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The Glamorous Life Of Sachiko Hanai

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The Glamorous Life Of Sachiko Hanai (2007)

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Reviews Counted: 20 Fresh: 6  Rotten:14 Average Rating: 4.5/10
 
Consensus: Manages to turn girl power into a misogynistic raunchfest. This gratuitous film somehow takes the idea of girl power and turns it into a misogynistic raunchfest. more
 
Rated: Not Rated
Runtime: 90 mins
Theatrical Release: Apr 13, 2007 Limited
Synopsis:
An innocent call girl gets mixed up in an International incident in Mitsuru Meike's THE GLAMOROUS LIFE OF SACHIKO HANAI. Sachiko gets hit by a stray bullet after an argument breaks out in front of her while she's waiting for one of her coworkers from the local sex club. When Sachiko wakes up the... [More]
An innocent call girl gets mixed up in an International incident in Mitsuru Meike's THE GLAMOROUS LIFE OF SACHIKO HANAI. Sachiko gets hit by a stray bullet after an argument breaks out in front of her while she's waiting for one of her coworkers from the local sex club. When Sachiko wakes up the next day she dislodges the bullet and discovers a metal canister in her pocket. Suddenly a whole new world awakens before Sachiko's eyes, and she's soon speaking in foreign languages and solving complex problems. But the human finger in the canister, which belongs to a former American president, will change both Sachiko's world and the fate of the human race. [Less]

Genre: Comedies

Starring: Kyoko Hayami, Yukijiro Hotaru, Takeshi Ito, Tetsuake Matsue

Director: Mitsuru Meike
Screenwriter: Takao Nakano
Producer: Nakato Kinukawa
Composer: Taro Kataoka

DVD Info

Release:

May 27, 2007

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1

Additional Release Material:

  • Bonus Short - THE ADVENTURE OF SACHIKO HANI
  • Trailers - 1. U.S. Theatrical Trailer
  • 2. Original Japanese Trailer

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A flimsy plot about Korean spies leads to a climactic sight gag involving an enhanced version of George W. Bush's forefinger, but it's all window dressing for the main attraction: lots of bouncing T & A.

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09/14/07 10:59 PM
Andrea Gronvall
Chicago Reader
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The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai is far less silly than it thinks it is. The upbeat vibe of super-female power misfires with a gratuitous rape scene.

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07/23/07 05:59 PM
Bill Stamets
Chicago Sun-Times
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... a weird hybrid in the vein of the 1974 American sex pic Flesh Gordon, but with a more modern, goosed-up style.

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07/15/07 06:47 PM
Andy Klein
Los Angeles CityBeat
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Conceptually outlandish but routinely executed, this comic exploration of macho, control-freaky power struggles the world over remains skin-deep.

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07/05/07 03:43 PM
Michael Phillips
Chicago Tribune
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My head wants to explode at the woman-hating hideousness of this.

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06/22/07 03:15 AM
MaryAnn Johanson
Flick Filosopher
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Recklessly fun, explosively colorful and intensely, abusively edited.

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06/07/07 03:15 AM
Jason Ferguson
Orlando Weekly
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Sachiko Hanai is pretty much just raunch, much like the stuff that insinuates itself onto late-night premium channel programming. And which gets old fast.

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06/01/07 03:53 PM
Tom Keogh
Seattle Times
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More entertaining for its impudence than its execution...

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05/31/07 04:53 PM
Sean Axmaker
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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This is one off-the-wall sex comedy. It is even occasionally actually funny in its offbeat fashion, but it is essentially stupid and the forays into sexual violence are downright ugly.

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05/05/07 05:15 AM
Pam Grady
Reel.com
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Combines soft-core porn with a fantastical sci-fi plot.

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04/30/07 03:15 AM
Frank Scheck
Hollywood Reporter
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An apocalyptic political satire.

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04/25/07 11:10 PM
Aaron Hillis
Village Voice
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The film is nothing more than a rapidly tiresome gag that barely seems to understand the knotty philosophical problems being posited by its lusty fembot heroine.

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04/23/07 08:39 AM
Chris Barsanti
Film Journal International
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An obscene, elaborate joke at the expense of the Bush Administration.... It's the trashy midnight weird-out that Grindhouse could have been.

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04/17/07 01:29 PM
Jurgen Fauth
About.com
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Is this sleaze dressed up as art, or vice-versa? As more and more daring directors opt to push the envelope with similar conversation-provoking pictures, we'll have to let the debate about what could be an emerging cinematic trend continue.

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04/16/07 08:59 AM
Kam Williams
Denver Urban Spectrum
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It’s a film to be experienced more than judged and is only recommended for those with adventurous tastes. At the very least, I doubt you'll be bored.

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04/14/07 04:39 AM
Janos Gereben
Entertainment Insiders
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As befits the form, enjoyment of this film will depend almost entirely on one’s appreciation of the substantial anatomical charms of its lead actress.

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04/14/07 04:39 AM
Joshua Land
Time Out New York
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Just don't mistake it for something classier.

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04/14/07 04:39 AM
Scott Tobias
Onion AV Club
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The overripe morsel who gets batted around in the Japanese absurdithon The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai looks like she was conjured up by a teenage boy in dangerous hormonal overdrive.

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04/13/07 03:08 PM
Manohla Dargis
New York Times
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Nothing short of confounding, the film seems to exist in an uneasy limbo between avant-garde brilliance and completely inane abrasiveness.

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04/13/07 07:59 AM
Rob Humanick
Slant Magazine
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Uninspired staging and pacing manage the near-impossible feat of rendering such lunatic concepts dull.

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04/10/07 04:12 PM
Dennis Harvey
Variety
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