For an accurate appreciation of UNIFORM VIRGIN - THE PREY, it is important to dispense with the usual adjectives from other reviewers -- "hazy," "typically mean," "an endurance test," "not for the fainthearted." True, those words apply in a sense but don't capture the film's unique grotesque-ness. Also, this movie fits into a corner that is atypical for Hisayasu Sato: the pixelated Japanese porn genre. UNFORM VIRGIN features a hulking high school student who attends math class and is humiliated by the teacher. He sneaks off to the school's media room and engages in a series of hardcore fantasies of stalking, attacking, and apparently killing some of his classmates. In one of his fantasies, the shaken victim responds by committing suicide. Throughout, this boy mumble obscenities while recording the atrocities on a portable video camera. These psychotic episodes are broken up with vignettes of his victims talking to (Sato's) camera about themselves. The most outrageous and interesting of these attack scenes bookend the movie -- an art student covered in various colored paints as he molests her, and the penultimate sequence of his attack on a schoolgirl in public, in broad daylight, while shocked onlookers, who are obviously not extras in the film, back away. Most interesting is a (staged?) moment in which one of the onlookers walks blithely past the near-rape of the schoolgirl. It is in scenes like this that Sato excels, bridging reality and fantasy in a fascinating cinematic moment.
