Sakuragi realizes that, when he becomes aroused, he can see how many sex partners someone has had.
Direction
Sakichi Sato commits fully to this unhinged premise
Writing
Somehow builds an actual plot around this gimmick
Director
Sakichi Sato
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Sakichi Sato wrote the screenplay for Takashi Miike's Ichi the Killer, which explains the tonal whiplash between gross-out and genuine pathos.
The film satirizes Japan's 'herbivore men' phenomenon — young males rejecting traditional masculine aggression while still being obsessed with sexual conquest as status.
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