The Pleasure of Rope

The Pleasure of Rope, 2015, 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. 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. The documented cast provides a compact documentary connection across already documented Japanese and European figures without treating general documentary credits as a broad filmography layer.

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