Everyone's running around on tatami mats and wearing kimonos in this artful Japanese plot-driven drama which revolves around sick warriors, a tattooed dude, an older gentleman, and several fine maidens. Top-notch videography, excellent warm lighting, and a lovely cast of smooth-skinned beauties make this tape a standout, despite the generous amount of Japanese. dialogue and the pixelated genitalia. Thankfully, both humiliation and bondage come across just fine in any language.

The women in this tape are truly having fierce, forceful, and hurtful experiences, and it is not for the faint of heart - which is why it's so damn great.

The tape opens with a scene of a screaming young woman having her tawny, well-lit skin tattooed with images of flowers. After being tied up in hemp rope, she is forced to give the tattoo artist a blowjob, which is pixelated, but discernible. Subsequent scenes include even more macramé beauties (and more pixelated penetration), and their consistent wailing makes for a wonderful musical soundtrack.

A scene with a heavily tattooed man giving a struggling, unhappy, inked woman an enema with a large glass syringe is fantastically erotic. Their energy is real and palpable and very, very intense.

The only tape's only disappointment is its length, and that much of the short running time is taken up with a story line.