Rape! (1976)

For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Actually, contrary to the somewhat surprising majority opinion here, I thought this film was awful, and then some. I watched it right the way through without subtitles, and it loses nothing in translation. The heroine was a cute chick, and I can't see anything culturally significant, didactic, tasteful or humorous about seeing her repeatedly violated. This film must surely be a favourite of the lunatic fringe feminazis because of the way it portrays men as misogynistic sexual psychopaths. Its only redeeming feature is that she killed the serial rapist at the end, but the film has no message except what, rape and gratuitous sexual violence is a turn on? In the underbelly of Japan maybe, but not in my dystopia.

Okay, so I'm going into a movie that's simply called "Rape!". Even though the title makes the movie worth watching alone, I've heard the movie is a real good entry into the pinku realm, and it is. I've also just learned that this was the first part to a quadrilogy, with Assault! Jack the Ripper, a better movie, being part of that quadrilogy. So there ya go!Well, this movie focuses on a really cute chick who gets raped and then realizes that she enjoys sex/rape. The movie tackles issues like a rapist can only enjoy the rape if the girl is hating it. Or that a girl who was sexually repressed, is now only turned on by being raped. Rape! is a crazy rape themed movie, that is pretty damn entertaining. If you're into this genre, I would say this is a must see. 8 outta 10

Yasuharu Hasebe's "Rape!" features Natsuko Yashiro as a young and virginal librarian,who is savagely raped in an elevator by Kenzo Kenie.She quickly becomes addicted to rough sex as she tries to track down her rapist...Typically twisted Japanese pinku eiga rape flick that offers tons of sleazy rape and some nasty violence."Rape!" certainly packs a punch,but it's not as grimly effective and disturbing as "Assault!Jack the Ripper" or "Rape!13th Hour".The film is well-acted and the production values are surprisingly high.So if you are a fan of this type of material you can't go wrong with "Rape!".However there are nastier examples of pinku genre out there for example "Captured for Sex 2",which I reviewed some time ago or ultra-perverse "All Women Are Whores".

This is a surprisingly beautiful and erotic film. The Japanese definitely have a thing for rape and it shows. It's not really at all exploitative, with a compelling subtext about sexual identity and erotic attraction. The perfect first date movie.