When your houseguest becomes your guest-starring role in marital chaos.
Mayumi Hirose lived with her husband Yasuhiro and younger sister Miki. Her girlfriend Yasuhiro, who was in the prime of his career, was busy every day, had many business trips overseas, and often returned home late at night. One day, my cousin Tadao came to Tokyo from his hometown. Tadao, who lost his family, ends up staying at Mayumi's house.
Production
Maximum melodrama achieved on minimum pink film budget.
Writing
Cousin Tadao's convenient orphan status: narrative efficiency at its finest.
Director
Yasuaki Uegaki
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pink films of the 1990s often used domestic spaces as sites of transgression, with the family home becoming dangerously porous to outside desire.
Director Yasuaki Uegaki was a prolific pink film auteur whose work frequently explored the erotic tensions of quotidian Japanese domesticity.
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