A beach house, a broken woman, and a motorcycle boy who won't stop circling. 1979 Japan knew how to ache.
Saeko had an affair with Kuno, a photographer, but after the car they were driving in had an accident, she has withdrawn into a villa in Shonan. One day, she meets Shinji, who rides his motorcycle in front of her beach villa every day.
Cinematography
Shonan coast shot like a fever dream of salt and skin
Direction
Kato frames longing like a crime scene
Director
Akira Kato
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pink films of this era used coastal settings to explore female sexuality outside urban moral surveillance.
Shino Ikenami was a Nikkatsu Roman Porno regular who often played women trapped between respectability and abandon.
JP
