The SM Detective Bakushi Explores Lives of Rope Masters

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Body: Appreciate the review. BAKUSHI is something I've been meaning to see for a long time - it was first screened in Rotterdam early in 2007 - but even though there is an English-subtitled Hong Kong DVD I just haven't gotten around to it...maybe your review explains why. Those interested in the subject - such as ourselves - are perhaps unlikely to learn much, or get much of a kick out of it. Those with little knowledge of the subject are that way because they're not really interested in it and therefore are unlikely to want to see the film in the first place. Of course, I'm not going to dismiss the film without seeing it. Director Ryuichi Hiroki began directing RomanPorno's at Nikkatsu in the early 80's and made some SM hard X psuedo documentaries for the company featuring the likes of Shiko Shima and Hiromi Saotome with whom he reunites with in BAKUSHI. Since then he's become a respected filmmaker winning awards for the likes of VIBRATOR (despite the title, not a sex film) while seemingly still remaining in touch with the SM world...probably his best film is I AM AN SM WRITER, based on a semi-autobiographical work by Oniroku Dan. So he would seem the perfect man to make something like BAKUSHI. Bottom line: I need to go out and pick up the DVD!
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