Angel Guts 2 (1979)

AKA: Angel Guts: Red Classroom
Directed by: Chusei Sone
Starring: Keizo Kanie (Muraki), Yuuki Mizuhara (Nami)
Country: Japan; Effed Up Asian Films
Language: Japanese (Eng Subs); Effed Up Japanese Cinema
Runtime: 01:18:33
Genres: Rape-Women, Porno-Themed, Pissing scene, Misery

Plot – Spoilers:
tl;dr A movie about self-loathing.

Nami once acted in a rape porno and the rape might have been real. A few years later, she works as a receptionist at a ‘love hotel’. Muraki meanwhile, is the owner of a porn production studio and also directs some of its more kinky features. He considers himself an artist and is bored of his work and the easily-available women, particularly one cheating lady who visits him once a week often forcing him to fuck her.

Fate ensures that Nami and Muraki’s paths cross and he’s shaken when he sees her because he’s always been infatuated with her ever since he watched her porno. But Nami by now has been so traumatized by her experience and the fact that ever so often, men recognize her and want a piece of her.

Two flawed doomed characters – can they flock together?

This is a very stylish movie for what should have been just another Japanese pink film. Some of the efforts to obscure the actors’ genitalia are creative, and the shots surprisingly metaphorical at times – for example, the final shot in the movie that encapsulates Nami’s self-hatred.