A teacher is sexually involved with an underage student. She visits her father's home and discovers a boy who's been kept as a sex slave. The teacher continues harboring the boy out of fear and begins to feel sexually attracted to him.
Direction
Wajima's unflinching static frames that refuse to look away.
Acting
Sugino's performance: desire and revulsion in the same breath.
Director
Kotaro Wajima
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kiki Sugino also produced; this was part of her deliberate pivot toward difficult, female-directed Japanese independent cinema.
Released same year as Japan's revised child pornography laws—film festivals debated whether screening it constituted advocacy or critique.
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