It has been two years since unsuccessful cartoonist Tsube started to live with Kuniko casually in a small apartment.
Acting
Tadanobu Asano's quiet unraveling — watch his eyes go dead.
Direction
Ishii's lurid pinku heritage bleeds into every frame.
Cinematography
Claustrophobic apartment becomes psychological prison.
Director
Teruo Ishii
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ishii was 73 when he made this, returning to the psychosexual territory of his 1960s 'ero-guro' films after decades of mainstream yakuza movies.
The film adapts a manga by Yoshiharu Tsuge, whose autobiographical work defined the 'gekiga' movement — adult, despairing comics that rejected mainstream optimism.
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