Alisa escapes her obsessed and incestuous father by jumping into the sea and washing up on the beach and heads into the city to start her life from the beginning.Harumi lives with her uncaring husband and perverse mother-in-law but leaves to find the love and affection she isn't getting at home.By fate-and some bizarre events-the two ladies meet and hope to find what they are looking for together."Rafureisha" is a more light-hearted pinku flick from the director of "Hitozuma Collector","Lolita Vibrator Torture" and "Naked Blood".There is rape,incest and plenty of sex and nudity plus some truly surreal moments including an adult baby being attacked with a chainsaw.Overall if you are a fan of clinical works of Sato give this one a look-I prefer more darker and disturbing movies by this infamous Japanese Cronenberg.7 out of 10.
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a really good feel
christopher-underwood23 July 2009
I loved this. Of course it is quite bizarre as one would expect and has lots of sex but it is also always good to look at and if not laugh out loud funny does have a really good feel to it that brings more than a smile or two. Some very erotic scenes early on as a girl's mother in law talks dirty and the pair get into a right steamed up sexy state while the husband, bulged crotch in the hand's of his mother, just carries on eating. He even breaks off and decides to go to bed early whilst the two girls are gasping in their mutual wetness. There is much more of this, including cross dressing, adult baby (chased by chainsaw wielding lovely) a gang bang, incest, girl on girl and probably more that have slipped my mind. Hard to believe that this is all done in such a charming way but then when wasn't there something hard to believe in a good old Japanese pink?
Extremely Bizarre, Surreal, Funny, And Perverse Pinku Film From Hisayasu Sato...
EVOL66627 November 2006
Warning: Spoilers
Notorious pinku director, Hisayasu Sato, never ceases to amaze me with the high-caliber of films and amount of "vision" that he incorporates into what are basically soft-core sex films. I'm a huge pinku fan, and in a genre that has a lot of similar films, Sato's works continually stand out as original, interesting, and often more perverse than many other genre entries. This is definitely true with RAFURESHIA. A completely strange film that I feel HAD to be a major influence on Takashi Miike's VISITOR Q, RAFURESHIA is a black-comedy that focuses on some strange characters and their bizarre family-dynamics.
Several characters lives converge on a strange and fateful night. A man and his daughter (who share a completely unwholesome relationship...) who live on an isolated island are separated when the daughter becomes curious about the outside world. Another man, his wife, and his mother (who ALL share some strange relationships...) find that none of them are quite who they seem to be. When these two families and their secret lives inadvertently collide - it makes for some strange happenings. Throw in a Yakuza member, some friendly but horny bums, a tranny hooker, and a few other random characters, and RAFURESHIA becomes an all-out free-for-all of strangeness...
A great and truly funny film with some seriously demented moments, RAFURESHIA will be of interest to pinku fans and those that enjoy bizarre exploitation cinema. Again, very similar to VISITOR Q in tone, if not necessarily content - fans of that film will probably enjoy this one as well. Sato always proves to be about the most interesting director in the pinku realm, eschewing most of the common genre elements for more bizarre and interesting story lines. RAFURESHIA is much "lighter" in tone than some of Sato's other, more nihilistic and "cold" works - but I think he pulled this one off perfectly. Definitely worth a look...8.5/10
Several characters lives converge on a strange and fateful night. A man and his daughter (who share a completely unwholesome relationship...) who live on an isolated island are separated when the daughter becomes curious about the outside world. Another man, his wife, and his mother (who ALL share some strange relationships...) find that none of them are quite who they seem to be. When these two families and their secret lives inadvertently collide - it makes for some strange happenings. Throw in a Yakuza member, some friendly but horny bums, a tranny hooker, and a few other random characters, and RAFURESHIA becomes an all-out free-for-all of strangeness...
