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White Rose Campus (Nikkatsu)

Director -  Koyu Ohara

Cast - Nami Misaki, Ayako Ota, Tsutomu Akashi, Yuichi Minato


Country of Origin-  Japan

Discs- 1

Distributor - Synapse/Impulse

Reviewer- Steve Lewis


Date-   10/29/2018

The Film (4.5/5)

 

After taking their strenuous school exams, the all female study body of White Rose Academy embark on a single teacher led, weekend field trip to a popular lake resort.  The trip's mission is to mold the lives of young women into proper citizens of Japanese society and to also let the girls get to know each other more intimately.  Little do the students know that when their coach bus arrives at a particular rest area, three perverted and violent thugs plan to storm their the chariot, hijacking their field trip, and turn the jovial trip of aptitude into womanhood into a deviant-laden rape fest that begins with the teacher.  One-by-one, each girl becomes the humiliated and objectified object:  clothes ripped from their olive skin, penetrated with brute strength, and forced to succumb to their attackers' every whim.  Along the way, the labeled "ugly ones" are let off at a bus stop where they're picked up by pair of well-dressed truckers and being convinced by the girls' story of heinous assault, the truckers decide to follow in pursuit and put an end to the students' plight, but are their intentions justly chivalrous or do they have untold nefarious plans of their own with the young girls?

 

"White Rose Campus," aka "White Rose Campus: Then Everybody Gets Raped" is the 1982 pink film from Koyu Ohara, making a debut onto the North American DVD market via the pinkusploitation appreciator and racy subversive label, Impulse Pictures, under their sub-collection line of the Nikkatsu Erotic FIlms from Japan.  Written by "Female Gym Coach:  Jump and Straddle" screenwriter Kazuhiko Ban., "White Rose Campus" sheds all humility and common good, catapulting violence, sleaziness, and no-holds debauchery that throws caution to the wind into a packed 66-minute runtime and whereas most superpower countries dance around sado-rape-culture pornography, the Japanese continue to be about as blatant as the short schoolgirl skirts the female students don on the daily. 

 

"Black Belt Jones 2:  The Tattoo Connection" actress Nami Misaki stars as the trip treacher, willing to take a old and droopy one for her bus full of young hens; Misaki has prominent presence, angst, and determination underneath soft, java-toned skin.  She's the very first raped victim of the three hijackers:  Takeda, Gozo, and Tatsuo, shoed by Tsutomu Akashi, Yuichi Minato, and Tomoyuki Taura respectively.  Yet, the three actors possess in their characters different ambitions that range from just being a follower, to a dirty old man, to forbidden love.  The complex web of deceit and gang rape deeply involves a withdrawn student, Yoko Nakamura (Ayako Ota of "Sex Hunter"), and her role steers a one of disgust and one of power that becomes the root of their troubles. 

 

Ohara's pink film is quite an experience; perhaps the most ruthless and downright pervert one yet to come across, especially with the dirty old man sticking two used tampons up his nostrils and jerking off in a woman's bathroom stall; yet, "White Rose Campus" has, perhaps, more than standard censorship.  Its understandable when two of the assailants performer a backdoor line of each student bent over the bus seats, but male buttocks are even blurred out and that really stuck out that the dairy-air requires a blurry-blanket.  Not necessarily a flaw in Ohara's bale of filth, but surely a conundrum to ponder of Japan's requirements and laws regarding pink films.  ANother aspect of the film that constituted my respect is that none of the characters are of upstanding quality as, in one way or another, fail the social normalcy and store more than what's beneath the fleshy and veiny barbarity. 

 

Audio/Video (4/5)

 

Impulse Pictures classic  eroduction of "White Rose Campus" is now on a region 1 DVD and presented in an anamoprhic widescreen, 1.85:1 aspect ratio.  The details are pleasantly immaculate with Impulse's release, especially around the amount of beady sweat dripping down the old man's face or the amount of wrinkles and stubble on the worried bus drivers bulgy mug.  Lets not forget to mention the striking definition of naked actresses.  The colors are fairly natural and mostly brilliant, but, at times, go into a slight wash, losing that pop on some strips of reconditioned film.

 

The Japanese Dolby Digital 2.0 mono track is regal among dual channel audio tracks, delivering crystal clear dialogue, wide range of effects, and great depth.  English subtitles are included and accuracy and syncs on point with the Japanese dialogue and if there are any spelling mistakes, they went unnoticed.

 

Extras (0.5/5)

 

The only extra is the film theatrical trailer.

 

Overall

 

"White Rose Campus" is as notorious is the DVD liner claims and equally as odd.  Saturated with perversion and hard up on sadism, Impulse Pictures is the pure winner here and despite lack of extras, the release is still absolute gold in not just content, but also with the technical aspects.  Lets also not to forget to mention the DVD cover has a risque reversible liner.  Recommended!