Kigeki Hachurui (1968)

Genres - Comedy  |   Run Time - 91 min.  |   Countries - Japan  |   MPAA Rating - NR
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Review by Robert Firsching

This silly Shochiku studios sex comedy helps to explain the poor reputation which Japanese exploitation films -- particularly comedies -- garnered in the West during the 1960s. Kiyoshi Atsumi and horror-film regular Akira Nishimura (Kyuketsu Dokurosen) star as a couple of swingers who are wild about blondes, particularly a British gal named Mary (Terry Angel). Genre veteran Yukie Kagawa is left to whine because she's Japanese and doesn't have blonde hair. With proper direction, this could have been as important a statement on intracultural prejudice as School Daze. As it is, the cast and director Yusuke Watanabe almost seem to endorse the main characters' point of view, and whatever humor still remains to be derived from this witless and offensive "comedy" is purely of the camp variety.