Year: 2012
Duration: 01:18:53
Directed by: Haruhi Oguri
Actors: Hideyuki Arai, Yuko Date, Mitsue Fukumoto
Language: Japanese with English Subs
Country: Japan
Also known as: Donzumari benki
Description: Donzumari Benki opens in a high
school storage room reminiscent of If… a secret places where a personal
rebellion unfolds. Narumi-chan’s with a boy. She pulls her panties up as
he begins the patter of how good it was for him. She’s nonplussed. As a
cicada begins its electric buzz she asks for 300 yen. Not much to
charge for sex, but for Narumi, we will learn, this small fee exacted
from the boys in her life represents taking some control. As he starts
to fuck her again in voiceover, we hear her dispassionate voice:
“I shaved my legs first when I was in the 5th grade and in 7th grade
my armpits. My menstruation stated in the 8th grade and I had my first
sex in the 11th grade. I was a woman.”
We then see her with her teacher, Shimada (Shohei Uno) in a lab
examining sperm samples, talking about mechanics and miracles – the
chance of a sperm reaching an egg, the chance of love. She blithely adds
her noncommittal rejoinders while stealing a vial of Shimada’s sperm.
She later attempts to self-impregnate herself with said sperm.
Sex itself is a means to something she can’t find – and in her own
personal tragedy, will never find. She’s too self-centered, infantile
and mixed up. But like a train that can’t stop, she powers on to her own
wreck, taking whomever she can with her. Director Haruhi Oguri takes
the whole sticky mess and twists it around into a perverse tale worthy
of Bunuel, but with a decidedly post-feminist take that slyly lauds
Narumi’s destructive energy.
Actress Nahana informs the role of Narumi with a feral intensity. As
an up and coming character actor, she risks being typecast as your basic
girl punk. She got a mix of boyishness, electric energy and nihilism
that was showcased magnificently in Takahisa Zeze’s Heaven’s Story. In
that film, Zeze tamed her character with motherhood. In Donzumari benki,
she’s allowed to go to full force into the abyss.
- Nicolas Vroman
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