Your best friend borrows your alibi to sleep with your high school crush. Awkward.
Time passes quietly without incident. Shizue lives peacefully as a wife. Masako, who is Shizue's friend and lives in Nagoya, uses Shizue as an alibi and comes to Tokyo several times a month to have an affair. When Shizue learns that Masako's cheating partner is Akira, a star athlete back in high school, a faint feeling of jealousy runs through her...
Cinematography
Hazy afternoon light becomes its own character
Acting
Junko Miyashita's restrained desperation in every glance
Director
Shōgorō Nishimura
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pink films of the 70s often smuggled genuine female psychology under exploitation packaging. Miyashita was the genre's unlikely auteur—she elevated material others played straight.
Shizue's alibi complicity mirrors how the film itself operates: respectable framing, illicit content beneath. Nishimura makes us voyeurs to her voyeurism.
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