Female Teacher: In Front Of the Students (1982) (DVD Review)
Directed By: Yasurou Uegaki
Starring: Rushia Santo, Toru Nakane, Toshiyuki Kitami
Rated: UR/Region: 1/1X78/Number of disc: 1
Available from Impulse Pictures
The lovely Reiko has taken a new teaching job at a creepy old high school. She is an extremely attractive woman and the young students in her class have fallen for her. One night, after tennis practice, she is brutally assaulted in the locker room shower by a man with a stocking over his face. Left on the floor naked and in shock, she discovers a single puzzle piece left behind by the crazed man. A few days later, a pair of students enact a perverted sexual revenge on Reiko for kicking someone off the tennis team. Could one of these students be the man who brutalized her in the locker room? Who owns the strange puzzle piece? As the mystery unfolds, Reiko must come to terms with her own sexual urges and fate.
In the long line of these Nikkatsu films I have seen from Impulse Pictures, a few things have always remained each time with each film. That would be that you know going in you’ll see a great transfer and you also know you are going to see some weird sexually driven stories. Here with the latest installment of Female Teacher, I think we may have a story that not only pushes boundaries, but might drive feminist crazy with the wild plot developments as we basically see this teacher get raped throughout the film and you never see her reaction to this coming.
I’m not a fan of rape and really who is, but this film did capture my attention and hold it. And it didn’t do that based off the fact we have a hot naked women on the screen alone, this is a really interesting plot. You never really know where it will lead and what wild and crazy thing will happen next, but that is how I like my movies. I like films that pack great acting, crazy plots, and unpredictability. This movie has all of that and for that I highly recommend this latest Nikkatsu film from Impulse Pictures. Let us all think Don May and the guys at Synapse for bringing these films to all of our attention.
– Newly Translated Removable English Subtitles
– Original Theatrical Trailer
– Liner Notes from Japanese Film Scholar Jasper Sharp
