A submissive hooker goes about her trade, suffering abuse at the hands of Japanese salarymen and Yakuza types. She's unhappy about her work, and is apparently trying to find some sort of appeasement for the fact that her lover has married.
Direction
Ryū Murakami's clinical gaze turns degradation into hypnotic visual poetry.
Cinematography
Tokyo's love hotels shot like alien spaceships of transactional intimacy.
Acting
Miho Nikaido's thousand-yard stare haunts long after credits roll.
Director
Ryū Murakami
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Japan's 'pink film' genre, which used softcore budgets to sneak avant-garde experimentation past censors.
Yayoi Kusama's cameo as the fortune teller wasn't acting—she genuinely believed in the spiritual visions she described on set.
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