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.
The Glamorous Life Of Sachiko Hanai (2007)
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Reviews Counted:20
Fresh:6
Rotten:14
Average Rating:4.5/10
Consensus: This gratuitous film somehow takes the idea of girl power and turns it into a misogynistic raunchfest.
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... 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. [More]
Starring: Kyoko Hayami, Yukijiro Hotaru, Takeshi Ito, Tetsuake Matsue
Starring: Kyoko Hayami, Yukijiro Hotaru, Takeshi Ito, Tetsuake Matsue
Director: Mitsuru Meike
Director: Mitsuru Meike
Screenwriter: Takao Nakano
Producer: Nakato Kinukawa
Composer: Taro Kataoka
Studio: Palm Pictures
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Reviews for The Glamorous Life Of Sachiko Hanai
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.
... a weird hybrid in the vein of the 1974 American sex pic Flesh Gordon, but with a more modern, goosed-up style.
Conceptually outlandish but routinely executed, this comic exploration of macho, control-freaky power struggles the world over remains skin-deep.
Recklessly fun, explosively colorful and intensely, abusively edited.
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.
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.
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.
An obscene, elaborate joke at the expense of the Bush Administration.... It's the trashy midnight weird-out that Grindhouse could have been.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Nothing short of confounding, the film seems to exist in an uneasy limbo between avant-garde brilliance and completely inane abrasiveness.
Uninspired staging and pacing manage the near-impossible feat of rendering such lunatic concepts dull.
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