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Koichi (Senjo Ichiriki) is a regular asshole, a guy who has his
girlfriend gangraped while he cheats on her in th every next room and the
like. He has a job with a high society lady, for whom he seduces young and
innocent girls while she and her clients watch behind a two-way mirror. One
day though, he falls in love with one of the girls he brings to his boss,
Akiko (Machiko Matsumoto), and his work begins to disgust him. Eventually,
after a barroom brawl, he is thrown into the slammer, and when Akiko waits
for him until he comes back out, he decides to mend his ways, even if that
means losing all his money and luxury his job procided him with. His
former boss though is more than happy, and time after time she tries to
get him back, without success. Embittered, she decides she wants her
revenge on him. Evenutally, Koichi's mother falls ill and needs an
operation, and to come up with the money, he returns to his lady-boss.
However, by now she wants to crush him and tells him he has to only watch
the next performance from behind the two way mirror ... as she has
secretly hired Akiko, also desperate to raise the money for Koichi's
mother's operation, to perform - which of course breaks Koichi, but to
have his revenge on lady boss, he decides to play along for a while and
return to work for her ... only to one day, and in front of an audience
behind the mirror, he rapes his boss's daughter, innocent Miki (Natsue
Hanaha). Having had his revenge, he feels able to reunite with Akiko,
but when they meet on the beach, his boss shoots him down. On
the surface, The Bite is of course little more than a sleazy piece
of sexploitation - but when watching it, one can't help but realize how
stylish the film is. Of course it was obviuosly shot on a low budget, but
that doesn't keep its director from filling it with beautiful shots, interesting
montages and many a cinematic gimmick. This might not make The Bite
a perfect film (it's much too clichéd for that) but at least a very cool
experience.
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