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

A lovely young lady goes from marriage to cliff jump suicides edge after thugs break into her home and rape her on her wedding night. Unable to deal with the shame her husband kicks her out (an honour thing I guess though it seems like a straightforward dick move to me), and just as all seems lost a friendly abbot recruits her to a convent. Here she settles in to a quiet life of worship and contemplation, the rest of the film playing out as a restrained and respectful treatment of convent life and the religious way. I'm yanking your chain of course, as one might expect from the title this is pinku territory. What one might not expect is how fun the film is and not just fun in a "laugh at all the degradation and weirdness" way, but intentionally amusing. Director Koyu Ohara adopts an approach to this nunsploitation film that owes more to Bunuel (albeit a rather perverse Bunuel) than it does the likes of Flavia the Heretic, he is critical, but more concerned with oddball comedy than he is grim shock tactics. The convent our heroine finds herself in is something of a hotbed for lust and corruption, it has made a pretty poor job of withdrawing from secular concerns and perversions. We get cruciform poses during sex, bread masturbation alongside prayer, money woes and a gangster in hiding and much of it is in a spirit of good fun. The women are beautiful (leading lady Yuki Nohira is a particular delight) and there's a fair amount of nudity, a little abuse but nothing too elaborate, and the film zips along nicely. Tensions do build though, as various higher ups prove to be pretty slimy customers and everything builds to a completely bonkers and pretty darned funny climax. As with the other pinkus that I've seen so far, this one didn't completely hold my attention, it is never boring but my mind did wander and I expect it wasn't supposed to, I don't whether its a problem with the film or just me but it is worth saying. On the other hand, this is probably the most fun that I've had with the genre so far and even the most accomplished I've seen. Ohara directs with real vision, vision that goes beyond twisted characters and crackpot sleaze. Memorable images are well spread throughout, and he gives the convent a clean, reverent look that contrasts very well with the shenanigans within. There's a great sense of hustle bustle where needed as well, he has a good handle on action when it gets more kinetic. The proof of his skill comes I think at a point where the dreaded Japanese beaver blockers appear and are irritating more for ruining the symmetry of the shot than the eroticism. Nothing more to say really, but if you dig this kind of cinema give this one a look pronto, its quite a winner.

Not as one might assume from the title, a bondage movie, but even more strangely, a Japanese nunsploitation. Told gleefully, as if by Bunuel, this torrid little saga begins with a wedding. But be not mislead, before the marriage can be consummated, baddies break in and tie up Mr, forcing him to watch the vigorous rape of Mrs (who doesn't seem too put out). She's upset afterwards though because her man prevents her from phoning the police lest his reputation be destroyed, and casts her out the house. Needless to say she ends up in a convent getting more of the same. Lots of sex, some bondage and whippings but best of all a glorious orgiastic climax with the star of the show taken from behind dressed as a lamb by a business man in a mask.

In terms of "classic" exploitation cinema, and specifically in regards to the pinku and nunsploit genres - WET AND ROPE is not the "best of the best" (a spot that I still hold for SCHOOL OF THE HOLY BEAST) - but this film does try pretty damn hard. A ridiculously fun and bizarre entry in a fun and bizarre genre - WET AND ROPE is definitely one of the more entertaining pinku (or any genre for that matter) films I've seen in a while.A young woman is raped in front of her husband by a group of thugs on her wedding night. Her husband kicks her to the curb, stating that his "honor has been ruined" (a trend I see often amongst rape-victims in these films...), so the new wife decides to commit suicide. She is stopped right before plunging off a cliff to her demise by a seemingly kind priest who says she can join his nunnery and God will heal all. Of course, once inside, the nunnery is filled with lesbionic, hot-dog-bun-f!cking nymphos who want nothing more than to screw guys and go to the "Diskotek" in full nun regalia (?!?!). Add in some strange side characters and plots, including a toilet bowl licking, Igor-like "assistant", an overly horny priest and abbess, a man on the run from a robbery, some clueless cops, and the absolute best part - the festival of St. Animal (???) where well-paying businessman come to dress up in Negro masks and screw all the nuns, while one lucky "winner" gets to bone one DRESSED AS A SHEEP (???!!!????!!!!). For real - I couldn't make this sh!t up if I tried...I honestly find it hard to believe that the Japanese could cram so much material into 65 (or so) minute films. It's another reason I love the pinku genre so much - lots of craziness condensed into a manageable time-frame, so you rarely have a chance to be bored. Finer points like character development and continuity may end up lost in the shuffle - but who watches exploit films for that stuff anyway? WET AND ROPE isn't the best pinku or nunsploit film out there, but it is an infectiously fun entry for fans of either genre, or for anyone looking for something deliriously different...8/10

After being brutally raped,Mikki attempts to commit suicide.A friendly priest talks her out of it and she decides to become a nun.Once inside the convent,she becomes again a victim of sexual abuse."Wet and Rope" by Koyu Ohara is a truly fantastic piece of sleaze.It's not as beautiful and visually stunning as Norifumi Suzuki's exploitation classic "School of the Holy Beast",but certainly offers everything a nunsploitation fan could want-beautiful and often nude women,a perverse priest,a nunnery full of lesbians and wickedly deviant finale.The acting is pretty good and the main actress Yuki Nokihara has a great body and beautiful eyes.A must-see for fans of nunsploitation sub-genre or exploitation cinema in general.8 out of 10.Highly recommended.