Sopping Wet Married Teacher: Doing It in Uniform

Naoko, female art teacher suffering from bipolar disorder spends her time at home compulsively chopping cabbage. She occasionally then begins cutting herself, causing her husband, Yoshio, to intervene. Yoshio attempts to help Naoko by dressing as a woman, "Yoshiko", in whom Naoko can confide. Yoshio has a low sex drive, and hopes to stimulate his interest by having Naoko dress as a school girl. When so attired, shopping for appropriately adolescent socks, Naoko meets Kimiko, one of her female students. Kimiko's parents have abandoned her, and she stays with a strange man named Tokio. Naoko suggests that Kimiko come to live with her. At their home, Kimiko proceeds to seduce both Naoko and her husband. During a sex session with Yoshio, she binds him and paints obscenities onto his body. ==Critical appraisal==

In his Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema, Jasper Sharp writes that Imaoka's placing a mentally unbalanced woman at the center of Sopping Wet Married Teacher: Doing It in Uniform is a brave thing for a pink film director to do. Imaoka's film, according to Sharp, plays like a softcore version of John Cassavetes' A Woman Under the Influence (1974) with a dark sense of humor. At the UK website unrated.co, Carl T. Ford writes that Imaoka uses the low budget of the film to his advantage by creating a documentary-influenced film which intentionally works against creating any eroticism in the sex scenes. He writes that Imaoka "isn't interested in appealing to an audience seeking sexual thrills, but instead offers an intelligent and subversive look at sexual politics." According to Ford, Imaoka skillfully uses props, such as the cabbage and the knife, to reflect the inner states of mind of his characters, and he considers the acting to be above-average for a pink film. He concludes, "the film maintains audience interest for its innovative and reflective insights into relationships and their power balance patterns, and remains a thought-provoking and somewhat artistic entry in a genre too often given over to bondage, bums, and breasts with little brains at the helm." ==Bibliography==