aka Wet Rope Confession

Newlyweds Miki (lovely Yuki Nohira) and her husband are honeymooning at their hotel. Miki has just settled into her bath when three thugs break into the hotel room. They quickly tie up the husband and one of them bursts into the bathroom. One look at naked wet Miki and he knows what he wants. He charges into the tub, gags Miki with a towel, and starts humping her from behind. She manages to liberate her mouth and bites her attacker on the arm. Now he’s really mad. He lunges at her again and finishes the job while the other attackers force her husband to watch. This is a very intense, nasty scene, conducted with swift brutality and lots of splashing. Miki puts up a good fight but finally surrenders to exhaustion, pain and humiliation.

Afterward, Miki’s husband decides that his honor has been violated and he no longer wants her. (Guess it’s a cultural thing.) Miki packs her bag and despondently wanders along the oceanfront until she ends up on a seaside cliff. Before she can fling herself to certain death, she’s rescued by a priest, who says, “Get thee to a nunnery!” or the Japanese equivalent of that. So begins Miki’s life as a penguin.

Right away, Miki senses that things are not as she expected. Two of her roommates sneak a long hard roll from the dinner table and start to play hide-the-weenie with it. Then they scurry to the basement to finish their snogging session in private. Miki is shocked, but another roommate is amused. (I didn’t catch her name, but because she’s so uninhibited, I’ll refer to her as Sister Randi.) Randi grabs a candle and Miki and heads to the basement to view the show.

Now, there’s a freaky fellow living in the netherworld of the convent who is dressed in black like a priest. Obviously deranged, he’s assigned to menial tasks like serving dinner, shining shoes and cleaning porcelain bed pans. Don’t ask me why the two lascivious nuns chose to demonstrate their lesbian proclivities right in front of this guy’s cell. He gets riled up, pulls out a red whip and starts thrashing the lusty pair. One of them begs for mercy (or is she begging for more?), but the freak-in-black grabs her by the hair, attaches her wrists to a rope on a pulley, and hoists her AOH. This all looks pretty cool, but since I don’t understand the language, I’m not sure if the two nuns took part in all of this involuntarily. Maybe it’s better not to know.

We don’t get to see what happens next because the camera follows Miki, who has been observing nearby and immediately bolts from the scene. She runs to the chapel where she discovers a wounded gangster wearing shades and hiding out from the police. She takes pity on him, hides him in a storage room, and even extracts a bullet from his arm. (Wow - pretty, pious and talented.)

Next day, Randi discovers Miki tending to the healing gangster. Inexplicably, he immediately shags Randi right up against the wall as Miki watches and Randi enjoys. When Randi leaves the premises, a bit shaken but stirred, she is confronted by fellow sisters who wonder why she’s out of uniform. I don’t know what she told them but all eyes turn to Miki. Miki ends up tied to a cross, soaked with water (Get it? – Wet and Rope!) and whipped by Mr. Freak while the other nuns force Randi to watch. (Nuns weren't this cute when I went to Catholic school.)

Unfortunately, Miki doesn’t show much skin; she’s bound so tightly to the cross that she can’t move (thus, no writhing or squirming, but nice facial reactions and hair tossing) – and again with the red whip, which made me think of a giant strawberry Twizzler.

Then Mr. Freak takes a fancy to Miki’s knees and starts munching on them as she screams and moans. The priest (who rescued Miki and convinced her to enter this hell house in the first place) arrives on the scene and has Miki brought to his room to recover. Feigning interest in inspecting the bite marks on her legs, he swiftly works his way up through her bloomers and panties. Miki expresses horror as the camera abruptly cuts away. (There may be more to this scene - perhaps it was excised).

In Miki’s absence, Randi takes on the chore of tending to the gangster. She brings him food but he wants to know where Miki is. Randi’s reluctant to say, so he tears open her robe and gives her a few titty twisters to make her talk. This happens very quickly and unexpectedly; it’s a nice surprise.

The rest of the movie concerns a plan by the priest to raise money by turning the convent into a bordello for a group of business types. The customers lay their money down and don African masks (?). One of the customers gets picked at random for the privilege of giving reluctant participant Miki a poke from behind as she’s in (and then out of) a sheep outfit. That touches off a full-blown orgy involving everyone. There’s an ironic twist at the end, but no more GIMPage.

Movie plusses: Action-packed (but not explicit) opening rape scene, nice but brief AOH and an eye-popping nipple-squeezing event. A sprinkling of additional nudity and consensual sex. Convincing performances by all, especially cute and appealing Yuki Nohira.

Movie minuses: The whipping scenes were weaker than I prefer to see them. The red color of the whip was distracting, although it does show up well in the darkly-lit convent basement scenes. The overall tone of the movie was more often goofy than nasty, at least once you get past the opening rape scene. It may be unfair to compare this flick to Nun Story, but it certainly is a step down from that one, IMO.