Metacritic Film

Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai, The

Starring Emi Kuroda, Takeshi Ito, Yukijiro Hotaru, Tetsuaki Matsue, Kyoko Hayami, and Shinji Kubo

MPAA RATING: Not Rated

Palm Pictures
Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Foreign
90 minutes | Color
Japan
Released In Theaters April 13, 2007

Sachiko Hanai, lusty, private home tutor takes a non-fatal bullet to the head transforming her into an unlikely genius who climaxes to the collected works of Noam Chomsky. Entrusted with the perfect replica of George Bush’s naughty trigger finger, Sachiko deftly dodges North Korean spies in hot pursuit of the sole fingerprint capable of unleashing a devastating nuclear apocalypse across the world. With the future of mankind in her horny hands - Can the lusty genius save us all? (Palm Pictures)

WRITTEN BY
Takao Nakano

DIRECTED BY
Mitsuru Meike

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

46 / 100

Critic Reviews

70	Village Voice Aaron Hillis Expanded by a half-hour from its prior incarnation as a pinku eiga, the formerly titled "Horny Home Tutor: Teacher's Love Juice" is now an apocalyptic political satire.
50	The Onion (A.V. Club) Truth be told, Sachiko Hanai is probably an accomplished "pink film"; just don't mistake it for something classier.
50	The New York Times Apparently started out as just another soft-core item, or what the Japanese call a pink film, but evolved into something more ambitious, sort of. Certainly it doesn’t look or play out like the typical American pay-TV fodder.
30	Variety If outrageous concepts were all, this latest fillip in the oft-eccentric history of Japanese "pink" (softcore sexploitation) cinema would be genius. But the crazy ideas in Takao Nakano's script just fitfully amuse under Mitsuru Meike's draggy direction.

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