A pink film about train groping that somehow becomes a meditation on performance, art, and disappearing women.
While Shinji is on the train after taking his beloved Caravan for repairs, he notices a woman being groped. The woman, Nana, accepts the man's hand with a blank look on her face. Shinji invites Nana to be his partner in a black-and-white show. He sleeps at the home of his ex-girlfriend Hanae and performs in the tent hut of street vendor Gen-san. Nana's amateurishness is well-received by the audience, and the show continues to be sold out every day. Then, Nana is given an ocarina as a gift by a middle-aged customer, and suddenly disappears...
Direction
Araki's self-aware framing that winks at its own sleaze.
Acting
Koharu Yamasaki's blank-faced mystery that refuses easy readings.
Director
Tarō Araki
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'Groper Train' subgenre was a prolific pink film series; Araki's entry is notably more self-reflexive than typical entries. Director Tarō Araki was known for elevating pink film conventions through formal experimentation.
The ocarina as gift and trigger for disappearance mirrors how pink films often discard their female characters once male protagonists achieve creative or sexual satisfaction — here literalized as vanishing.
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