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Masako (Tomoko Katsura) works at a Turkish bath, which is little more
than a exotically-themed brothel of course. When she's not at work, she's
in a relationship with her annoyingly eccentric neighbour Honda (Ken
Yoshizawa), but because of his many whims, their relationship never finds
an emotional base and is mainly based on sex. Makoto (Hidetoshi
Katayama) is Honda's best friend, and also a male prostitute, serving
exclusively men and doing S/M performances as sub. But now, Makoto has
fallen in love with Chiko, a lovely young girl who is unaware of his
profession. She wants to have sex with him, but that drives him out of his
mind, because he has never been with a woman before and isn't even sure
about his sexuality. For their first night, he asks Honda to watch them
from the next room to give him some kind of security - something Honda
isn't exactly happy about because he anticipates the consequences, but
Makoto is his only friend and he can't turn a friend down. Still, Makoto
is unable to perform, and when Chiko catches Honda spying on them, she is
enraged and makes a hasty escape. Honda asks Masako to teach Honda how
to have sex with a woman, and while she doesn't want to, she also can't
turn down a friend. It takes Masako a whole day to get Makoto hard, and
when he finally succeeds in performing, it's only because Honda joins in
the fun. Chiko has another sex date with Makoto, and this time Honda
refuses to watch from the next room, as Makoto suggests, but instead waits
in the café downstairs. Again, Makoto is unable to perform, and when he
shouts out Honda's name in order to get into things, Chiko is nothing
short of shocked, and this time she leaves him for good - after which
Makoto throws himself out of a window to his death, landing pretty much
right in front of Honda, who's still waiting in the café. Devastated,
Honda visits Masako in the Turkish bath as a customer, and it's only there
they for the first time that they have passionate sex and he's able to
open to her emotionally ... An unusual pinku eiga (~ Japanese
sex movie) that deliberately changes moods several times during its
running time: It starts out as a light comedy, features sex scenes aplenty
(naturally), incorporates experimental and arthouse elements, and of
course eventually veers off into the direction of dark drama. Now all of
this might have resulted in an uneven patchwork that's just uncertain
which way to go, but actually the film remains remarkably coherent
throughout and the very different elements all seem to fall into place
rather effortlessly, and despite all of its ambitions, the film never
becomes preposterous. Recommended.
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