In fact, though peppered with scenes of mostly rough sex, and with female and male nudity that — in accordance with Japanese convention — excludes any depiction of reproductive organs, Inflatable Sex Doll of the Wasteland opens in a wasteland, first shot wide from a high angle, where a taxi drops off Sho Yuichi Minato so that he can meet the estate agent Naka Seigi Nogami and demonstrate his prowess with guns. So now Naka hires the sharp-shooting Sho to kill the abductors and get Sae back. He plans to take out the gang of kidnappers while at last wreaking simultaneous revenge on knife-wielding nemesis Ko. That film, depicting but only barely depicting sex in the most softcore of fashions, is a mise en abyme of the pink film that we are watching. Our own viewing of this film is complicated by its internal viewers.