Film adaptation of Yu Nakano's popular graphic novel serialized in Manga Bon magazine. A young beautician who works at a hairdresser's salon in the countryside dreams of becoming a first-class hairdresser. To follow her dream she goes to Tokyo to work as an apprentice stylist at a TV station.
Film adaptation of Yu Nakano's popular graphic novel serialized in Manga Bon magazine. A young beautician who works at a hairdresser's salon in the countryside dreams of becoming a first-class hairdresser. To follow her dream she goes to Tokyo to work as an apprentice stylist at a TV station.
1978-02-04
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The parallel fates of a few inhabitants of a strange planet : the world of Internet gay encounters...
Misako, dressed in black, sits on a chair at the podium and monitors her students' tests. Her husband, Shinichi, who is also a teacher, had just died the other day, but she had come to school to take an important exam for the third-year class he was teaching. When the test was over, she sat in a daze in front of her husband's portrait. The things that came back to her mind were the acts of love she had made with her husband. The days of her youth when she gave deep throating to Shinichi, her high school homeroom teacher. And the many passionate sex experiences they had after they got married. While thinking about these things, Misako puts her hand under the hem of her kimono...
After actress Satomi’s boyfriend Takuma breaks up with her, she starts dating a staff member named Onodera. At first, things go well, but the relationship quickly sours, and Satomi ends it. Afterward, Onodera meets Fusako through a smartphone app. Fusako is attracted to Onodera’s approach, and because she has a complex about her younger sister Rin’s extensive romantic experience, she begins to desire Onodera more and more. However, Onodera is only looking for something physical, and one day, while they are on a drive, he notices the change in Fusako and leaves her on the side of the road. After a long history of casual flings, Rin finally starts considering marriage, and Fusako agrees to marry Yoshio, a man she had originally rejected at her omiai matchmaking. Having previously felt a sense of superiority, Rin is now faced with humiliation and decides to find a husband no matter what.
Seizaburo, an elderly man hospitalized in a hospital, peeks at the beautiful nurse Noriko as she gets changed in the dressing room, but she finds out and chases him out. Noriko, outraged, consults the doctor about Seizaburo. However, he tells her that she is a lonely old man...
That morning, Rinko, who lives in Tokyo, sent her husband, Masanori Uemura, off to work as usual and was cleaning the house. Then she got a call from her husband's stepfather, Tokunobu, who lives in Shizuoka...
Shizuru is encouraged by Kaoru and Takako, who she meets at a class reunion, to join the "Second Wives Club," a club for celebrities, but it turns out to be a gathering of stepmothers who enjoy swapping their stepsons.
As Morimi Shizuka leisurely sips a hot drink at the front door, a masked office worker on his way to work coughs visibly as he passes by. Shizuka, a practicing doctor, lives with her father Shigeru (Iijima), a research doctor working at a university hospital, and her younger sister Mai, but there is no word on the whereabouts of the sisters' mother. Shigeru has been feeling unwell since the night before, and as she takes a morning bath, Mai blares out loud music with no thought for her father, leaving Shizuka speechless. Mai unilaterally tells her sister that she is bringing her boyfriend home that day, and although Shizuka is concerned about Shigeru, she goes to work. Morimi Clinic is run by Shizuka and nurse Hase Shu (Salmon). However, Shizuka does not at all betray the impression of being laid-back, and in fact, her mood accelerates.
Kaoru, who wants to be a photographer, is overworked as an assistant for a low salary. Misaki, a senior assistant, can't stand to see Kaoru crying after being bullied by the photographer, so she invites him to live with her. Kaoru soon falls in love with Misaki's younger brother Shinobu, and the three of them seem to be living together smoothly, but then Kaoru sees Misaki and Shinobu embracing each other...
Riona was in agony. It had been a week since her husband Takashi had gone on a reporting trip. There had been no news. Takashi, who worked for a first-class company, had been taking photos as a hobby, but one day his hobby was recognized and he became a magazine photographer. Once he went out to capture the fleeting expressions of nature in the mountains and the sea, there was no telling when he would return. Riona was beginning to get fed up with a life of simply waiting for Takashi.
