Mika Madoka: Yubi o nurasu onna (1984)

Mika Madoka: Yubi o nurasu onna: Directed by Tatsumi Kumashiro. With Madoka Mika, Takashi Naitô, Kiriko Shimizu, Usagi Asô. Real-Life stripper Madoka Mika plays the fictional ROSE RED, a former striptease queen who is now doing roadshow engagements while trying to raise her kid and balance her love affairs.

“My eyeballs got dirty just watching this movie. There was a good movie about the famous dancer Gypsy Rose Lee some years ago (Gypsy 1962), but this is nothing like that.nI would not call this a u0026#39;good movieu0026#39; , and yet it is worth a watch for the curiouse. The main point of interest here is the cultural differences. The way that the baby is used in the movie almost makes it a horror movie. At first I thought that the baby was replaced with a doll when the actors started to move around violently. I thought that the switch was so smoothly done that I could not even catch it being done. But then I realised that they actually did not bother to swap the baby for a doll, they just started whipping the actual baby around like a rag doll and carried on. His head actually changed colour a few times and I was surprised that it did not pop off. Incredible.nNot one of the characters in this movie had any redeeming qualities. The ending was absurd, but if it was all intended as a parody of humanities folly – which I do not give it credit for attempting – then you could see the entire thing as comedy. I simply found it ugly. But as a converstaion subject for film fans, it cerrtainly does the job.”