Your high school crush stars in softcore porn — and now you're the co-lead. Awkward.
Kazuo, a university student aspiring to be an actor, has had a crush on Reiko since high school. Reiko was a university student at the time and Kazuo's private tutor, and while she was active in theater at university, she also dreamed of becoming a professional. Kazuo passed the audition, but he never saw Reiko again. One day, Kazuo received a request from a senior at university to appear in a pink film. What's more, his role was a high school student who falls in forbidden love with his private tutor. And the film Kazuo appears in is the one that Reiko starred in...
Direction
Yoshiyuki's self-aware casting blurs reality and fiction uncomfortably well.
Writing
Script-within-a-script structure actually interrogates its own sleaze.
Director
Yumi Yoshiyuki
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pink films (pinku eiga) were Japan's domestic softcore industry, often shot in days with minuscule budgets; Yoshiyuki was a rare female director in this male-dominated space.
Yumika Hayashi, who plays Marie, was a legendary pink film actress who appeared in over 600 films before her death in 2005.
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