Hiroshi and Yukiko met at a matchmaking party in China and got married. Yukiko, who is a Chinese national, was reluctant to go to Japan, but Hiroshi came to Japan because it was impossible for him to work in China because he could not speak Chinese. His younger brother Jiro and his wife Mineko live in his family home. A few days later, Jiro told Hiroshi that it would be better not to have children because Yukiko might be after his fortune...
Unhappy with her life with her husband, a university professor who only deals with numbers, Chitose begins a lesbian relationship with Harumi whom she meets again at a class reunion, and begins to treat her husband coldly. One day, Harumi cheats on her with another woman, and she tells him she wants to cut him off, but her husband continues to cheat on her, and she lives in regret. One day, Harumi attempts suicide, but it was all a farce so that she could meet Chitose. Chitose rushes to her and tells her she's had enough of men.
Shizuku and Tamami are geisha in Atami who are rivals at the same okiya (tea house). Shizuku is a miser who will use any tool necessary to get what she wants, including sex. On the other hand, Tamami believes in doing things the traditional way, with class. With opposing personalities, these two are always at each other’s throats. Tamami continues to blame herself for her mother’s suicide while Shizuku never knew parental love and doesn’t have good luck with men. Learning each other’s past, the two seem to have built a strong bond… that is until Kenzo, the event producer of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics comes to Atami. Kenzo will be making a movie about traditional Japanese culture for PR and would like to have either Shizuku or Tamami in it. Tamami sees this as an opportunity to fulfill her dead mother’s dreams, while Shizuku sees this as a path to getting rich. The two compete for who will get the contract for this dream opportunity.
Nagi meets a taciturn man named Goro and goes with him to a rooftop to commit a double suicide, but they decide to postpone their plan. With nowhere to go, they end up staying at a secluded cottage — but what awaits them as they pass each day without purpose and prolong the little time they have left…?
Michiru is a mysterious sex worker who visits a suburban motel once every year. In addition to her beautiful looks, she possesses a strange power: clients who have sex with her begin to perceive her as the woman they long for most.
Having lost her mother in a traffic accident one rainy day, Akari lives in a shared house with Sachi and Toshihiro, a married couple. With their relationship having grown cold, Toshihiro brings over his lover, Kasumi, while Sachi secretly takes in a homeless man, Ono, hoping to perform a good deed. On the other hand, Akari, despite putting on a cheerful and happy front, is consumed by a quiet yet intense state of hatred and anger. She longs for revenge on the person who killed her mother. One day, after finding a missing bag, Akari takes in an elderly woman named Sachiko, who has no remaining family and restores a sense of dignity to her life. With all these people living under one roof, Akari’s feelings slowly begin to change. However, something happens on Toshihiro’s birthday. What is the next level for Akari?
Jiro is staying at the apartment of Hidetsugu, a musician whom he regards as his big brother. Jiro admires and respects Hidetsugu's talent, but Hidetsugu has stopped his musical activities due to an injury and is bringing women into his room one after another...
Kiyokawa, who works at Tokyo Shoji, is timid and always tries to please his boss. When he finds out that Saito, the head of the accounting department, likes Hideko, the wife of tax accountant Sano, he gives him the idea that he can have sex with Hideko if they swap. Saito, who has a weakness for women, is intrigued and orders Kiyokawa to make the arrangements.
The next case the female lawyer takes on is a case of rape and assault involving a man who raped a victim while wearing a stocking over his head or hiding his face with a full-face helmet. Although she is a married woman, she has not had sex with her husband for quite some time, so the interrogation record is very stimulating for her. She falls asleep and dreams of being raped by a man wearing the same stockings. In this state, she meets the suspect for the first time...
One Sunday evening, Kyoko found a young man about to jump into the river. He told her that he was depressed because he hadn't been able to find a job. Kyoko brought him to her office where she would be working from the next day and had passionate sex on the desk. It continued until the morning...