Bondage
Hollywood

Japanese movie dealing with the sinful ways of a convent. Maya (lovely Yumi Takigawa) signs in to join a convent trying to find the truth about her mother. She is rebellious and questions the moral of the nuns. To the question: How do you solve a problem like Maya? the Abbess ties her up and punishes her severely. At minute 49 we see Maya stripped from her waist up, she is kneeling. Her torso and breast are bound with a vine with thorns Two of the nuns pull the ends of the vine to torture her with the thorns. Her arms are seemingly tied behind her back, but we don’t get to see them. The Abbess calls for the “13th punishment” and several nuns begin to whip poor Maya with rose briers further tearing her skin and drawing blood abundantly.

At minute 55 Maya is told by a dying woman how she rescued her from the convent when she was born. Her mother Michiko was a nun raped and made pregnant. In a flashback, Michiko (Kyouko Negishi) is seen tied with ropes to a chair being whipped by the Abbess. The ropes run across her chest and waist, her arms are behind the chair, she is fully dressed wearing her nun’s undergarments, her feet are not bound. She hangs herself in shame as she gives birth to Maya.

In a subplot sister Hisako (Yayoi Watanabe) has stolen money from the convent to help her sick father. When she confesses, she is punished. At minute 70 she is seen tied to a chair with heavy chains. She is naked from the waist up. Her ankles are seen wearing metal shackles. She is whipped repeatedly showing the marks of the whip all over her chest and breasts.

Finally Maya discovers that it was the priest who raped her mother Michiko and Hisako, When she is ready to expose him the Abbess wanting to protect him, ties Maya up in a convent tower and plans to poison her. At minute 80 Maya is lying on the floor, in her convent habit, without her head dress, tied with rope, shibari style with her arms behind her back. Her ankles are also tied. She manages to burn the ropes with a candle allowing us to see a close up of her bound wrists. When the Abbess comes in to kill her, a fight ensues. The Abbess whips Maya with a lash as she is trying to get rid of her body ropes. Maya finally manages to push her of a window and the evil woman gets impaled when she falls to the ground. At the end we are lead to believe that perhaps Michiko’s ghost kills the perverted priest.