The Pleasure of Rope

The Pleasure of Rope, 2015 / 2018, is a British film in the bakushi / kinbaku ecosystem.

Era: 2010s

Feature documentary by Bob Bentley exploring kinbaku / shibari through footage gathered over four years in the UK and Japan. Espresso TV's distributor flyer states that the film was completed in 2015, while IMDb records its public release in 2018. The official film and distributor pages describe multiple public versions - a 90-minute television feature, 120-minute theatrical feature, 3 x 52-minute series and DVD set - and frame the project around backstage access, workshops, performances and intimate testimony from rope practitioners.

People associated with The Pleasure of Rope: Clover Brook, Fuoco, Gestalta, Gorgone, Hajime Kinoko, Nawashi Murakawa, Naka Akira, Osada Steve, Kazami Ranki, WykD Dave.