When your father-in-law's 'housewarming gift' comes with seriously unhinged strings attached.
Reiko couple who live with their father-in-law. Her father-in-law, who is lustful for Reiko's sex appeal, begs Reiko to show her nakedness by giving Reiko the money to buy a house to live without the couple. A father-in-law who attacks Reiko who responded reluctantly. The old man, who has a friend take a video of it and plays with Reiko as he pleases, is even more reckless.
Acting
Sawamura's crushingly restrained performance of trapped desperation.
Direction
Tameike's unflinching, voyeuristic gaze that implicates the viewer.
Director
Goro Tameike
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shigeo Tokuda became an unlikely geriatric star in Japan's 'elder porn' niche, making this exploitation uncomfortably meta. The industry literally built a genre around his age.
Goro Tameike's filmography obsessively returns to trapped women and predatory older men, suggesting either critique or compulsion—possibly both, possibly neither.
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