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Wikipedia article
is a 1983 Japanese film in Nikkatsu's 'Roman porno' series, directed by Shingo Yamashiro and starring Ai Saotome.
Synopsis
Innocent female doctor Mineko was seduced by Sachiko, an aggressive lesbian, in her younger days. Mineko begins dating a male coworker, and accepts an invitation to a party at the home of a transvestite patient. Sachiko comes out of Mineko's past, enraged with jealousy, and begins tormenting Mineko and her boyfriend.Weisser, p. 140.
Cast
* Ai Saotome: Mineko Kagami
* Sachiko It: Kotoe Hiratsuka
* Koichi Iwaki: Shari
* Hiroshi Nawa: Tar Iruka
* Kji Minakami: Mamoru Iruka
* Akiyoshi Fukae: Takehiko bayashi
* Yoshishige tsuka: Eiko Kanzaki
* Yoshishige tsuka: Akiko Kanzaki
* : Tommy
* Mitsu Senda: Jji
* Kotomi Aoki: Akane Minakawa
* Mariko Nishina: Hiromi
* Keiichi Sat: Mikami
* Ryji Katagiri: Abe
* Madoka Sawa: Julie
* Akira Takahashi: Keiji
* Hiromichi Nakahara: Movie star
Critical appraisal
'Female Cats' director Shingo Yamashiro was best known as an actor, having debuted in 1957. He appeared in the 'Battles Without Honor and Humanity' series, and one of his better-known appearance for Western audiences is in Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 'Sweet Home' (1989).Weisser, p. 180.
In his 'Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema', Jasper Sharp uses 'Female Cats' as an example of the range of themes possible in the 'Roman Porno' genre, calling it an Argento-esque thriller. In their 'Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films', the Weissers compliment Yamashiro's direction as the best thing about the film. They write that he, "goes the extra mile to compose many astonishingly good-looking sequences, punctuated by some creatively stylish camerawork." A lesbian shower sequence between Mineko and Sachiko is singled out for praise. The scene is shot from the shower faucet's point of view, through a spray of water. However they fault the film's unimaginative script and its "lurid plot".
Availability
'Female Cats' was released theatrically in Japan on December 23, 1983. It was released to home video in VHS format in Japan on March 16, 1984, and re-issued on June 22, 1990. It was released as part of the Nikkatsu Roman Porno Series of VHS releases on December 6, 1991. It was released on DVD in Japan on December 4, 1998, and re-released on DVD on June 23, 2006, as part of Geneon's fourth wave of Nikkatsu 'Roman porno' series. In this format it was issued in the 4-disc 'Roman Porno' series DVD Box, Vol. 1 on March 7, 2008. It is currently scheduled to be released in the USA on DVD May 7, 2013, under the title 'She Cat'.
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Category:1983 films
Category:1980s erotic thriller films
Category:1980s Japanese-language films
Category:Japanese LGBT-related films
Category:Lesbian-related films
Category:Japanese erotic thriller films
Category:Nikkatsu films
Category:Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Category:1983 LGBT-related films
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