Rinko Tatsumi, the wife, played by Asuka Kurosawa, Shigehiko, the husband, played by Yuji Kohtari, and photographer Iguchi, played by director Shinya Tsukamoto. The wife and husband are typical Japanese office workers. His wife, Rinko, works in a psychological counseling room in a hospital, while her husband is a workaholic with a clean obsession. Their lives seem to be plain, but in fact there are hidden dangers. One day, Rinko received an anonymous letter that said "Your Husband's Secret" on the envelope, but when she opened the envelope curiously, she was surprised to find that all the envelopes contained pictures of herself masturbating. Her life is being watched! Subsequently, Rinko began to receive calls from a strange man who claimed to have gotten Rinko's help to get out of the predicament of trying to commit suicide. He's not extorting money from Rinko, his only request is for Rinko to do what she wants. The odd request made Rinko "call the police." But in the end, Rinko gave up. The mysterious man asked Rinko to take off her panties, put on a very short mini skirt, and went to the adult store to buy the largest female masturbator, and then instructed her step by step through the city. It would be a big mistake to press the "stop" button after seeing this, and think that the film is a perverted film that takes a peek into the lives of women for fun. In fact, the photographer Iguchi was a cancer patient, and he judged from his knowledge of cancer that the heroine Rinko Tatsumi, like him, also suffered from cancer, The basis of Rinko and Shigehiko's indifferent and numb relationship is their inability to express and communicate desires, yet the instinct of the body shakes them with a powerful force that becomes the calling of life. Cinematographer Iguchi uses her own methods to make Rinko find herself again and regain her confidence in life, and the discord between her and her husband is resolved at the end of the film, finally forcing them to rediscover and build their marriage. It can be said that the film starts from a perverted start and ends with a touching ending. In this 77-minute film, Tsukamoto Shin also used a lot of erotic images to express Rinko's gradually recovering sexual desire and physical pleasure, but he was by no means to provide sensual pleasure and stimulation to the audience. What they present is actually the psychological loneliness and even the mutated state of mind of the urbanites (in my personal opinion, it refers more to the urbanites of the Japanese country). Shinya Tsukamoto, through his own role as the photographer, turns the audience's attention from the protagonists' sexual thirst to their spiritual needs. He did not deliberately render pornography and perversion, but he used these elements to strung the entire film, which is the genius of the film.
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