A retired pickpocket's prescription for impotence? Erotic audiobooks from his housekeeper. Japanese cinema really said 'write what you know.'
Senzo, an elderly man who once made a living by pickpocketing on crowded trains, now lives alone in a spacious house. His biggest worry is that he is no longer able to have sex with women due to his age. So he decides to cure his impotence by listening to erotic stories from Yumi, a young part-time worker. Yumi asks her friend Mika to come up with stories and reads them to Senzo every day. The stories stimulate his lust and gradually Senzo's penis begins to rise, and finally...
Writing
The sheer audacity of this premise as narrative therapy.
Production
Micro-budget 1988 pink film aesthetics: grainy, cramped, committed.
Director
Akira Fukamachi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pink films (pinku eiga) were Japan's solution to circumventing censorship laws—required to show genitals but not erections, creating bizarre formal constraints.
Director Akira Fukamachi was a prolific pink film veteran; this was one of roughly two dozen 'groper train' films he made between 1984-1990.
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