# Actors: Rinako Hirasawa, Kikojiro Honda
# Directors: Osamu Sato

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New Tokyo Decadence - The Slave, made in 2007 by Osamu Sato. Young Rina is a high school girl by day and works as a dominatrix by night. She's good at it since she's actually a masochist so she knows what her clients want. When she moves to the city she gets a job at a company where her boss quickly exposes her as a masochist and takes her on as his slave.

She has to do whatever he says whenever he says it, no matter where they are. He is also allowed to have other women as long as they are not his slaves. It's not hard to figure out that their games will lead to jealousy. When a co-worker falls in love with Rina it gets even more complicated. Rina is played by AV and pink film actress Rinako Hirasawa who made her pink film debut in Shinji Imaoka's Frog Song in 2005 and New Tokyo Decadence is based on her own experiences in the world of BDSM. The good thing with New Tokyo is that it doesn't feel as Sato is being judgmental towards his characters in any way.

The s&m scenes never turn into just a gimmick for the film, and it doesn't cross over into abuse like in so many other films. There is no bad childhood or any other trauma to explain away Rina's masochistic behavior. Sato also creates some truly erotic scenes that takes place outside the bedroom without the actors shedding any clothes at all and as tired as it may sound, he makes you care about the characters. New Tokyo Decadence - The Slave is proof of the real talent that exists in the pink film world and I hope Pink Eiga will keep bringing it forth for a long time. --tasteofcinema.blogspot.com

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A secretary is introduced to the world of BDSM by her boss. She becomes his personal slave as they take a walk on the wild side of experimentations. This film is based on main actress, Rinako Hirasawa's personal experiences. Japanese language with English subtitles.

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Gong Li starred in Memoirs of a Geisha, the 2006 hit Miami Vice and Young Hannibal.

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Ju Dou- a dark, sensual and visually sumptuous drama, ju dou centers on the wife of a wealthy silk dyer (gong li) in 1920's china. Ju Dou is tortured by her husband and attracts the sympathy of her husband's nephew. The two begin an affair that could lead to tragedy. Endless way- Endless Way follows the hardship of ah ming. Forced into marriage with a young girl, he must forsake his true love, Ah Shui (Xia Lu). Unable to cope with the harsh life, his wife leaves him, allowing Ah Shui to step forth and care for Ah Ming and his ailing mother. Life show- adapted from Chi Li's famous novel, Life Show tells the story of Lai Shuang Yang (Tao Hong), who runs a small restaurant in shanghai. After her mother dies, Lai cares for her nephew, struggles to keep her brother away from drugs and tries to regain possession of the family home that was lost during the cultural revolution.

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Beautiful Women of China represents a 3-DVD set of traditional Chinese movies,each featuring a beautiful star, and each a movie unto its own. By far, Gong Li in "Ju Dou" is the best of the triparte. She plays the wife of a husband who owns a silk dying factory. He tortures her day and night requesting that she bear him a son but can't really do his part so he takes it out of her by tying her down and beating her. She falls for one of the hired help ala Lady Chatterly's Lover who gives her a son, yet the husband claims it to be his. The rest of the plot thickens and you can imagine how it develops.

Gong Li is fascinating to watch -- beautiful in face and body and plays the character well both in the verbal and non-verbal parts. Xia Lu, stars in the second DVD called Endless Way. This is a long, torturous movie of a village high up in the mountains that get their water from down below in a cistern that is slowly drying up. A push is made to tunnel through the mountain to bring water. I ached just watching the women and men carry water in wooden barrels up from the cistern and over narrow pathways to get this precious commodity to their village. Some of it gets spilled, barrels fall apart -- such as life.

The secondary title of this movie might be to "bear and forbear." The third DVD is a little more modern and urbane. Life Show stars Tao Hong, another beautiful, glamorous actress who takes on the role of caring for her nephew and drug addicted brother following her mother's death. The movie takes place in a small restaurant in Shanghai. If you are into understanding Chinese culture, its nuances, geographical diversity, cinematography, etc., then buy this 3-DVD Set. The beauty of these three actresses is in their acting skills and outward appearance. American movie goers might find these three films a little exasperating.

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Starring: Yun-ah Song, Hyeon-jun Shin Director: Sang-Gon Yoo
# Language: Japanese, Korean
# Subtitles: English, Spanish
# Studio: Tartan Video
# DVD Release Date: September 27, 2005
# Run Time: 88 minutes

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Hot on the trail of a serial killer who uses acid on his victims leaving behind only the bones, the police turn to Hyun-min, a former forensic sculptor adept in reconstructing faces by examining and interpreting skulls. With the victims' bones in his house, Hyun-min's daughter experiences disturbing visions of a long-haired woman in a white robe, a woman whom she may know. As he races against time to find the answers before the visions overtake his daughter, the deadly truth behind these victims reveals a sinister conspiracy that threatens everyone involved.

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Complicating matters is the repeatedly unstable condition of his sickly daughter -- who had undergone a very dangerous & difficult heart transplant surgery that required a very rare type of "organ donor match" in order for the surgical procedure to have even the slightest chances of success (a "MacGuffin" referred to in the movie as "Beta Alergic"). "Inspired," if you will, by a thread of ghostly apparitions and other related inexplicable sights & sensations, the specialist becomes convinced that the spirit connected to the latest skull in his possession will not rest quietly until it has been given its face back. During this process he gradually becomes convinced that his daughter had become the recipient of the heart of the skull/ghost in question and that the circumstances under which it was acquired may be highly (and frighteningly) suspect. Et cetera and so-forth.

So the real question becomes, Can I recommend this title for purchase? At it's currently listed price, I'd say no -- especially if you're so fed up with the "A-Horror" cliches of recent years that you'd feel insulted that a movie would make such deliberate use of them for no other purpose than simply to capitalize on that market. Should the price come down on it, however-- say, somewhere in the neighborhood of $14.95 & under --then I'd say go ahead and give it a look-see, it wouldn't hurt much of anything then, if you did.

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