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The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai (2004)

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Average Rating: 4.5/10
Reviews Counted: 20
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 14

This gratuitous film somehow takes the idea of girl power and turns it into a misogynistic raunchfest.

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Average Rating: 3.8/10
Critic Reviews: 7
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 6

This gratuitous film somehow takes the idea of girl power and turns it into a misogynistic raunchfest.

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Average Rating: 3.2/5
User Ratings: 927

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A sexy call girl becomes the flashpoint of an international incident after inadvertently coming into possession of a curious artifact with the power to unleash Armageddon on a world consumed by chaos. Sachiko Hanai makes a living by fulfilling the fantasies of men who always longed to make love to their teachers. One day, upon wandering into a local coffee house, the unsuspecting sexpot sets off a violent gun battle between two groups of gangsters involved in some seriously shady dealings. As

Jun 5, 2007

Palm Pictures

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All Critics (20) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (7) | Rotten (15) | DVD (5)

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.

September 14, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
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.

July 23, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | Comment
Chicago Sun-Times
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Conceptually outlandish but routinely executed, this comic exploration of macho, control-freaky power struggles the world over remains skin-deep.

July 5, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | Comment
Chicago Tribune
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Combines soft-core porn with a fantastical sci-fi plot.

April 30, 2007 Comment
Hollywood Reporter
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An apocalyptic political satire.

April 25, 2007 Full Review Source: Village Voice | Comment
Village Voice
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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.

April 13, 2007 Comment
New York 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.

July 15, 2007 Comment

My head wants to explode at the woman-hating hideousness of this.

June 22, 2007 Full Review Source: Flick Filosopher | Comment
Flick Filosopher

[M]y head wants to explode at the woman-hating hideousness of this.

June 20, 2007 Full Review Source: Flick Filosopher | Comment
Flick Filosopher

Recklessly fun, explosively colorful and intensely, abusively edited.

June 7, 2007 Full Review Source: Orlando Weekly | Comment
Orlando Weekly

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.

June 1, 2007 Full Review Source: Seattle Times | Comment
Seattle Times

More entertaining for its impudence than its execution...

May 31, 2007 Full Review Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Comment
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

While its title makes no sense, this imaginative erotic adventure mixes the famous file footage of the toppling of the statue of Saddam Hussein in with some rather raunchy behavior of George Bush that will really generate a little shock and awe.

May 25, 2007 Full Review Source: EURWeb | Comment
EURWeb

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.

May 5, 2007 Comment
Reel.com

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.

April 23, 2007 Full Review Source: Film Journal International | Comment
Film Journal International

An obscene, elaborate joke at the expense of the Bush Administration.... It's the trashy midnight weird-out that Grindhouse could have been.

April 17, 2007 Full Review Source: About.com | Comment
About.com

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.

April 16, 2007 Full Review Source: Denver Urban Spectrum | Comment
Denver Urban Spectrum

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.

April 14, 2007 Full Review Source: Entertainment Insiders | Comment
Entertainment Insiders

Just don't mistake it for something classier.

April 14, 2007 Full Review Source: AV Club | Comment
AV Club

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.

April 14, 2007 Full Review Source: Time Out New York | Comment
Time Out New York
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Audience Reviews for The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai

As a soft core porn movie, its pretty good!! Yes, plot is outrageous and bizarre, but the acting is decent and the pacing of the film moves at a rather brisk clip. One thing for sure, it does entertain as long as nudity and alot of sexual situations does not put you off. I thought the ending was a bit predictable

April 18, 2010
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This movie confused me, it is a softcore porn that tries to have a deeper meaning, but really all you get is a girl with a delayed reaction to all senses after a bullet in the head, an assassin/detective/rapist turned good guy and a very bizzarre and puzzling sequence of George W fingering the lead via a self traveling

June 10, 2009

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