lazarillo A disgruntled waitress and a shy male pastry chef "accidentally" become serial killers when, while driving home one night, they pick up a crazed hitchhiker (kind of a female version of the guy in "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre") who strips out of her clothes, smears cake batter all over her body, and cuts herself with a razor blade. After they accidentally kill this nut-job, they have frenzied sex for the first time and realize that murder is a real turn on. . .This movie is kind of a horror/black comedy like Oliver Stone's "Natural Born Killers". But it doesn't have the smug hypocritical "social commentary" of that film (i.e. preaching against violence in the media at the same time you're wallowing in it). It's also a Japanese "pink film" so it has a lot of gratuitous sex and nudity. It's obviously very politically incorrect, so people who are always getting offended by movies (isn't there enough stuff to get offended about in real life?) should probably avoid it. The truth is though where American movies tend to take murder with a grain of salt (and sometimes even make it entertaining), Japanese films do the same with murder AND rape. Thanks to years of misguided feminism, Americans tend to take the latter very seriously, but nobody is REALLY being raped in these movies anymore than they're really being murdered. (Wouldn't all the political energy be better spent by, I don't know, trying to enforce the prosecution of REAL-LIFE rape as an international war crime or something?).For what it's worth, this movie is not as "rape-happy" as a lot of Japanese exploitation flicks. The far more disturbing thing is that this couple is sexually turned on by blood and violence. It is also, however, a very well made by a respected Japanese director. The lead actress is not very attractive in the conventional sense (although she is a lot more impressive with her clothes off), but this actually works well with her "outsider" character. The male lead is also very good, transforming believably from a shy male virgin to a raving psycho. This movie obviously isn't for everyone, but if you're the right kind of viewer and in the right frame of mind, you might very well enjoy it.

christopher-underwood Fine bravura tour de force from Mr Hasebe. A young nerdy cake decorator and a waitress misfit work in the same tea-shop. She makes a play for him and they end up on the road, in the rain picking up a near naked hitch-hiker who gleefully rips off her wet clothes and more. This delirious movie begins almost as a comedy, although there is always an edge. The scenes preceding the hitch-hiker's demise are almost dreamlike and it is unclear quite what the tone is to be. But gradually the waitress, desperate to get her pal to get hot enough in bed to get her hot, hits on the connection between the blood and violence and his erection/performance. Once the direct correlation between killing and f***ing is established there is no holding this kid back. Inevitably, in the end he seems content just to kill and the film builds to the most amazing and bloody climaxes. Very well made with loads of s & v.

chuck-219 We start in a restaurant where a patron hits up on a waitress. Let me tell you, I've seen surly before, but this chick "takes the cake" (if those who have seen it will pardon that one there).Anyway, things start a bit slowly, with our waitress and her somewhat cowering pastry chef, until a hitchhiker stops them dead in their rain splattered tracks. After stowing aboard aft, she proceeds to strip and cover herself with his confectionery creations (which she augments with his pastry knife to her arm). She then goes for a "space walk" alongside the car and becomes a visceral experience (sexually) for the both of them. Foreplay is yet invented for this couple. The story goes on with our happy couple discovering pleasures anew with victim after victim (all beginning with some "sharp to the carp" for them all). Our chubby waitress is the dominant factor in the opening, but our knife wielding chef soon takes matters into his own hands. His freelancing only fuels her fire to keep them together.This one has some "roughiness" that is somewhat nasty as Formula-1 cars are just a bit fast. There are carvings galore in this one with one getting "upped" Don Ciccio style to her sternum. The sex is single "X", but it's definitely a great experience (with good production values and acting alike). Highly recommended.Charlie.

ElijahCSkuggs Assault! Jack the Ripper! is a movie the average person will never forget, or actually, will never see. It's a rare, brutal Japanese film that includes rape, sex and murder. For fans of pinky films it's a leader in the genre. And I can see why. It's a well made film with very nice acting from all members of the cast. For anyone who's into video games, there is some great music in this that is very similar to a game called Katamari Damacy. Which is a fantastic game by the way.The movie is about two restaurant workers who realize that the only way they can have hot sex is through killing someone. Good enough reason for me. But things begin to go seriously wrong for this Japanese Mickey and Mallory.AJR! is definitely not for everyone. It's a very sexual and violent flick that will most likely only appeal to extreme cinema fans and brave souls willing to widen their horizons. I personally think this film kicks ass in it's depiction of no holds barred sex, violence and mayhem.