Housewife + sexless marriage + delusional actor = chaos you can't look away from
A film from "Spring," the fourth group of works from the Love & Eros CINEMA COLLECTION 2nd season. Humorously depicts the emotions of a housewife troubled by her sexless marriage. Homemaker Ryoko (Komatsu Miyuki) is irritated with her husband (Tayama Ryosei), who doesn't help out with household chores or child rearing. Ryoko starts working part-time for fun, and meets aspiring actor Yahata (Kaai Gamo). Having reaffirmed her identity as a woman, Ryoko fans Yahata's delusions about love.
Acting
Komatsu Miyuki's deadpan frustration is perfectly calibrated
Direction
Uchida finds humor in excruciating marital silence
Director
Shungicu Uchida
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Japan's Love & Eros Cinema Collection, a 2010s anthology exploring female sexuality through arthouse lenses—rare mainstream-adjacent space for women's erotic stories.
Director Shungicu Uchida also appears in a small role, continuing her pattern of inserting herself into explorations of messy feminine desire.
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