Photographer Tadashi (Shinsuke Akagi) and design company Yuko (Mariko Junko) who are working part-time are married people who have both built ordinary households. However, as they happen to meet each other, they gradually become more and more attracted to each other.
Cinematography
Tight frames that make strangers brushing hands feel seismic
Acting
Akagi's silences speak entire monologues of longing
Director
Yukinari Hanawa
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Nikkatsu's 'Roman Porno' revival series, though Hanawa strips away the genre's usual explicitness for something far more excruciating.
The title's English translation loses the Japanese '密会' — literally 'secret meeting' — which carries heavier connotations of shame and transgression.
JP
