A stray kitten, a broken woman, and a man who can't tell the difference between rescue and romance.
An entry in a series focused on "love" and "erotica," in which six creators from multiple fields - from film and TV to direct-to-video and manga - compete. The debut film by Director Ito Ippei who worked as an assistant director to Imaoka Shinji, it portrays the love between a real hottie who has the attractiveness to enslave men, and a pure-hearted man. Toda (Hiroshi) meets Haruna (Haruna Hana) who is in pain after being dumped. Toda sees similarities between Haruna and a stray kitten he saved that day, and hopes he will bump into the sad woman again someday. His wish comes true, but at an unexpected place.
Direction
Imaoka disciple brings art-house restraint to exploitation premises.
Cinematography
Tokyo nights shot like wet pavement memories.
Director
Ippei Itou
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pink films (pinku eiga) operate on shoestring budgets with mandatory nudity/sex scenes, yet spawned directors like Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Sion Sono. The genre's artistic respectability is... complicated.
Director Imaoka Shinji, Ito's mentor, pioneered 'pink art film'—using exploitation constraints to explore working-class melancholy. This debut carries that DNA but struggles to transcend its anthology-piece origins.
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