Monday, February 18, 2013

A Lonely Cow Weeps at Dawn (2003, Daisuke Gotô)

I'm not sure what exactly to make of this one. This is definitely one of the weirder 'pink films' I've seen in a while. Just strange...

An old farmer who is losing his mind to senility treats his live-in daughter in-law as if she were a cow. Not just any cow, however - his FAVORITE cow, Bessie, who was killed along with his punk-ass son who was taking the bovine animal to sell cuz she was too old to milk and got into a car wreck. Now, his daughter in-law and him live together and tend to the fields, though they have an odd ritual that involves her waking up early, going out to the barn, stripping down, getting on her hands and knees and waiting for the old man to come out and do his rounds and try to milk her tits. She doesn't really seem to like it, but she's clearly in love with the old whackjob so I could only assume that she was humoring him by pretending to be a dried up cow. There's also some other creep on a bicycle who's fucking the farmer's daughter in order to obtain the deed to the farm...

"The Lonely Cow Weeps at Dawn" has more of a romantic and "artsy" disposition than being really violent or 'disturbing'. There's a few simulated sex scenes and plenty of nudity. In terms of the story, it goes from being kind of funny in just a completely bizarre way, to extremely depressing all at once. I'm not really sure what to make of it all, but if you're interested in a much more bleak and 'artistically' angled piece of Japanese erotica, than I would say check this one out for yourself.

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