So this is a “Romanporno” which sounds sleazy and is, but I was curious about this line of Nikkatsu movies from the name and the odd place in Japanese cinema history, and I think I approached it with at least a little more trepidation than it really warrants – particularly realizing that although “Romanporno” sounds kind of like “Roman porno” which sounds somehow extra debaucherous in a Caligula sort of way, it’s Roman as in like, pronounced as you would in German – signifying Romance, that kind of thing. And I think that shows here, since while yes, it’s a salacious movie with lots of sex and nudity, tone-wise it feels like the dial is turned up a few steps on romance and people being allured by each other. It reminds me most, probably, of a pulp novel. And I ended up actually liking it! Some bits are quite stylish, and a strength of the movie in being a risque pulpy story is that it ends up being the kind of story where it gets away with being way gayer than it otherwise would, by having the bisexual seductress be the villain and all of it happen with the excuse of being a sleazy exploitation movie. Even though in being the villain, a lot of that character’s actions aren’t consensual, you nevertheless I think come away from the movie being a little entranced along with the hapless straight couple protagonist at this heady world of lesbian orgies etc. It doesn’t really read to me like a movie where the happy ending for the characters is they go back to being a boring straight couple. Anyway – kinda neat and better than I feared. I have no idea if that applies to any of the others in the line, especially the ones that seem significantly more violence-focused than this. I believe I watched this without subtitles and it went fine.