Bondage leads to a Stockholm syndrome

Journey to Japan (1973)

A Danish distribution company called Another World Entertainment dug up this very rare film from the realms of forgotten celluloid and brought it to us in a glorious DVD format. Well unfortunately there is a reason this one was forgotten, it sucks (no pun intended). A Swedish girl, played by Christina Lindberg, arrives to Tokyo and accidentaly gets into a wrong car which she believes is her escort. The driver of the car is a poor loser who has no idea what the woman is talking about and why did she get in his car. Well then he of course decides to bring the girl to his shack, tie her up and rape her. Well to keep it short, the girl gets away only to be raped again, gets back to the man and falls in love with him. So yeh, that's basicly the story here. Lots of softcore sex and Christina spends most of her time naked tied up in various ways. There are a few individual scenes that were quite nice and the wacky ultra wide format it was shot in actually works quite nicely on some parts. But damn the movie is just so bad I had a hard time to keep my interest on it. Kind of like a bad porn movie without porn. Some points for the couple of nice scenes and Christina Lindberg who is always nice to watch.
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Sexploitation version of Indiana Jones

Gwendoline (1984)

What happens when the director of Emmanuelle (1974) decides to make an action adventure in the spirit of Idiana Jones and the likes? You get Gwendoline, a campy, sexy, badly made, good looking, bondage oriented and even quite violent fun ride. I don't even want to go to the acting, the cast is there for their looks, not for their talent. Most of the effects are quite bad, but funny enough all the gore effects are quite striking. They have their priorities I guess. The story is crap, but serves it's purpose to take the movie to the land of the women. The dialog is straight from a porno movie, "Take off your clothes, it's raining!" or while being captive of a cannibal tribe "You don't want to die a virgin", you get the point. Plenty of tits and asses, spiced with bad jokes and campy story. Not the best of it's kind, but it's still fun for a hangover morning when you want to give your brain a rest.
69%