Japan has a long history of rape-filled, feminist-unfriendly cinema going back many years and this ANGEL GUTS series is pretty infamous for some pretty low-brow grotesque moments involving rape and other debauchery. This is the first of the series I've seen and maybe I should've started with part one because that was made back in the 70's and this, the 5th in the unrelated set, wasn't very impressive in any way. It's the story of this nurse who gets attacked by some patients then breaks up with her boyfriend then gets hit by a car, raped by the guy who hit her and finally falls in love with Mr. Reckless driver. I suppose those events could be told in some type of interesting and/or artistic way (hell, the Japanese film NAKED PURSUIT was one long rape scene and that was way better than this) but here it's all done very soap-opera-ish and lame with lots of attempts at artsy-type camera shots that come off a little laughable. You do get plenty of nudity(but optical fuzzed out genitals) and moaning Asians so if that's enough for ya go for it. AKA ANGEL GUTS 5 and RED VERTIGO
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