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Plot Summary
Seizou, a tattoo artist, strives to create works of art that will exist long after he passes. One day, he sees the perfect canvas: the unblemished back of a female grad student. A genius in color theory, the young woman studies and experiments with block printing. Seizou kidnaps her, holding her captive in order to carve his artwork into her skin. But the allure of her prints and his enchanting ink-work slowly transform her. She begins to long for his touch. Wanting to surpass the work of his father, Seizou imprints the image of an ancient Japanese princess on her bare skin. But as the tattoo transforms their relationship their dynamic is reversed, and they become intertwined in an shared destiny.
Customer Reviews
An After-School Special for the 21+
Let me first say I like 'Shisei: The Tattooer' and as I am vaguely obsessive I will more than likely watch it a time or two more just today, but it is by no means perfect or even very, very good. What it is, is a quietly addicting bit of entertainment. Though its intensity waivers, its intent remains the same throughout, and there is an erotic flavor which barely pays off and just misses being an artificial sweetener by virtue of the of believably mundane albeit kinky intimacy between the players. As predictably as the tale is rendered it still manages to get a bit beneath the skin--seriously, I wasn't looking for that one--and credibly hold the attention not so much by fulfilling its promise as a work of beautiful-horror or aesthetic cruelty, but by exceeding its parameters and coming on nicely as an engagingly imaginative even if amateur production that just cuts the ice of what a person with the inclination could plausibly pull off. It has just that kind of feel, and it really is worth checking out.
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