Nun's Diary: Confession (1979)

Don't Believe the Hype

Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

8/10 for pure sleaze.I'm not sure why it's called Wet & Rope, it should be called Nuns Need Lovin' Too. Or Disco Nuns. Maybe the sleaziest nunsplotation flick I've seen yet. I loved it! It's only 70 minutes long, and it has so much sleaze packed into it. Spoilers (lol) ahead. Where to begin… --the main character gets raped on her wedding night in front of her new husband. The rapist leaves, and the husband throws her out. So she becomes a nun.--Japanese nuns wear very large knickers.--nuns like going to the discotheque, picking up two guys and doing them at the same time.--the subtitle translator went to the Ralph Wiggum school of English. They actually had "unpossible" as a word.--nuns seem to enjoy bread for other purposes then to eat.--if a guy rapes a nun in front of another nun, it seems to be allowed in Japan.--two nuns dry hump and diddle each other while a priest watches them and polishes his silverware. And I actually mean polishing silverware. Not a euphemism.--The nuns throw a party for something called St. Animals Celebration (I know my Catholicism is a little rusty, but St. Animal?), where business men come and pay to see who gets to rape a nun dressed as a sheep on the alter. Meanwhile all the other business men orgy out with the other nuns.--our main character sees her rapist (the first one that is, from her wedding night), but doesn't get any form of revenge.--at no point is the Devil or a demon part of the movie.Now it's possible that not all nuns everywhere are into this type of behavior, but if I learned one thing from this movie, it's that Japanese nuns like getting raped.

I have to give Koyu Ohara's 'Wet Rope Confession' a high rating because among other things, it is an utterly unique and fascinating viewing experience. Here is one of the oddest 'pink' films of all time, concerning a beautiful young woman who joins a bizarre convent after being raped on her wedding night, by a gang of thugs. Loaded with surreal imagery and filmed with great style, director Koyu O'Hara utilizes garish colors especially well, and some scenes are truly gorgeous. Other scenes are quite indescribable, such as when the young woman Miki, and a fellow nun enter a disco in the middle of the afternoon and are picked up by some shady looking characters. Some scoff at the bizarre imagery here, but I believe everything has it's meaning. Symbolism is in fact the dominating factor in this one. The ending is especially bizarre, but somehow extremely sweet and romantic at the same time, as actress Yuki Nohira possesses a rare quality of appearing very sexual and also totally naive and innocent at the same time. The acting, as in most of the Japan 'pink' films of this time, is extremely good. The film-makers touch on a very obscure but potent erotic nerve by showing nuns in sexual situations, while appearing to enjoy the experience while simultaneously being disturbed by what they are doing. Fans of cult cinema should have a very special appreciation for these films, for before the advent of DVD productions like 'Wet Rope' were absolutely unheard of outside of their native land. The 1970's were truly a great time for underground cinema, and 'Wet Rope Confession' is a nice example of what that decade had to offer. See this mysterious and beautiful film!

Nunsploitation would seem to be more of a European thing, but the Japanese decided to have a go too, and Wet and Rope is one of the results. Asian cinema is often remarked upon for its bizarreness, and after having seen this film; I've got to say that isn't surprising...in the least! Quite what the hell the point of this film is, is anyone's guess, as all the sleazy elements on display don't mean a thing to one another, thus making the film merely a collection of oddities, united one very thin plot line. The story (if you can even call it that) follows a young woman who tries to commit suicide after being thrown out by her husband. After being saved by a priest, she is recruited into his convent...where all the nuns are more pervy than your average whore! The film features a lot of sex, some of it featuring things like masks, bread rolls and (wait for it) sheep costumes! I actually can't believe there was a time when I found lesbian sex out of the ordinary...it's the norm in films like these! It really is hard to take this film seriously, but it's not a complete dead loss as watching the events unfold is often very funny, and fans of wayward cinema are likely to get a kick out of it. Overall, I can't say that this is a favourite of mine...but it's just about worth seeing.

Rarely ever laughed as much or as loud than with "Wet Rope Confession"; a nunsploitation movie coming from Japan, a country where hardly even live Catholic people to begin with! This film simply needs to be seen in order to be believed, as it is cheap, totally incoherent and featuring the most absurd situations imaginable! The movie opens very interesting, though, with classy images of a nurse and doctor on their wedding day. When the girl gets raped by burglars on the same day, the husband banishes her from his life. Saving her from committing suicide by a narrow margin, a seemly helpful priest convinces the girl to enter a convent as a nun, where God will surely forgive her sins. The ordinary nuns fill their days with lesbian games, an occasional whipping or escape into town to go go disco-dancing (truly an hilarious sight) but the real perverts are the priest and abbess who rent out their nuns as sex-toys to rich business men. "Wet Rope Confession" never really gets shocking or sadistic and even the most uncut version doesn't feature that much nudity. It's just funny and trashy because the nuns dress up like sheep and are forced to walk in hurdles etc... This film is entertaining mainly because of its ineptness! For example, near the end of the story, the woman comes face to face again with the rapist who destroyed her life and you expect some sort of revenge, only...it doesn't happen!