Female Teacher: Forbidden Sex

High school teacher Noriko receives regular messages on her answering machine that sound like declarations of love from a student. Meanwhile she is dating her colleague Morimoto. When their tryst is witnessed by their pupils Mitsuru and Yumi, rumours begin to echo through the school corridors.

As Morimoto’s attention begins to waver due to the interest from Yumi (Asami Sawaki from Rokuro Mochizuki’s Another Lonely Hitman), Noriko by chance runs into Mitsuru in town and the two end up going on a date. Director Nakata Hideo is best known for making the hugely successful Ring, which would be the catalyst for the global fascination with J-horror. However, he started his career in the 1980s as an assistant director on Nikkatsu’s Roman Porno line of silver-screen erotica. The growing share of sex films in V-Cinema allowed him to make his feature directorial debut and stay close to his roots.

Nakata would move on to other genres, but with Female Teacher: Forbidden Sex he set a template that would grow into a reliable subgenre of straight-to-video erotica. Lead actress Hitoe Otake, a former Miss Japan, would forge a career for herself in these kinds of V-Cinema softcore sex films, becoming known as the “V-Cinema Queen” and a regular of tabloid glamour spreads.

– Tom Mes

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