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Cloistered Nun: Runa's Confession

1976 [JAPANESE]

Drama / Horror / Romance

3
IMDb Rating 5.0/10 10 272 272

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Plot summary

Sisterhood is powerful. Before leaving for a mission in Africa, Runa, a nun, visits her sister three years after entering the convent when her sister stole Runa's boyfriend. Runa comes to forgive and to help her sister make enough money buying and selling some convent property so she can marry. The old boyfriend has new women in his life, but he and the sister tell Runa they're a couple in order to keep the property deal. To make even more money, Runa's sister wheedles large gifts from various men she's stringing along. There are flashbacks to Runa's sexual awakening at the convent. But what are her real reasons to close this deal?

Director

Masaru Konuma Photo
Masaru Konuma

Top cast

Aoi Nakajima Photo
Aoi Nakajima as Mayumi Kotani
Tatsuya Hamaguchi Photo
Tatsuya Hamaguchi as Kitahata
Kumi Taguchi Photo
Kumi Taguchi as Yuki Kuramoto
Toshihiko Oda Photo
Toshihiko Oda as Yamamoto
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678.2 MB
1280*546
Japanese 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 13 min
Seeds 5
1.23 GB
1920*820
Japanese 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 13 min
Seeds 7

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by lazarillo

Ring the bell

I've sometimes wondered why a country like Japan, in which maybe 1 percent of the population is Catholic, would have gotten involved in the notorious "nunsploitation" genre when many countries with much larger Catholic populations (like the US) have not. This movie does give you some insight on the appeal of "nunsploitation" for the Japanese. Only two scenes actually show life inside the convent--the opening scene where the heroine "Runa" is being sexually assaulted by the (non-Japanese) priest while she rings (and rings and rings. . .) the convent bell, and a flashback scene where as a novice she is assaulted for the first time by the same priest. Most of the movie, however, is about "Runa" returning to her hometown. She had apparently entered the convent after her slutty sister had stolen her boyfriend. She has apparently forgiven them though and has come to offer them a chance to buy and re-sell some convent land so they can afford to get married. Unbeknownst to her, they are no longer a couple (although the boyfriend does sexually assault the sister on a pool table for old times sake), but the greedy pair are willing to work together to get their hands on the valuable land.Your enjoyment of this movie will no doubt depend on how much you are able to get around the typically cavalier Japanese attitude towards rape. Japanese films treat rape in the titillating and rather non-serious manner that Hollywood films treat murder. The slutty sister, for instance, gets the money to buy the land by promising to marry a half a dozen rich guys (and giving each a print of an intimate part of her anatomy). When they find out about her deception, they lure her to a warehouse to take their revenge.But in this movie even gang rape seems to be only a minor inconvenience for the woman involved, and they actually seem to enjoy individual rape, especially if it involves a bi-sexual three-way and a shotgun. . .All in all, this a typical Japanese "pink" film. It's VERY politically incorrect, but much better made than any kind of American porn product. There's plenty of softcore sex scenes and the plot generally holds together pretty well. The acting is fairly competent, even if the characters are all completely ridiculous and the whole thing is virtually impossible to take seriously. This certainly isn't for everybody, but the people who would want to watch it know who they are.
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Reviewed by paul_haakonsen 2 / 10

Was there a point to this movie?...

Granted, I had never actually heard about this 1976 Japanese nunsploitation movie titled "Shûdôjo Runa No Kokuhaku" (aka Cloistered Nun: Runa's Confession") before stumbling upon it here in 2023. And I must admit that I had zero expectations to the movie, as it didn't really seem like a genre of movies that would be all that interesting to me. But still, since I hadn't already seen the movie, of course I opted to give it the benefit of the doubt, and thus, I sat down to watch it.

Writer Toshio Ashizawa didn't exactly deliver anything close to rocket science here with the script for this movie. And truth be told, I wasn't even particularly entertained by the storyline. It just offered nothing worthwhile watching, aside from some semi-lewd scenes if you have a nun fetish.

The acting performances in "Shûdôjo Runa No Kokuhaku" weren't impressive. But then again, the actresses and actors in the movie didn't really have all that much to work with in terms of script, dialogue and characters.

I gave up on the movie about 30 minutes into the ordeal. By then I just had enough of the pointless storyline as it trotted on and on. Director Masaru Konuma delivered a very boring and ridiculous movie. But I am sure that there is an audience out there for a movie such as this. I just happened to not be a part of that particular target audience. And I am sure that the movie was a sensation back in 1976.

Needless to say that I am not attempting to watch the rest of Masaru Konuma's "Shûdôjo Runa No Kokuhaku", simply because I didn't find anything entertaining here.

My rating of "Shûdôjo Runa No Kokuhaku" lands on a two out of ten stars.

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