Actually, contrary to the somewhat surprising majority opinion here, I thought this film was awful, and then some. I watched it right the way through without subtitles, and it loses nothing in translation. The heroine was a cute chick, and I can't see anything culturally significant, didactic, tasteful or humorous about seeing her repeatedly violated. This film must surely be a favourite of the lunatic fringe feminazis because of the way it portrays men as misogynistic sexual psychopaths. Its only redeeming feature is that she killed the serial rapist at the end, but the film has no message except what, rape and gratuitous sexual violence is a turn on? In the underbelly of Japan maybe, but not in my dystopia.