Perhaps Yasuharu Hasebe's strangest pic? The director of "Rape", "Assault - Jack The Ripper", "Raping", and "Rape 13th Hour" has made his share of audacious, sexually violent movies. This is definitely another. "Osou!" ("Attacked!") explores the kind of familiar, dark territory that the director is infamous for. A policewoman (Yoko Azusa) who is fascinated with Western images of violent pornography becomes the victim of a rape when her police car is rammed and pushed into a warehouse by a large truck. The anonymous driver leaps from the vehicle and cuffs, gags and rapes her as Beethoven thunders away on the soundtrack Kubrick-style. The film owes a great debt to Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange" for its juxtapositioning of rich classical Beethoven symphonies with sexually violent imagery. After our policewoman "recovers" from her ordeal, she becomes obsessed with violent, abusive sex and deliberately sets out to be raped again and again. She also solicits sex from her girlfriend's partner and picks up several men off the street. Hers is a dark, strange odyssey that isn't entirely believable, but the film's stark subject matter and Hasebe's tireless style help us to forgive its handful of sins. Although there is a lot of sex and close to half a dozen rapes here, the film is not bloody or as energetic as the classic "Assault - Jack The Ripper" or the provocative "Raping!" At times it drags and its totally humorless tone gives it an irritating sameness. Gripes aside, though, it is a strong piece of violent pink cinema that needs to be seen by converts who share inexplicable enthusiasm for this underrated ghetto of the silver screen.