A cooking lesson turns into emotional chaos when your student drops divorce papers between courses.
Tachibana Joji, who works part-time as an English conversation teacher and translator, is a popular man. His date for the day is Misato, a stay-at-home mom and student at his English conversation school. The two head to Joji's house, where Joji enjoys a delicious meal of Misato's one-of-a-kind cuisine. However, afterward, Misato tells him she's getting divorced, which makes Joji panic...
Acting
Sakura Tachibana's deadpan delivery of devastating domestic news.
Direction
Watanabe's genre-hopping between food porn and nervous breakdown.
Director
Mototsugu Watanabe
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pink films in the 2010s often used domestic spaces to explore economic anxiety; this fits the tradition of 'shifting intimacy' cinema where private lessons become proxy relationships.
Tsubomi, playing Naomi, was one of pink cinema's most prolific performers—this was one of dozens of releases that year alone, often shot in 3-4 days.
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