A karate champ's straight life gets flipped harder than his opponents.
Hyoto is a Japanese karate champion. His own career, the dojo he ran, and his students were doing well, and he was at the peak of his abilities. Hyodo's only complaint was his relationship with his wife, which had become completely cold. One day, Hyoto drunkenly bursts into a store, falls in love with the beauty of the woman there. He takes her to a hotel, discovering that she is trans. Hyōto fled the scene in a panic, but after that day, his sexual preference, which had only been interested in women, began to crumble. His student Haruhiko notices this change in Hyōto and confesses that he actually loves his teacher. He would have scoffed at the previous Hyoto, but the current Hyoto was different. He accepted Haruhiko's love, and he actively stepped into a new world of sexual pleasure...
Practical Effects
Karate choreography somehow coexisting with softcore chaos.
Production
Peak 1984 pink film energy—grainy, earnest, unhinged.
Acting
Koji Makimura commits to every baffling emotional whiplash.
Director
Ryûji Akitsu
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pink films (pinku eiga) were Japan's answer to exploitation cinema, often sneaking genuine social commentary under the sex scenes—this one stumbled into queer identity discourse almost by accident.
Director Ryûji Akitsu made over 100 pink films; this was his 'prestige' attempt at emotional complexity, which explains everything and nothing.
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