Ryo Morinaka is a university student and works part-time at a bar. He is bored with his daily life and exists in a state of torpor. One day, his friend Shinya Tajima brings the owner of a host bar over to the place where Ryo Morinaka works. Shizuka Mido is the owner of the host bar. Soon, Ryo Morinaka begins to work for Shizuka Mido at the members only host bar. He feels embarrassment initially, but he fulfills the desires of women and develops a sense of purpose.
Acting
Tori Matsuzaka's dead-eyed dissociation is genuinely unsettling.
Direction
Miura shoots sex scenes like emotional autopsies.
Writing
The novel adaptation keeps its literary ugliness intact.
Director
Daisuke Miura
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Host clubs in Japan traditionally serve female clients seeking emotional labor, not just sex—this film weaponizes that expectation.
The director deliberately cast Tori Matsuzaka against his pretty-boy image after his Kamen Rider fame, knowing audiences would bring their own desire to his blankness.
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