The best movie ever made in which a girl gets fucked by a floating disembodied finger cloned from George W. Bush. Leave it to the Japanese to come up with the funniest and most surreal softcore film of the decade.
Sachiko Hanai (Emi Kuroda) is a call girl who turns into a super-genius after she innocently wanders into the middle of a fight between North Korean and Arab spies and gets shot in the head. The bullet hit her brain just right and now she can read books in three minutes, solve complex math problems, and discuss Noam Chomsky and Descartes at the drop of a hat in between having sex with every man she meets. Her big problem: Somehow she walked off with the little lipstick-shaped canister that belongs to one of the spies and they want it back. It contains George Bush’s cloned finger, which is needed to control the fingerprint-activated US nuclear arsenal. The finger has a mind (and a sex drive) of its own, though.
Director Meike Mitsuru and writer Nakano Takao made this during the first year of the Iraq war and they’re not too pleased with the USA. Some writers leap to praise this film’s political content (and philosophical references), but it’s actually pretty lightweight. Its intellectual worth falls somewhere between a Dead Kennedys song and a Tom Tomorrow strip. It’s got loads of sleaze, sex, and weird humor going for it though, and that’s enough for me.
This started out as an hour-long “pink film” (the Japanese nickname for their homegrown softcore sex flicks) called Horny Home Tutor: Teacher’s Love Juice, but it earned great reviews so the producers got Mitsuru to expand it to ninety minutes for the international market. It would go on to play big festivals and see positive notices from the likes of The New York Times.