[MUBI] "Inflatable sex dolls of the Wasteland" (Atsushi Yamatoya, 1967) is a film noir that marked the directorial debut of Atsushi Yamatoya, the same year he had participated in the script of "Branded to Kill" (Seijun Suzuki, 1967 ), considered one of the best yakuza movies ever. The story begins with a businessman commissioning a hit man to kill those responsible for the rape and murder of his lover, who have also recorded in his presence.

The film unfolds towards almost hallucinatory terrain, in a way of telling the story that dives into the protagonist's past and that proposes a plot that bends in on itself. It could be defined as a kind of psychological "film noir", in which the director rehearses with experimental shots, underlined by an excellent free jazz soundtrack by the pianist Yôsuke Yamashita. But the story and the lines are quite disastrous and the lack of budget causes ridiculous moments. The woman is represented as a nympho and as an inanimate object (literally), but the film does not contain too many erotic scenes. It is also an example of the production way of "pink films", since at the same time that they participated in these film, the actors Noriko Tatsumi and Yūichi Minato starred in "Love's milky drops" (Ario Takeda, 1967), which it was shot on the same sets.