
What’s more interesting than the film itself is the persistence over the years of certain tropes unique to the series: As usual, there’s the wince-inducing pairing of soft nubile female voluptuousness with withered, aged male impotence there’s the voyeur’s idea of getting some other men to “train” one’s female partner, an idea that invariably backfires as badly as any Wile E. The film’s meager pleasures lie in a pulsating electronic score by Ko Ishikawa that’s often reminiscent of early Tangerine Dream, and the always elegant rope-work of bakushi (rope-bondage artist) Go Arisue, though the latter isn’t deployed until far too late in the film.


Surprisingly for an adult film starring a stripper, you will be well past the halfway point and still wondering whether there will in fact be any flesh bared on screen.
