This movie is about a lonely wife whose husband goes out of town. She is attacked and raped in a field, which for some reason causes her to get back together with her potentially violent ex-lover. But then a couple of high school girls are attacked and burnt to death (after the killer pours lighter fluid on them and ignites their pubic hair!). She begins to suspect her lover of being the notorious firebug/rapist (and he certainly gives her every reason to with his ominous words and bizarre behavior), but it could also be his other female lover. . .
This is a superb example of a Japanese "pink" film and, for that matter, a superb example of how to make a quality softcore sex film. First off, it is not just series of interminably long sex scenes that tend to motivate most viewers to just flick one off the wrist and then fall asleep long before the short running time has expired. It has a plot--a completely bizarre, off-the-wall plot with a series of giallo-esque rapes and burnings--but a plot nevertheless. Like an Italian giallo it is also very well filmed and the effective visual style more than compensates for the gaping plot holes. And there ARE some hot sex scenes, but they're hot because they're aren't so many of them and they don't go so long that they complete inure (and ultimately bore) the viewers. As for the appalling misogynistic violence, well, it's less disturbing than it sounds due to its stylized execution. It's certainly not erotic (even though the killer insists on completely stripping his nubile victims, never mind that clothes would be much more flammable than pubic hair), but it has the effect of kinda cleansing the palate in between the consensual sex scenes, kind of like a shot of seltzer water (or perhaps Everclear).
This movie is kind of like an Italian giallo or a Joe D'Amato "Black Emmanuelle" or a Brazilian pornochachada. It's not a serious film (and shouldn't be taken as such unless you want to get VERY offended), but it goes way beyond being a mere sex film and into the realm of sheer, unadulterated exploitation.
