Rope and Breasts

is a 1983 Japanese film in Nikkatsu's Roman porno series, directed by Masaru Konuma and starring Nami Matsukawa. Synopsis Sayo is running a travelling SM show with her husband, where she plays the bottom, and gets increasingly bored with her life. During their tour in Kyoto, they are arranged by a well-off couple who ask for a private show, without knowing that they will eventually be forced for the "real thing". Cast Nami Matsukawa: Sayo Mayuzumi Ryōsei Tayama: Isao, Sayo's husband Kazuyuki Senba: Kenzo Kawamura Izumi Shima: Taeko, Kawamura's wife Akira Takahashi: Strip club owner Izumi Sagawa: Girl at Kiyomizu-dera Yōichi Takabayashi: Man in kimono (with the girl) Saburō Shōji: Kawamura's contact Critical appraisal In their Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films, the Weissers write that with Rope and Breasts, director Konuma has taken the S&M theme—which he pioneered in Nikkatsu's with Afternoon Affair: Kyoto Holy Tapestry (1973)-- to the level of exploitation. In this film, they judge, nudity, bondage, and torture have taken place of a story. Rather than the interesting plotting found in some of Konuma's previous works, the film is a series of set-pieces. "The most salacious finds beautiful Nami Matsukawa floating in a large goldfish bowl as she empties her bowels for the leering crowd of old geezers."