Acting
This anthology film brings together a diverse group of directors at the call of actress Hotaru, who also works as a film director. It consists of five short films.
I’m just an ordinary lad, but I’ve suddenly come down with something called ‘delayed ejaculation with genital congestion’. Before, mine was a very ordinary M-size at best. But now it’s so huge it’s downright creepy. The incredibly sexy female doctor says, ‘It’s a legendary rare condition, so I’m not entirely sure—but maybe having sex might temporarily cure it?’, as if it were someone else’s problem. Oh my God! I’m not bragging, but I’ve got neither money nor women—what on earth am I supposed to do?
After the death of his wife, Yukio has become more and more paranoid, believing that he is being followed and watched at all times. Yukio's late wife, before her death, was seeing and sleeping with another man. Not only did Yukio know about the affair, he would watch them have sex. Unbeknownst to his wife, his peeping on her became like a fetish. As the film progresses, Yukio goes to see a counselor to try and figure out his phobia and discover his deep repressed thoughts about his wife. In comes Akemi, Yukio's ex-girlfriend from almost a decade prior. Akemi is unhappy with her marriage and seeks the warm embrace of Yukio, which only furthers his descent into madness.
Set in the final years of Japan's shogunate, all characters from the main series, Silent Mobius, appear with the same name. According to the setting, they are said to be the previous lives of the characters in the main story...
Keiko, a lonely single woman living in Tokyo, is taking the elevator up to her apartment one day when a couple of young thugs suddenly appear. They immediately assault her, dragging her into a stairwell and taking photographs of her in the throes of her ordeal. She leads them to an apartment inhabited by Miho, a woman she often sees in the building. The men burst in and, after repeatedly beating Miho’s partner, subject both women to endless rape and degradation. In the midst of their mutual torment, the hatred that Keiko and Miho share for each other explodes, revealing them both to be as ruthless as their captors.
Pink film distributed by Shintoho Pictures.
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Pink film produced by Xces films.
A middle-aged man walks up to young man who is sitting under a tree and shoots him. The film then flashes back to 1981, where a young woman steals a car with a baby strapped inside. She decides to raise the child as her own, and teaches him to shoplift from stores while she works as a prostitute. She strikes up a relationship with a convenience-store clerk, and the two eventually settle down together.
Kiriko is a beautiful woman working in a quiet hot spring town. The owner of the inn, Goro, is attracted to her beauty and asks her out, but she refuses. Meanwhile, Imai, a detective staying at the inn, recognizes Kiriko's face and investigates her past on his own.
Pink film directed by Kunihiko Matsuoka.
Asako and Tomoko, who live next door to each other in a certain apartment complex, are housewives who frequently chat with each other. Asako, who is on good terms with her husband, Keiji, tells Tomoko about their nightly activities, and Tomoko, who is in a lull with her husband, Shinpei, envies her for it. One day, Keiji and Shinpei, who had never even exchanged greetings before, happen to hit it off and go out for a drink together. There they meet a pair of office workers...
A former detective vows revenge on those who caused his daughter's suicide
Asako, who has been married for eight years and has no children, is dissatisfied with her husband who comes home late every night, but she lives peacefully with him after he stops his unfaithful habit. However, a man she meets at a bowling alley with her neighbor Michiko and a beautiful woman who Asako's husband is interested in, cause changes in their lives.
Nakamoto, who works at a real estate agency, enters a vacant apartment without permission and begins to peep into it. By chance, he finds an apartment building where a TV reporter lives, and eventually starts playing pranks on the phone. One day, the woman comes to Nakamoto's real estate store as a customer .......
Screenwriter Omori is shown snuff photos of young women as reference material for his script, and the memory of his sister Tomoko's rape and murder comes back to him. Omori gradually finds himself becoming sexually aroused by the snuff photos, and is overcome with the desire to rape actress Reiko, who looks just like his sister Tomoko...
It's a tribute to The Doors, but it's not just a tribute to them, it's also a criticism of rock stars who die too easily.
Setsuo is a single man in his thirties with no future prospects, no relationships with women, and lives alone. Sometimes, while working overtime, he fantasizes about his coworker Hiromi. But his days change when he starts living with Yaoko. When Yaoko tries to commit suicide on the beach, Setsuo saves her. But just as they get used to living together like a married couple, a man who claims to be Yaoko's relative arrives...
Men are rotten. Women wander. Lost souls reconnect.
Based on the comic book series by Mio Murao.
