She Cat

Smart Talk on Skin: SHE CAT Doubles-Down On Story To Reach A Larger Audience
The Pinky/Pinku films kinda/sorta underwent a bit of re-invention in the early-to-mid 1980's due to the emergence of adult home video. These direct release properties were vastly cheaper to produce than a bigger, bolder, sexier theatrical film. In order to compete, production companies beefed up the stories and poured a few more dollars into the budget; so long as these features continued delivered the "goods" (such as a sex act once-a-reel), audiences were unlikely to raise a fuss over such pesky additions of more plot, more action, and more story. The benefit was that the filmmakers might grow their audience by actually bringing in folks more interested in those things; of course, the disadvantage was that they'd alienate their existing audience in the process.

SHE CAT very much fits the mold of this narrative re-invention. It serves up a more complex story than Nikkatsu had provided in so many earlier releases. That also raised the ante by requiring more of these...

Quite a Disappointment
Japanese "porno" is quite tame by most standards because they can't show genitals at all. A typical sex scene in this film features flashes of very small breasts and the occasional butt.

Although the "star" pictured on the cover has large breasts, we only see them for a couple of seconds at the beginning of the film, for a few seconds in the middle, and for a few seconds at the end. All but one of the sex scenes in the movie feature pretty but small-breasted actresses. There is a clear element of bait-and-switch here, since the cover model appears for a total of about one minute in the film. That is disappointing.

Delivers
Not bad at all. Although the action sequences are a tad tame. Overall, a good Japanese action film. She's hot too!

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