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  Review by Lou (rhymes with wow!) ★★★½ 6

  As far as melancholic, neo-noir softcore dramas from the '80s go, this is one of the better looking ones..

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  Review by Gregor Kreyca ★★★½ 5

  Hit Woman aka. Dream Crimes aka. Muhan is a 1985 Nikkatsu sex & crime thriller. It’s heavy on sex and light on crime. It’s a slow burn movie so to speak and it can feel kinda plotless at times. The reason I still like it quite a bit are that it is beautifully shot with a great Neo-Noir atmosphere and because lead actress Rei Akasaka is an A+ hottie.

  She is not as sensual and charismatic as Naomi Tani but I love her stoic but beautiful face and that body is an absolute killer. Speaking of “killer”, that is what she portrays here. The titular (chain-smoking) Hit Woman. And in all honesty, she’s a pretty bad one. She is unfocused and…

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  Review by edil

  Gorgeously shot in a noir-esque night, drenched in rain, neon lights, cigarettes and blood, a hit woman is hired to visit the city and kill someone by seducing him. The visuals were top notch like the shiny red lipstick and the green telephone. I wish the story had more going for it, but then it achieved what it aimed for. 

  I saw this under the (better) title: Dream Crimes.

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  Review by NOT LEVANA ★★★★★ 1

  Takashi Ishii takes a very brief break from writing movies about a woman named Nami to imagine what it would be like if Golgo 13 was a woman with a fat ass and trauma

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  Review by nosebleedhaver

  lmfao the whole movie i was like "i bet this is the cinematographer who did nun in rope hell" and would you look who it is. elite.

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  Review by Clara 2

  it was always super pretty and stylish but i couldnt focus well enough n zoned out often 😔 green n red r my 2 fav colours ... the main girl was beautiful n i loved her pearly long nails im sad i cant have long nails cos of sensory issues </3 but we move

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  Review by Alejandro Valadez ★★★½

  Might be Ishii’s loosest script, but in a way that understands and capitalizes on the format of Roman Porno films. It’s really nothing much besides the struggle of a woman with her own sexuality as it’s conceived almost entirely upon trauma and violence, submitted to the emasculation of Japanese phallocentrism until it’s essentially assimilated into its structure, forced to replicate its practices (typical Ishii, imo); no wonder then why the only time she and we feel relatively safe is when she’s at the mercy of another woman and sharing a moment of vulnerability with an equally ridiculed man, when she can freely explore her sexuality without the violent impositions that defined her own individuality. Of course, the only path she…

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  Review by Jason Coffman ★½ 1

  The worst female assassin in cinema history is hired to kill a guy, but she keeps getting distracted by sex.

  There's some striking imagery here, which is no surprise coming from the director of Zoom In: Rape Apartments and Nurse Diary: Beast Afternoon. Unfortunately it's buried in a dull and deeply mean-spirited story, which reaches a perverse nadir in the film's climax. Still, it's neither as outrageously grotesque as Zoom In or as flat-out insane as Nurse Diary. Only Nikkatsu obsessives or completist fans of the director or stars will likely find this of much interest.

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  Review by Christian ★★★½

  Nikkatsu softcore about a hit woman that’s shot by the weirdly talented DP of Nun in Rope Hell and penned by Takashi Ishii, which means that even though this is more of a clothesline to hang sex scenes on than an actual crime narrative this gets a serious bump in atmospherics and look above the baseline Roman Porno. The slick neon-Japanese-nighttime crime aesthetic: gotta love it!

  Takashi Ishii heads like me will be delighted to learn that this shares basically all of his iconography (the nightmare scene in particular is classic Ishii) and even a few of his directorial stylistic tics - the freeze frame on the hit woman spitting blood out of her mouth before she shoots a guy to death in a parking lot is a collage of like three or four pieces of Ishii iconography in one go lol

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  Review by pratt360 ★★★★½

  From what I've seen of Ishii's work, this is the first time he enters into more generic thriller territory ("generic" not used in any derogatory way), and the simple interiority of the story is wonderfully executed. The performance style and story structure truly place this into some beautifully oneiric narrative spaces, and like many of his films it ends on a moment of dampened suspense that serves the pulpy nature of it all extremely well.

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  Review by 𓄿Tina? 𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐𓀐 ★★★½

  The woman is an accessory to the world of violence, contradicted by the presence of Akasaka's character. Her often aloof portrayal of the feminine assassin is used to subdue and overthrow the male-dominated world of crime. She does not partake in underhanded scheming, but her air of comfort opens the natural vulnerability of the overconfident and misogynistic targets. Her power is the unconscious dismissal of feminine threat, weaponized against the wannabe suitors of her destruction.

  Is there joy in the world that passes you by? Regardless of self,
  Akasaka remains a tool for men as an asset to a masculine society's schemes and conflicts. Her presence is that of a wandering gunman, a loner in a desert of feminine presence.…

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  Review by coolbrag ★★★★

  A horny masterpiece, even without subtitles. Beautifully shot, especially the scene where she’s in an electrocution daydream.