Raindance Report: The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai Review

However, the bullet lodged in her brain doesn’t kill her, but results in her being able to absorb information like a sponge, and become hyper-intelligent. She also finds the mysterious item in her handbag is a replica of George Bush’s finger, the imprint of which can set off a code and cause mass worldwide destruction. Following me so far?

Well this is where things get really weird. George Bush appears to her in a number of bizarre hallucinogenic moments, in which he lets her know the true power of her new possession, which he can also control at will (and he’s a very naughty boy!! Think ‘Monica Lewinsky’ and ‘cigars’, and you get the drift..). Meanwhile, a number of characters are on the tail of our dazed heroine and her peculiar new possession. Unperturbed by the bizarre events occurring, she decides to spend time in the library enjoying her new mental agility, before ‘hiding out’ at the home of a college professor whose book she absorbed. Keeping with what she’s good at, she poses as Home Tutor to his Son, while indulging in a bit on the side with the Noam Chomsky obsessed professor. Cue a slapstick ride through WMD’s, sex lessons and roaming fingers as our wacky heroine, rather insouciant to her predicament, gets herself entangled in a number of ‘sticky’ situations.

Certainly a crowd pleaser, this was the wackiest thing I have seen in a long time, but darn good fun, it’s quick fire pace leaving no room for boredom. Finding numerous ways to amuse the audience from the so-bad-it’s-good moments (The finger bopping on a very obvious string was a highlight) and it’s gentle poke at world events, not to mention a whole bunch of softcore (and highly comical) sex sessions thrown in to the mix, this is a film that wears its pinku heart on its sleeve. Director Mitsuru Meike obviously having great fun with the material, the cast hamming it up to slapstick extreme.

I certainly recommend checking out The Glamorous Life if you get the chance. Not only was it a highly entertaining evening of top class trash, but a lesson to us all that it’s never too late to further our home education. You just need to find the right tutor.

Gummo.