Greedy Housewives

When sexually-jaded young housewife Aya is rudely awakened from her sleep by the rather rough and ready advances of her horny husband, she is forced into reminding him that a wedding ring doesn’t give carte blanche to rape one’s wife and that there is a world of difference between love and sex. To prove her point, she heads off to the city with her silicon-enhanced friend Kei for a rendez-vous with two young men arranged over the internet, photographing the evidence on her mobile phone and mailing it back to her remorseful spouse. Kei later introduces Aya to a sex counsellor with the aim of helping her overcome her sexual problems with her husband, although his advice is perhaps not entirely what one might expect. One of the many pink films by the ultra-prolific Sachi Hamano, the industry’s longest-serving woman director (here directing under the pseudonym of Chise Matoba). Though shooting from a woman’s perspective, if anything, the approach is lewder, ruder and a good deal more to the point than many of the films of her male contemporaries, with the women most definitely staying on top of the events that befall them.