Blur-free nudity (a first in mainstream Japanese film fare*) was the commercial come-on for this largely giddy look at a sex workers boutique, the ‘girls’ waiting for the next order to phone in at their small Tokyo office. A plump, jovial office manager handles appointments and makes sure special requests are honored (the right girl for the right job), billing rates set in advance and assignation locations cleared. The small staff (six young women/one young man) on hand (or on-call) to fill any & all requests. We largely stick with two of the girls: Dominatrix Sawa Suzuki (treating her work like acting opportunities; whipping, piercing, turning her clients into literal bootlickers), while less kinky call-girl Reiko Kataoka sticks to the basics. Meet-ups so frank (bouncy fucks or rock-‘em/sock-'em pain-for-pleasure fetish), it plays with a comic edge. Advertent? Or are we just self-distancing? Elsewise, personal life filters in (love & marriage), climaxing in a theatrical orgasm, a play put on by an amateur company the staff has joined, supported by the mob who also seem to work as protectors. The show an all hands on deck production; immediately followed by a swingin’ first-night/backstage cast party. With a script co-written by famed Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki (his full-frontal nude shots pop up thru the film), and pacey, colorful direction from the prolific Banmei Takahashi, the film leaves no pornographic aftertaste. Indeed, no aftertaste of any kind,
ATTENTION MUST BE PAID: *No blurring for the men, either, but none needed as they remain discretely covered by fundoshi, traditional Japanese male underwear.
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