The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai (2003), Japan
A political satire (seriously) focused on a prostitute who in a random visit to a restaurant witnesses a meeting between North Korean and Middle Eastern (?) terrorists gone sour and following a gun battle, gets shot in the head. She then miraculously recovers only to find out that she has become a mathematical genius and philosopher (quoting Descartes and kierkegaard to name but a few) and swallowing whole pages of War and Peace in the local library. To top it all off, the restaurant owner inexplicably places what looks like a vibrator in her purse which turns out to be a container for a cloned version of George Bush’s index finger and she later finds out from an image of George Bush reflected in the bottom of a well that it holds in it the fate of the world.
If that isn’t weird enough, apparently, the film was originally planned to be of the “pink” variety (apparently one can still watch this version under the title of, I kid you not: ” Horny Home Tutor/Hatsujô kateikyôshi”) but somehow the creators thought that it would work much better as a philosophical rumination on nuclear weapons. They kept the obligatory one-to-every-10-minute sex scene though in case you were wondering. I would’ve loved to be a fly on the wall at that meeting.
As you may have guessed, this is NSFW!
2/5
