“Pure”: Your Bloody Asian Valentine

"It was a fabulous tabloid scandal in 1930's Tokyo, forcing the repressed society to confront sex and death in explicit terms," said David Aaron Clark of the true story behind his upcoming "Pure," a movie I'm very excited to see.

"'Pure' is based on a real-life incident that has fascinated me for many years," Clark, who rarely works outside his beloved Asian palette, said. "Sada Abe (played by Asa Akira), an ex-hooker and failed geisha takes a maid's position at a tea house owned by a husband and wife. She starts an affair with Kichi, the husband (Keni Styles), known to be something of a rogue. They run away together and carry on a mad affair, drinking and fucking and experimenting with progressively more kinky sex. The affair starts to go sour as they run out of money."

"I hope you pay me for the rights to my life story," I said.

"One night, Sada takes the strangling game she has initiated with Kichi too far," Clark said. "A large kitchen knife becomes involved, post-mortem."

If this story sounds familiar, you might be thinking of one of at least four movies (including "In the Realm of the Senses") made about this sensational story.

Evil Angel hired Clark to write and direct his version, which features a subtle switch to L.A. fetish dungeons from the original setting of pre-World War II teahouses. Not only that, but Fleshbot favorites Asa Akira, Keni Styles, Jessica Bangkok, and Lana Violet lead a cast of dozens for this movie aimed straight at AVN awards consideration.

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