Film description

Katsu, an impulsive rebel, returns to his home town, hiding from yakuza. Even though the locals recognize him, he stubbornly refuses to reveal his identity and the dark secret from his past. He befriends the owner of the cinema where he starts working, and her three unusual friends. The behavior of the five of them challenges social norms. Their radical actions are balanced with austere, melancholic sea landscape, which enhances their emotional struggles.

A wild, oftentimes violent image of frustration, loneliness, and complex erotic relations, whose hypnotic frames became a part of the history of Japanese cinema. The nihilist narration and a disturbing portrait of the antihero bring to mind the poetics of the early films by Nagisa Oshima and other revolutionary filmmakers of the Japanese new wave.

One of the most renown Roman Porno titles, placed among 100 most important Japanese pictures of the 20th century by the prestigious film magazine Kinema Junpo.

Jagoda Murczyńska