A man gropes women on trains. They moan in ecstasy. His girlfriend calls the cops. Art film or exploitation? You decide.
Jun has come to Tokyo from his family home, an island which resembles a ship. He works in a machine shop and is attempting to develop a career as a cartoonist in his spare time. When he travels around the town by subway, he has grown into the habit of groping female passengers in a sexual way. They never denounce him, and many seem to respond very favorably, moaning in apparent ecstasy. However, when his girlfriend sees him doing this, she denounces him to the police.
Direction
Yokoyama walks a razor's edge between art and provocation.
Cinematography
Tokyo subway as liminal, erotic dreamscape.
Director
Hiroto Yokoyama
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of 1980s Japanese 'pink cinema' that used softcore frameworks for existential urban alienation—think Tsukamoto's Tetsuo but hornier and sadder.
Yokoyama never made another feature; some critics read Jun as deliberate self-immolation of a career, the director indicting himself through his protagonist.
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