is a 1985 Japanese pink film in Nikkatsu's Roman porno series, directed by Shinji Sōmai and starring Noriko Hayami.
Synopsis When businessman Tetsuro Muraki has his company go bankrupt and his wife Ryoko is raped by gangsters who use her body to pay off his debts, he succumbs to despair. He hires a prostitute, Nami, to go with him to a love hotel with sex and suicide in mind.
Cast Minori Terada () as Tetsuro Muraki Noriko Hayami as Nami Tsuchiya Rie Nakagawa () as Masayo Ohta Kiriko Shimizu () as Ryoko Muraki Nobutaka Masutomi () as Kiyoshi Ohta Toshinori Omi () as the Assistant Director Kōichi Satō as the Taxi Driver
Background Although director Shinji Sōmai had worked for Nikkatsu in the 1970s and served as an assistant director, this film marked his only work in the Roman porno genre for Nikkatsu. The film was produced by the Directors's Company (), an association of young directors formed in 1982. The screenplay was the work of Takashi Ishii who would later rework the script for his directorial debut, the 1988 film Angel Guts: Red Vertigo.
Reception Jawni Han writing for Metrograph called the film a classic of the Roman Porno genre. Beatrice Loayza of The New York Times said that the director's "[...] exquisite visual compositions (of lonely bedrooms, concrete piers, and nocturnal courtyards) infuse even the film’s racy images with a somber sense of longing and introspection, finding beauty and humanity in the midst of the macabre."
Awards and nominations 7th Yokohama Film Festival Won: Best Film Won: Best Director - Shinji Sōmai Won: Best Screenplay - Takashi Ishii Won: Best Cinematography - Noboru Shinoda Won: Best Actor - Minori Terada
The film also won the Nikkatsu in-house award for Best Film of the Year.
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