Tokyo Train Girls 1: Private Lessons

4-Legged Defender wrote a far better review than I can do here, but his remarks about this unusual video are dead on the mark.For starters, the female lead is built. That is, B-U-I-L-T with capital letters. Megu Fujiura has the sort of figure you wouldn't expect to see on a young Asian girl. Imagine a Japanese version of Dolly Parton. She is such a beauty! In the story, she is a teacher who has accumulated a lot of debt for her education, and to help pay it off, she moonlights as an erotic 'chat girl' on-line. A special necklace, which Megu likes to wear to class where she teaches, she also wears during her sexy 'chat' shows on the web. A student spots the necklace on one of her web shows and identifies her as his sexy teacher.It's basically every teenage boy's fantasy, with a little sadism thrown in, Japanese-style. The boy reveals his secret to his teacher and basically tries to blackmail her, and no, it's not money he's interested in. The molestation scenes seem to have been added as the 'icing' on an already very kinky 'cake'. Megu rides the train to and from class, and the molestation is both disturbing and erotic at the same time. Very rarely do scenes from a film affect me this strangely. The 'good' side of my brain felt sorry for Megu...I wanted to run to her aid, to beat the crap out of the sick perv molesting her. But the 'bad' side of my brain was perfectly content to sit and enjoy the show, especially after realizing that Megu, despite her weak protests, is obviously enjoying the phantom fondling.Don't know what more I can say. Nobody, but NOBODY does erotic films quite like the Japanese. It's so very difficult to pin it down to a few words, but they have a certain quality that's hard to describe. If you're looking for 'spread eagle', Hustler-type spreads, forget it. You won't see that here, or most other Japanese films for that matter. Some folks like it, many do not. If you're unsure, then Tokyo Train Girls 1: Private Lessons would be a good way to find out.

Terrible and totally PG-13, save your money!

AAA+++

Hi ! What I like best is the attractive actress. The story itself is okay. I expected an art house type movie which I'd view over and over. Tokyo Train Girls does not quite equal Japanese movies such as Police Branch 82. However for anyone interested in Japan cinema this movie is worth a watch.

If we were to look at the depiction of grouping on the Japanese subways in a film like Groper Train 2: Wedding Capriccio and compare it to Tokyo Train Girls 1: Private lessons, you'd walk away from very similar events with very different feelings. GT2 takes place in a more cartoonish universe where the sexual attention doesn't seem unwanted (when it's noticed at all). This isn't realistic but it allows the viewer a certain distance- it's more clearly taking place in a fantasy realm. TTG1, on the other hand, isn't as fanciful, and the harassment, while I would never say it's realistic, can't be as readily dismissed as part of the film's conceit. We actually get a few understated scenes where the main character demonstrates how dirty this harassment makes her feel, the film then attempts to make this sexy by showing how the main character's got a somewhat ambivalent attitude towards it, occasionally turning assault into seemingly somewhat consensual encounters. This sends the disturbing message to the viewer that no doesn't always mean no even when said repeatedly and earnestly.Now, it's a dumb movie and some may say that I'm taking it too seriously, but it's tough to enjoy the admittedly very sexy Megu Fujiura when half the scenes make you wonder if Japan ever had a woman's lib movement.

I liked this movie, if you like the genre, you will like this movie also. The scenes on the train and later in the movie are very good