Convinced that there must be more to life than satisfying her obsessive father's incestuous urges, pretty Alisa (Kinako) leaves their island and swims for the mainland; meanwhile, housewife Harumi (Yumi Yoshiyuki) is being badgered by her mother-in-law (Kiyomi Ito) to get pregnant, but is receiving such little attention in the bedroom from her husband Yoshio (Kouichi Imaizumi) that she seeks her thrills elsewhere. As the womens' search for happiness progresses, their lives gradually become inextricably entwined.
Although lighter in tone than many a Pinku movie, and just a little more surreal, Hisayasu Sato's Rafureshia is still extremely twisted stuff, chock full of sexual deviancy—in other words, perfect entertainment for those who enjoy their viewing material both arousing and amazingly weird; the fact that this film was likely the inspiration for Takashi Miike's equally perverse Visitor Q only qualifies it further as an essential slice of Japanese craziness.
From its opening scene, in which dear old daddy does Alisa on the dining room table, to the rather amusing ending, this unbelievable Pinku treat delivers the kind of outrageous naughtiness that could only come from Japan. The demented action includes such jaw dropping sights as Yoshio being pleasured by his mother while Harumi sees to herself, a trio of sex-mad down and outs getting extremely lucky, a chainsaw wielding Alisa chasing an adult baby (in the brothel run by Harumi's mother-in-law!!!), some hot 'scissor-sister' action, and a tranny hooker accosting Yoshio in a park. As is customary with such fare, there's loads of female nudity, the occasional instance of optical fogging, and loads of frantic close-up frottaging over silky white pantie gussets.
