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Midnight Virgin
Movie

Midnight Virgin

1970 • Unknown

Woke Score
6
out of 10

Plot

Chie (Sanae Ōhori), newly arrived in Tokyo, saves her friend from school, Mari (Annu Mari), from a suicide attempt. The two girls become close, eventually leading to a lesbian relationship. Their affair drifts into sadism and involvement with a bizarre sex cult, resulting in the deaths of the two lovers.

Overall Series Review

The 1970 Japanese film *Midnight Virgin* is a dark, psycho-sexual crime drama focused on nihilism and self-destruction in modern Tokyo's underworld. The narrative centers entirely on the intense lesbian relationship between a suicidal call girl and a temperamental gold-digger who explicitly reject men and traditional family structures. The women's decision to pursue a life "better off without men" is a foundational plot point, directly leading them into a world of sadism, cult activity, and a tragic, violent end. The film's preoccupation with a dark, nihilistic subculture and the descent into a bizarre sex cult promotes moral relativism and a spiritual vacuum over any transcendent morality. The story does not rely on race or whiteness for its central conflict, which is purely about sexual and criminal deviance in an urban Japanese setting, keeping the Identity Politics score low. Similarly, the critique is focused on a contemporary, corrupt underworld, not a broad condemnation of Japanese ancestors or civilization itself, mitigating the Oikophobia score.

Categorical Breakdown

Identity Politics2/10

The film’s focus is on sexual deviance and criminal nihilism within a Japanese underworld. Conflict is based on individual choice and criminal ties (yakuza), not on immutable characteristics or an intersectional hierarchy. The narrative does not lecture on privilege or vilify whiteness as a theme.

Oikophobia3/10

The film critiques a corrupt, hedonistic subculture of modern Tokyo society. The focus is on contemporary moral decay and the criminal underworld (yakuza) rather than a wholesale demonization of Japanese ancestors or core civilizational institutions.

Feminism8/10

The female protagonists are flawed, complex, and driven by self-destructive impulses, preventing a perfect 'Mary Sue' rating. However, the plot explicitly frames their relationship as a choice to be 'better off without men.' Male characters are depicted as obstacles, specifically a yakuza guardian/boyfriend and his gang. The culmination in sadism and death is strongly anti-natal and anti-family.

LGBTQ+9/10

The plot's central driver is an explicit lesbian relationship between the two main characters, moving far beyond a private subplot. Their affair is directly centered as the narrative's engine, which explicitly rejects the traditional male-female pairing and nuclear family structure by choosing an alternative sexuality that leads to nihilism and death.

Anti-Theism9/10

The climax involves the protagonists' deep involvement in a bizarre sex cult, sadism, and eventual violent death, clearly depicting an embrace of nihilism and extreme moral relativism. The narrative promotes a spiritual vacuum where there is no objective truth or higher moral law.