From distributors Toyko Shock comes the suggestively titled Spanking Love, which I purchased hoping for great spanking or whipping, with nudity and sex thrown in for good measure. I mean, it is a Japanese movie, right? It was billed as coming from the producers of Tokyo Decadence, which I thought was, in fact, nicely decadent and so I was perhaps expecting too much. That would be me foreshadowing this review.

The movie revolves around a guy named Ryo and two girls named Mayumi and Yuki. Ryo and Mayumi have a thing going. Mayumi is a worker or performer at an S&M club and also does a rich private client, who may or may not own the S&M club. The English subtitles were hard to follow. Ryo is a videographer who specializes in picking up random girls on the streets of Tokyo (or wherever they are) and persuading them to let him video them being stripped and whipped. Really, if it is that easy to get random girls on the streets of Tokyo to be willing BDSM toys like that maybe I need to relocate.

We get a random tour of the S&M club at the start, and there is a girl against a wall being whipped and a girl hanging upside down and naked on the stage being whipped. Very brief scene. And there are also men in BDSM situations. A lot, in fact. Very probably too many for my taste.

Less than 10 minutes into the movie, we see Ryo out on the streets, looking for subjects. He sights Yuki and persuades her to pose for him. She turns out to be a phenomenon.

The first GIMP scene is Yuki's whipping. She is tied AOH wearing a long white dress (that sadly covers her the entire time), looking defiant. A man with a whip walks up and grabs her chin and forces her to look at him. She wrests her face away. He pokes her with the handle of the bullwhip and snaps it in front of her face. Then he starts whipping her fairly harshly. She just stares straight ahead making no sound at all. The sounds of the whip are pretty great, though. Kudos to the sound effects guys. Whip guy stops to taunt her and she spits in his face. He slaps her and pushes her off-balance and while she is righting herself he takes off his shirt and gets ready to do some real whipping. Which he does, in an almost over-the-top fashion (kind of like the exaggerated fighting moves in kung-fu movies). He whips a couch, too. She closes her eyes a few times but doesn't make a sound. She just stares intently at the camera with a "hit me harder" expression on her face. Here's a video clip.

Some more random scenes of the S&M club are scattered throughout, like at the 19:00 minute mark there's an upside down naked girl being whipped. About a minute after that we spend more time with her. She is crying and there are marks on her body as three guys whale away at her simultaneously. Here's a YouTied clip of that.

Anyway, everyone wants Yuki, and it is up to Ryo to convince her to work at the S&M club or else it will go hard for Mayumi. I'm not quite sure of the politics and motivations, so I just kind of went with it.

About 21:30 minutes in, there is a non-GIMP bondage sex scene (technically a bondage foreplay scene) between Ryo and Mayumi that I particularly liked because Mayumi's nearly naked body was covered in sweat. She is tied AOH to a bed and blindfolded with a satin sash. Ryo spends a lot of time kissing and caressing her hot wet body, from her lusciously arched neck down to the top of her bikini panties, with special emphasis on the pair of hard coral nipples atop her sweat-soaked breasts. And you know me and hot sweat-covered bound babes. This was a favorite scene for me, even though it was just consensual bondage sex. So I posted it to YouTied, for anyone else who likes non-GIMP hot sweaty bondage sex.

At 25:00 minutes, Yuki is watching a TV show where a guy in a gas mask is manhandling a girl onto a table and then, I think, cutting her belly open with a long knife. Japanese TV. You gotta love it. She gets several phone calls from Ryo and he manages to persuade her to come to the S&M club.

Gratuitous shower scene featuring Mayumi at 28:30.

When they get Yuki to the S&M club, by the way, they have her whip a half dozen almost naked guys on stage. They do not strip and whip her. I was significantly disappointed at this turn of events. She is employed as a dom. Damn, huh?

Well, more stuff happens. Uninteresting, non-GIMP stuff. At the 48:00 minute mark we watch a conversation while in the background is the videographer's latest model, who seems to have changed her mind, so she is fighting and screaming as a couple guys manhandle and attempt to remove her clothes but all they really manage to do is get her down to bra and panties and pull her bra down to reveal her breasts. She is kind of chubby and not all that hot. We cut away without resolving whether she was forcibly stripped and whipped or what.

About 1:16:00 there is a stage show where two girls in long white dresses and white feathery angel wings are lowered, hands bound over head, onto a stage and whipped. White feathers fly everywhere, but the clothes remain on and there's not much heat to the whipping scene. And here's another video clip.

About 1:20:00 we see Ryo and Mayumi bound AOH on stage naked except for leather straps strategically placed on them. Mayumi's breasts are showing, though. They are whipped. Ryo imagines it is Yuki whipping him and he enjoys it. I'm thinking Mayumi would be better off with another boyfriend, because this guy is seriously conflicted.

There is a final sex scene that starts out under covers and then proceeds with way too much backlighting. No GIMP appeal.