Molester's Train: Nasty Behavior
Molester's Train: Nasty Behavior aka Molester's Train: Dirty Behavior and Birthday is a 1993 Japanese pink film directed by Hisayasu Satō under the pseudonym Hisakazu Hata as part of the Molester's Train series. Future director, Shinji Imaoka worked on the project as assistant director, and prolific screenwriter Kyōko Godai wrote the film. It was named the second best pink film release of the year at the annual Pink Grand Prix.
Synopsis
After the loss of her boyfriend, a young woman plans to blow herself up with a stick of dynamite on her 20th birthday. On the subway, she meets a young man who films women while molesting them. The two become romantically involved.Cast
- Yumika Hayashi
- Koichi Imaizumi
- Kiyomi Ito
- Yuri Ishihara
- Hiroyuki Kawasaki
Background
Future Academy Award-winner Yōjirō Takita started the long-running Molester's Train series at Shintōhō Eiga. The original series ran for twelve episodes between 1982 and 1985 and was in a light-comic vein similar to early U.S. nudie-cuties such as Russ Meyer's The Immoral Mr. Teas. The popularity of the "Molester" theme led other pink film studios to create their own versions of the series. When they decided to resurrect the series in 1993, Shintōhō Eiga chose to go in an entirely different direction by hiring controversial, cult-film director Hisayasu Satō to helm the project.Critical appraisal
Allmovie writes that, working within Shintōhō Eiga's Molester's Train series format, Molester's Train: Nasty Behavior is, "much tamer thanIn their Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films, the Weissers note that in Molester's Train: Nasty Behavior, Satō shows none of his characteristic cinematic brutality. They write of his comparatively tamer films with Godai, "Some praise Sato for the change, while other lose interest in his career". Nevertheless, Jasper Sharp writes that Satō's film still has an austere tone which is completely different in style from Yōjirō Takita's light-hearted Molester Train films. Sharp notes that Molester's Train: Nasty Behavior exhibits many of Satō's usual interests, including a sequence employing a "disorienting labyrinth of gazes" involving the young male molester, his films, his victim on the train, another molester's victim, and the audience. The audience is given little help in how to interpret the proceedings. "Who do we identify with," Sharp asks, "molester, molested or cameraman, or do we remain just a detached observer?"