played Ichijō's young stripper rival, the award for Best Actress.[9][10] Critics continue to hold the film in high esteem, and in 1999 the mainstream cinema journal Kinema Jumpo voted Ichijo's Wet Lust one of the 100 best Japanese films of the 20th century.[2]
Lead actress Sayuri Ichijō has been singled out for praise for her performance in this film. A contemporary Variety review wrote that Ichijō, "has grit, good-natured rebelliousness and a comic verve that raise the pic into a comedic drama that transcends its type and milieu for some regular as well as grind chances abroad..."[3] Allmovie writes of lead actress Ichijō, "Her brilliant and humorous performance, and her dedication to stripping... lift this picture out of the mainstream."[4] In their Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films, the Weissers give the film three and a half out of four points, and write that Ichijō "delivers another delightful performance here, especially in the highly erotic striptease numbers which include generous portions of candle-wax S&M, bondage and perverse sexuality ...but no pubic hair."[11]
Style and themes
Ichijo's Wet Lust was director Tatsumi Kumashiro's second Roman Porno film.[7] In depicting the life of a sex industry worker, the film fits into one of Kumashiro's recurring subjects, foreshadowed in his early, unsuccessful film Front Row Life (1968).[12] Kumashiro's Wet Lust: Twenty One Strippers (1974) was an unofficial sequel to Ichijo's Wet Lust, and was even more successful than its predecessor.[13][14] A later Kumashiro film with a real stripper playing herself in the title role is Madoka Mika: The Woman Who Wets Her Finger (1984).[15]
Sayuri Ichijō had become notorious in 1970 for creating the tokudashi or "open stage" form of striptease. Ichijō involved the audience in her act by passing out a magnifying glass, with which selected members of the audience were allowed to perform a "genital inspection" on the dancer.[15] Much of Ichijō's act is portrayed in the film, such as an elaborate strip routine in which she sheds a kimono with the use of a samurai sword. Other routines simulate lesbian masturbation, and show the stripper dripping hot wax on herself, and, afterward, soothing her skin with lemon.[16][17] Because of the censorship of Japanese pornography, Ichijō's most famous routine—the "genital inspection"— could not be shown in the film. According to Film Quarterly, Kumashiro instead "conjures up the physicality of the vagina" in a scene in which Harumi, the stripping competitor, raises one leg and sprays milk onto the face of a mesmerized member of the audience.[18]
Kumashiro's long battles against censorship are also part of the framework of the film. The women in the film are the objects of police attention, while the men who make a living off them and are entertained by them are left alone. Film Quarterly writes that Kumashiro portrays this situation, "without any hypocritical moralizing."[19] Ichijō's troubles with the law are shown both in her arrests within the narrative of the film, and in a caption which informs the audience that Ichijō was under prosecution for obscenity during the filming.[17] Film Quarterly notes that Ichijō's and Harumi's tokudashi performances, as presented in the film, can be seen by U.S. audiences as demeaning to women. It is pointed out that the actual Ichijō fought for the right to do these performances as a form of freedom of expression. In the context of the film, Harumi's final tokudashi performance, in which she ejaculates on the face of the audience member, is seen as a form of triumph.[19]
Availability
Ichijo's Wet Lust was released on home video in VHS format on December 12, 1988, and on DVD on July 27, 2001.[20] [21] It was re-released on DVD on December 22, 2006, as part of Geneon's sixth wave of Nikkatsu Roman porno series.[22] On March 23, 2010, Kino International released three Tatsumi Kumashiro films on DVD in the U.S. Along with Twisted Path of Love (1972) and Yakuza Goddess: Lust and Honor (1973), they released Ichijo's Wet Lust under the title Sayuri Ichijo: Following Desire.[23]
References
Notes
- ^ Infobox data from "一条さゆり 濡れた欲情". Japanese Cinema Database (Agency for Cultural Affairs). http://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/details/11866. Retrieved 2009-09-01.
- ^ a b "キネマ旬報「オールタイムベスト・ベスト100」日本映画編(1999年版)" (in Japanese). mycinemakan.fc2web.com. http://mycinemakan.fc2web.com/movie2/best100b.htm. Retrieved 2009-09-20. "31 一条さゆり 濡れた欲情 神代辰巳"
- ^ a b Mosk. "Ichijo Sayuri: Nureta Yokujo". Variety (0042-2738) , 16 January 1974, p.40.
- ^ a b c Fountain, Clarke. "Ichijo Sayuri: Nureta Yokujo". Allmovie. http://www.allmovie.com/work/ichijo-sayuri-nureta-yokujo-155671. Retrieved 2007-09-11.
- ^ Johnson, William (2003). "A New View of Porn: The Films of Tatsumi Kumashiro" (PDF). Film Quarterly, vol. 57, no.1, Fall 2003. University of California Press. pp. 4–5. Archived from the original on 2007-03-04. http://web.archive.org/web/20070304111719/http://www.filmquarterly.org/pdfs/article5701.pdf. Retrieved 2007-03-06.
- ^ "一条さゆり 濡れた欲情(1972)" (in Japanese). www.allcinema.net. http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=144132. Retrieved 2009-09-01.
- ^ a b Johnson, p. 2.
- ^ Weisser, Thomas; Yuko Mihara Weisser (1998). Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films. Miami: Vital Books : Asian Cult Cinema Publications. pp. 204–205. ISBN 1-88928-852-7.
- ^ Johnson, p. 8, n. 13.
- ^ "Awards for Ichijo Sayuri: Nureta yokujo (1972)". Internet Movie Database. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0220570/awards. Retrieved 2009-09-20.
- ^ Weisser, p. 205.
- ^ Sharp, Jasper (2008). Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema. Guildford: FAB Press. p. 27. ISBN 978-1-903254-54-7.
- ^ Sharp, p. 139.
- ^ Weisser, p. 204.
- ^ a b Sharp, p. 27-28.
- ^ Sharp, p. 28.
- ^ a b Johnson, p. 4.
- ^ Johnson, pp. 5-6.
- ^ a b Johnson, p. 5.
- ^ "濡れた欲情 (VHS)" (in Japanese). Amazon.com. http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B00005FD30/. Retrieved 2009-09-20.
- ^ "一条さゆり 濡れた欲情 (DVD)" (in Japanese). Amazon.com. http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B00005LPA7/. Retrieved 2009-09-20.
- ^ "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 2011-09-26.
- ^ Perkins, Rodney (2010-03-23). "DVD News: Kino Announces New DVDs from Tatsumi Kumashiro". twitchfilm.net. http://twitchfilm.net/news/2010/03/kino-announces-the-release-of-three-films-from-tatsumi-kumashiro-on-dvd.php. Retrieved 2010-04-18.
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- English
- "NURETA YOKUJO". Complete Index to World Film. http://www.citwf.com/film248338.htm. Retrieved 2009-09-01.
- Rosell, Rich (2010-04-17). "DVD Review: SAYURI ICHIJO: FOLLOWING DESIRE". www.digitallyobsessed.com. http://www.digitallyobsessed.com/displayreview.php?ID=2226. Retrieved 2010-04-18.
- 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
- "一条さゆり 濡れた欲情(1972)" (in Japanese). www.allcinema.net. http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=144132. Retrieved 2009-09-01.
- "一条さゆり 濡れた欲情" (in Japanese). Japanese Cinema Database (Agency for Cultural Affairs). http://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/details/11866. Retrieved 2009-09-01.
- "一条さゆり 濡れた欲情" (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1972/cv003010.htm. Retrieved 2009-09-01.
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External links
- Ichijo's Wet Lust at AllRovi
- Ichijo's Wet Lust at the Internet Movie Database
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