When an alluring young woman joins an erotic writing class, she begins a game of sexual cat and mouse with a naïve college student. As they venture into more and more unpredictable territory in the bedroom, he begins to think she might be using him as a test subject for her fiction more than anything else.
Writing
Script weaponizes awkwardness like a precision instrument
Direction
Tanada's female gaze flips exploitation cinema on its head
Director
Yuki Tanada
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a wave of early-2000s Japanese 'pink films' directed by women, deliberately reclaiming a genre historically built on female objectification.
The film's Japanese title 'Tsuki to Cherry' references a vulgar slang term, signaling Tanada's intent to confront dirty talk with intellectual rigor.
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