Mr Sakamoto seems to have everything, a good (and well-paying) job, a
beautiful wife, Saori, a house on the beach and a yacht, and enough money
on the side to afford himself a prostitute, Yuka, exclusively for himself
on the side. However, one day when he visits Yuka, he finds her murdered,
and the killers are still on the scene to make a picture of him leaning
over the dead body as if ... you know. Then of course, there are his
fingerprints all over the place, and the killers also have home movies of
him shagging Yuka. But the killers are no inhuman animals (?), they agree
to let him off the hook for a price, $100,000 - which is of course way
more than he owns ... but he manages to cut the price in half by offering
them Saori for a gangrape in exchange ... When Sakamoto returns home, he
finds Saori raped - but he manages to stop her from calling the police and
actually make her feel guilty for what had happened. The next day, Saori
meets a guy she pays handsomely for having broken up her affair between
her husband and Yuka. It takes her a bit to recognize him as one of her
rapists from the night before (in her defense, he was masked). He admits
to it, but tells her her husband has invited him to - and shows her the
key to her house on the beach as proof. He promises her to get back at her
husband, but only in exchange for more sex. Saori agrees, and they have
sex on her yacht, but when the boatboy witnesses it, he throws the
blackmailer overboard. Saori throws the key to her house the blackmailer
has returned to her overboard and asks the boatboy to fetch it - in
exchange for sex, knowing he has always longed for her. He jumps
overboard, and Saori leaves both of them to their fate. That night the
boatboy returns with the key, and Saori asks him to have sex with her
right in front of her sleeping husband, but when Sakamoto awakens, he
brutally throws out the boatboy, with Saori laughing at him. The next day,
Sakamoto stumbles into his prostitute Yuka again, very much alive after
all. He follows her home and finds her making love to her pimp ... who
turns out to be Sakamoto's blackmailer and his wife's rapist. By now
everything seems to be a bit sexual game of chess, and it seems Saori has
beaten Sakamoto. So everything is ready for some make-up sex - but it
seems both of them have forgotten a pawn in the game who has reached the
other end of the board and turned queen: The boatboy, who is still in
possession of their housekey, and his hurt bride has made him turn it over
to a gang of young and horny joggers always lusting after Saori - and now
that they got the key, they of course enter her house and gangrape her
right in front of her husband ... who actually gets turned on by all of
this, and seeing him getting turned on actually turns Saori on as well. In
the end, the boatboy is the loser in the game, because he really cared for
Saori, and seeing her being gangraped broke his heart. And Saori and
Sakamoto? They have found real pleasure in being raped/watching the
other being raped, and now start looking for their next victim in their
game of sexual chess ... You might not agree with the theme of
this movie ("rape is bad, but ..."), and I know I don't really
do, you might call the film misogynist, politically incorrect even if
standards have changed since 1980, or you might call it simply perverted -
and all of this is true in a way, but it's also the very wrong way to see
this movie. Basically, Wife's Sexual Fantasy was never meant to
be a message movie or something like that, it wasn't meant to carry
universal truths or anything, this is just an individual, fictional story
about individual, fictional characters. A likely story? Maybe not, but
maybe there are couples with this kind of fetish out there ... What's
fascinating about Wife's Sexual Fantasy though is that it's really
well-structured and well-written, so much so that it's really closer to a
game of chess than your usual sex flick. And add to that a directorial
effort that avoids pure sleaze without shying away from showing naked
bodies or just glossing all over the sex scenes but invests just the right
emotion into each single one of them, and you got yourself a pretty good
movie!
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