Debauchery (1983)

Ami (Ryoko Watanabe of Love Hard, Love Deep) is a dissatisfied wife.  Sure, her husband is a successful doctor and provides any material need she may want but sexually speaking, she’s dissatisfied.  So when she hears about the Madame Michiko Society Club her curiosity is aroused.  She immediately gets a job during the days servicing clients.  Things go downhill from there.

Well, Debauchery certainly tries it’s best to live up to it’s namesake.  I think for the most part it falls a little short of that descriptive title.  A lot of the film plays like any other eighties/nineties erotic thriller (even though this is from ’83 it feels much later to me for some reason).  You’ve got some extremely overwrought melodrama involving a sexually dissatisfied wife.  You’ve also got her sexually frustrated best friend and her old college friend who still holds a strange obsession with her.  Of course you’ve also got the whole prostitution angle which has always lent itself rather well to melodrama.  So far all this sounds fairly standard.  This could be the plot of any number of bad Cinemax films or Red Shoe Diaries episodes.  Not that that is particularly bad or anything, its just not all that inspiring.  One strange thing though, the film feels more like a horror film than something designed to titillate.

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