A marriage so boring they'll let strangers in — and you're invited to watch.
Takuya and Yumika are a married couple living an upper-class life, but their sex life is a bit stale. But when the husband finds out that his wife has feelings for another man, an unexpected flame of lust begins to burn within him... With the guidance of "procurer" Sakurai, this twisted love affair begins, with Takuya peeking at Yumika having sex with another man, but soon it takes an unexpected turn, and the couple find themselves falling into a whirlpool of endless carnal desire...
Direction
Kawano weaponizes the static shot — every peek feels like complicity.
Acting
Oura's dead-eyed desire is genuinely unnerving, not merely performative.
Director
Goshi Kawano
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pink films underwent a 'respectability' wave in the 2010s-20s, with directors like Kawano attempting psychological complexity within rigid runtime and content constraints — this sits awkwardly in that evolution, too arty for the genre faithful, too explicit for festival respectability.
The 'procurer' figure in Japanese erotic cinema descends from the katsuragemochi of feudal literature — a mediator whose neutrality is always performative, and whose profit depends on maintained chaos rather than resolution. Sakurai's smiling passivity is centuries deep.
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