Femina Ridens

[Machine Translation] This is the first time. Nobody knew it, nobody had seen it, 56 years ago, a new film, an ultra-pop avant-garde sex thriller made in Italy, finally made its first soft release in Japan after its first arrival in Japan in 2024. The film depicts a never-ending confrontation between a man and a woman, and is filled with eroticism and fetishism that can be seen in many famous films, and also includes psychedelic subcultures, sex, and black humor, creating a perfect and ultra-sophisticated world of abnormality. The near-future sci-fi artwork is uniquely bizarre, and the sheer masterpiece inevitably leaves the viewer's jaw hanging open. Philippe Leroy plays the role of Thayer, a sadistic and humiliated demon. Dagmar Lassander, a German actress who has starred in a large number of Italian crime, horror, and erotic films, gives a cool and passionate performance as Mary, a woman imprisoned in a cell. The music is by Stelvio Cipriani, a master of Italian film music. Cipriani's beautiful melodies, based on the exquisite lounge music of Ennio Morricone and traversing pop, psychedelic, and jazz, have an independent presence that transcends the film, and the film's "Mary's Theme" is popular worldwide. The film is a cruel tale of incompatible male-female lives, depicted in the most colorful of brush strokes. The ending is so poignant and brilliant that, once you have witnessed it, your entire body will become entangled in an addiction. Thayer, a charitable foundation executive with a secret identity as a master of sophisticated torture techniques, abducts and confines Mary, a journalist, in a secret hideout full of brilliant high-tech equipment, including a crucifixion room, a training room, a state-of-the-art shower, a partition-opening bed, a me-doll torture room, a water torture pool room, and a bondage doll room, where she is subjected to unimaginable physical and psychological torture. The girls are subjected to unimaginable physical and mental humiliation in a secret hideout filled with brilliant, high-tech equipment. But Mary, who smiles despite the unspeakable humiliation, is far beyond Thayer's imagination. Thayer begins to feel weak. Now begins a sexual confrontation in which sophistication and barbarism are inextricably linked.

Special Feature / Bonus Track: trailer

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こんなの、はじめて。誰も知らなかった、誰も観たことがなかった、56年前の新作映画、イタリア製ウルトラ・ポップ・アヴァンギャルド・セックス・スリラー、2024年の日本初上陸を経て、遂に日本初ソフト化。終わりなき男女の対決を描き、名だたる作品群にも通じるエロティシズムとフェティシズムを漂わせ、サイケデリックなサブカルチャーとセックス、ブラックなユーモアも含めて完璧かつ超洗練の異常世界を構築、近未来SF的美術造形は唯一無二の異様さを醸し出し、あまりの傑作ぶりに観る者は顎が外れること必至。サディスティックな凌辱魔人セイヤー役にフィリップ・ルロワ。監禁される女性メリーを大量のイタリア犯罪映画、ホラー映画、エロティック映画で活躍したドイツの女優ダグマー・ラッサンダーがクールに熱演。音楽はイタリア映画音楽の巨匠ステルヴィオ・チプリアーニ。エンニオ・モリコーネの影響も垣間見える極上のラウンジ・ミュージックをベースにポップ、サイケデリック、ジャズを縦横無尽に駆け巡るチプリアーニの美しいメロディは映画を飛び越えて独立した存在感を発揮、本作の「メリーのテーマ」は世界的な人気を誇る。相容れない男女の生態を極彩色の筆致で描いた、世にも残酷な物語。あまりに痛烈で華麗な結末を見届けたら最期、全身を中毒のように絡め取られるだろう。──精巧な拷問技術の達人という裏の顔を持つ慈善財団大幹部セイヤーは、ジャーナリストのメアリーを拉致監禁、磔部屋、鍛錬部屋、最新鋭シャワー、間仕切り開閉式ベッド、俺人形責め、水責めプール部屋、ボンデージ人形部屋など、華麗なるハイテク装備満載の秘密のアジトで、想像を絶する肉体的、精神的凌辱の限りを尽くす。だが、言葉にできない恥辱を受けても微笑むメアリーはセイヤーの想像を遥かに超えていた。弱音を吐き始めるセイヤー。いま、洗練と野蛮が表裏一体の、性の対決がはじまる。

映像特典: 予告編