When downward dog goes sideways and your marriage goes with it.
'Hayakawa Serina' is having a happy marriage with her husband alone. She attends a yoga class on the advice of her husband. Then one day, she started a private class at the suggestion of a yoga instructor, Kawaguchi. However, during class, Kawaguchi forcibly violates Serina, and by recording a video of it, threatens her and forces her to respond to her demands. Serena, who was unable to tell her husband about this situation, was forced to accept his request, and Kawaguchi, who is unfamiliar with the situation, comes to Serina's house to attend a business trip class...
Acting
Hayakawa's bottled panic feels distressingly real.
Direction
Osaki knows exactly how to stretch tension thin.
Director
Hirokoji Osaki
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Japan's 'adultery drama' AV genre, which often frames coercion as titillation. The 2017 release coincided with #MeToo's global rise, making its timing particularly uncomfortable.
Director Hirokoji Osaki specialized in these psychological coercion narratives; this film's domestic invasion third act became a template he'd repeat.
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