A young girl, who lost her father at her early age, is kidnapped by a school teacher. He strips, binds, and attempts to rape her. For the next few days, she tries in vain to escape. Eventually, she becomes used to life with him. Even when she has a chance to run, she chooses to stay. Slowly, their relationship becomes a creepy half-paternal, half-romantic liaison.
Exploitative in nature, "Education" reeks of male fantasy run amok. Actress Rie Fukami is the perfect choice as the center of attention. She's obviously not a teen, but she's young-looking enough to please all the perverted old men out there who cries out for this type of film. Director Yoichi Nishiyama must really know his audience because he gives us long loving looks at the naked body of his nubile young star. Thankfully we are spared seeing Yasuto Hida, as the male '40s-something pervert Sumikawa, shed his clothes. There's nothing worst than seeing a wrinkled butt simulating sex on a pretty young girl.
As far as sex goes, there are a number of sexual encounters between Haruka and Sumikawa. Having trained the young girl well enough that she is now infatuated with him, Sumikawa introduces Haruka to the joys of having dull missionary sex with a '40-something pervert. But perhaps director Nishiyama was seeking some sort of credibility with his work, because there are no real gratuitous sex scenes. Compared to the South Korean movie "Summertime", the sex in "Education" is incredibly tame. |