Lack of good storyline.

Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

"Beauty in Rope Hell" is a mildly interesting Japanese bondage pinku directed by Genji Nakamura of gay pinku "Beautiful Mystery" fame.A beautiful wife,whose husband just went to war is kidnapped by a mailman,kept in the attic and of course subjected to sexual abuse and degradation.She quickly becomes dependent and submissive to her captor..."Beauty in Rope Hell" is nothing new or original,when it comes to the storyline.It surely contains some pretty hot sex scenes plus a good amount of shibari bondage,but it wasn't as interesting or extreme as several other pinku flicks I have seen.This one is for completists only.7 out of 10.

I couldn't really find anything all that notable in BEAUTY IN ROPE HELL other than the intriguing title. A pretty lackluster production that doesn't bring much to the table in terms of either an original storyline (another "by-the-numbers" Oniroku Dan script) or any really notable sleaze - not a total loss of a film but I tend to expect more out of the pinku genre...A mailman kidnaps a pretty woman whose fiancée was just drafted to go to war. He keeps her in his attic and when she finds out that her husband has died in the war, she eventually becomes dependent upon her kidnapper. The kidnapper's girlfriend gets jealous when she finds that he's got wood for another chick, so she busts in on them boning and kills the guy...The End...A few decent nudey scenes (no full-frontal, of course) are the only thing of note about this film. I can't say that I hated it or anything, as I find even "average" pinku films more entertaining than a lot of other stuff - but I've been OD'ing on these films lately, and this one was definitely not among the better ones, at least in my view. Not much to really recommend about this one - again, not a terrible film, just nothing noteworthy and will probably only be of interest to pinku completists...6/10