A great and truly funny film with some seriously demented moments, RAFURESHIA will be of interest to pinku fans and those that enjoy bizarre exploitation cinema. Again, very similar to VISITOR Q in tone, if not necessarily content - fans of that film will probably enjoy this one as well. Sato always proves to be about the most interesting director in the pinku realm, eschewing most of the common genre elements for more bizarre and interesting story lines. RAFURESHIA is much "lighter" in tone than some of Sato's other, more nihilistic and "cold" works - but I think he pulled this one off perfectly. Definitely worth a look...8.5/10
Marginally perverted Sato flick with plenty on its mind
fertilecelluloid22 March 2007
Warning: Spoilers
Hisayasu Sato's "Rafureshia" is a fascinating, marginally perverted pink flick made with the director's trademark intelligence and blanket refusal to conform to standard pink film conventions. A young woman who is engaged in an incestuous relationship with her father decides to visit "the other side of the sea". Her journey involves being gently raped by three street loonies who think she's a mermaid, and indulging in a nicely presented lesbian relationship with a sensuous but troubled older woman. A converging story focuses on the older woman who is being pressured by her mother-in-law to get pregnant. The woman's son appears to be more interested in the woman who carried him as a child than the woman who could carry his own child. Sato breaks with tradition here by staging some of his twisted drama on exterior locations rather than in cramped, clinical interiors. The film is well shot,features subjects such as infantilism, lesbianism, incest, rape and dysfunctional family units, and is quite erotic when it opts not to be grotesque. Sato always has something on his mind, and this is certainly one of his most interesting efforts.
If you loved Visitor Q, then you should love this too.
BA_Harrison18 December 2014
Convinced that there must be more to life than satisfying her obsessive father's incestuous urges, pretty Alisa (Kinako) leaves their island and swims for the mainland; meanwhile, housewife Harumi (Yumi Yoshiyuki) is being badgered by her mother-in-law (Kiyomi Ito) to get pregnant, but is receiving such little attention in the bedroom from her husband Yoshio (Kouichi Imaizumi) that she seeks her thrills elsewhere. As the womens' search for happiness progresses, their lives gradually become inextricably entwined.
Although lighter in tone than many a Pinku movie, and just a little more surreal, Hisayasu Sato's Rafureshia is still extremely twisted stuff, chock full of sexual deviancy—in other words, perfect entertainment for those who enjoy their viewing material both arousing and amazingly weird; the fact that this film was likely the inspiration for Takashi Miike's equally perverse Visitor Q only qualifies it further as an essential slice of Japanese craziness.
From its opening scene, in which dear old daddy does Alisa on the dining room table, to the rather amusing ending, this unbelievable Pinku treat delivers the kind of outrageous naughtiness that could only come from Japan. The demented action includes such jaw dropping sights as Yoshio being pleasured by his mother while Harumi sees to herself, a trio of sex-mad down and outs getting extremely lucky, a chainsaw wielding Alisa chasing an adult baby (in the brothel run by Harumi's mother-in-law!!!), some hot 'scissor-sister' action, and a tranny hooker accosting Yoshio in a park. As is customary with such fare, there's loads of female nudity, the occasional instance of optical fogging, and loads of frantic close-up frottaging over silky white pantie gussets.
Although lighter in tone than many a Pinku movie, and just a little more surreal, Hisayasu Sato's Rafureshia is still extremely twisted stuff, chock full of sexual deviancy—in other words, perfect entertainment for those who enjoy their viewing material both arousing and amazingly weird; the fact that this film was likely the inspiration for Takashi Miike's equally perverse Visitor Q only qualifies it further as an essential slice of Japanese craziness.
From its opening scene, in which dear old daddy does Alisa on the dining room table, to the rather amusing ending, this unbelievable Pinku treat delivers the kind of outrageous naughtiness that could only come from Japan. The demented action includes such jaw dropping sights as Yoshio being pleasured by his mother while Harumi sees to herself, a trio of sex-mad down and outs getting extremely lucky, a chainsaw wielding Alisa chasing an adult baby (in the brothel run by Harumi's mother-in-law!!!), some hot 'scissor-sister' action, and a tranny hooker accosting Yoshio in a park. As is customary with such fare, there's loads of female nudity, the occasional instance of optical fogging, and loads of frantic close-up frottaging over silky white pantie gussets.
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