A failed screenwriter gets a call from his ex's husband. What could go wrong? Everything, apparently.
Shinji, who has been writing a screenplay that is not going to be made into a movie, has a girlfriend who is a model. One day Shinji receives a call from the husband of his old lover Yoko, and goes to see her. When he meets Yoko again after five years, he cannot resist embracing her. A sensual film of love and jealousy, directed by and starring Kazuhiro Sano.
Direction
Sano directs himself being pathetic—bold choice, honestly.
Cinematography
Grimy 16mm that makes cheap motel rooms feel like tombs.
Director
Kazuhiro Sano
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pink films of the '90s often used exploitation budgets to fund genuinely experimental personal cinema—Sano was a master of this bait-and-switch.
Sano reportedly wrote this in three days after his own screenplay rejection, making Shinji's meta-misery uncomfortably autobiographical.
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