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Tetsuro (Saqnsho Fukami) is the leader of a miniature biker gang,
consisting of no more than three members, himself, Kaji (Kenji Kasai),
who's a bit of a loose cannon, and Sada (Higuchi Tatsuma), who hasn't even
got a bike of his own. Basically all these guys do is cruising the streets
looking for women to rape. Sure, Tetsuro feels himself superior to Kaji,
whom he frequently calls an animal, but he rapes their victims all the
same (Sada by the way never rapes, though it's never explained why). Tetsuro
is also responsible for bringing up his little sister Megu (Megu
Kawashima), and he has to realize she is more and more a woman, just like
the women he and Kaji rape, which worries him - to an extent that when he
witnesses Kaji trying to rape Nami (Machiko Ohtani), a schoolgirl Megu's
age, he saves her. This of course creates a rift between him and Kaji, so
much so that to preserve the peace he has to agree to rape Nami at a later
date. Tetsuro does so, but when Kaji tries to rape her as well, a fight
ensues. Tetsuro saves Nami from Kaji again at a later date ... Mad at
Tetsuro, Kaji becomes good friends with Megu, and eventually he takes her
home and almost rapes her. She gets away, but the experience opens her
eyes to what her brother does. When Tetsuro takes Megu home, he gets into
a fight with two police officers and breaks through a police blockade, out
of sheer frustration. He knows he has pushed things beyond repair, and
figures the only thing to at least make up with Megu is to give himself up
to the police, but not before getting even with Kaji. When he tries to
provoke him at a club though, he instead gets into a fight with a yakuza,
which is only resolved when Sada comes to his rescue and kills the yakuza.
Tetsuro makes sure that Sada has a clean getaway before the police arrives
to take Tetsuo in - for murder ... Of course, based on its
basic themes (rape, bikers and schoolgirls), Angel Guts: High School
Co-Ed sounds like pure exploitation, and it is to a point, but that
doesn't keep this movie from being disturbing and thought-provoking at the
same time. Now I wouldn't go so far and call this movie a thinking man's
exploitation flick, but it's quite successful of leaving the good/bad
dichotomy of similar movies behind and instzead create a certain moral
vacuum. That the film is very well made (especially considering its low
budget), stylishly filmed and expertly paced keeps this film from becoming
a bland message movie though - and makes it all the more disturbing at the
same time. Recommended, actually, but you might have to have the stomach
for it.
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