For an accurate appreciation of UNIFORM VIRGIN - THE PREY, it is important to dispense with the usual adjectives from other reviewers -- "hazy," "typically mean," "an endurance test," "not for the fainthearted." True, those words apply in a sense but don't capture the film's unique grotesque-ness. Also, this movie fits into a corner that is atypical for Hisayasu Sato: the pixelated Japanese porn genre. UNFORM VIRGIN features a hulking high school student who attends math class and is humiliated by the teacher. He sneaks off to the school's media room and engages in a series of hardcore fantasies of stalking, attacking, and apparently killing some of his classmates. In one of his fantasies, the shaken victim responds by committing suicide. Throughout, this boy mumble obscenities while recording the atrocities on a portable video camera. These psychotic episodes are broken up with vignettes of his victims talking to (Sato's) camera about themselves. The most outrageous and interesting of these attack scenes bookend the movie -- an art student covered in various colored paints as he molests her, and the penultimate sequence of his attack on a schoolgirl in public, in broad daylight, while shocked onlookers, who are obviously not extras in the film, back away. Most interesting is a (staged?) moment in which one of the onlookers walks blithely past the near-rape of the schoolgirl. It is in scenes like this that Sato excels, bridging reality and fantasy in a fascinating cinematic moment.
2 Reviews
Interesting from a voyeur perspective
Musicianmagic16 December 2023
A lot of sex, not a lot of story. The main character was (deservingly) made a fool of in his high school class. He leaves the class then imagines each of his classmates and teacher in separate stories. Each separate story begins with the classmate introducing themselves briefly and then it develops to a sex scene usually including rope bondage with the sex which definitely qualifies as rape or assault. In one case an enema is included.
Be aware that it "Appears" that much of the sex may be unsimulated and there is more nudity than previous pink films. "Appears" because there is a heavy mosaic (blurring) over any genitals and action so you can't actually see anything! In Japan in 1986 you couldn't even show a single pubic hair and genitals still in 2023 need to be fogged/blurred although at a much lesser amount than in 1986.
There are more sex scenes than in most pink films. I didn't find most here that exciting except to see what happens next. It's the What's Next that kept my interest throughout.
If you aren't interested in the sex scenes or bothered by scenes of violence towards a woman then you won't want to watch. But if that specifically is what interests you then you'll enjoy this movie.
Be aware that it "Appears" that much of the sex may be unsimulated and there is more nudity than previous pink films. "Appears" because there is a heavy mosaic (blurring) over any genitals and action so you can't actually see anything! In Japan in 1986 you couldn't even show a single pubic hair and genitals still in 2023 need to be fogged/blurred although at a much lesser amount than in 1986.
There are more sex scenes than in most pink films. I didn't find most here that exciting except to see what happens next. It's the What's Next that kept my interest throughout.
If you aren't interested in the sex scenes or bothered by scenes of violence towards a woman then you won't want to watch. But if that specifically is what interests you then you'll enjoy this movie.
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