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Asami (Asami Ogawa) is your typical good girl, a girl who works at the
office by day and takes care of her daddy (Michio Hino) at night, a dad
that even tries to marry her off, just so she has a happy life and isn't
stuck with him for the rest of her life. Komako (Aoi Nakajima) on the
other hand is the office slut, though it's hard to tell if she has the
reputation because every man hits on her, or every man hits on her because
of her reputation. All Komako longs for is a normal family, but she has
none. Then Asami invites her home, and when Komako arrives there ahead of
Asami and meets her father, who has cooked for her, she almost breaks out
in tears of joy, and before you know it, the two decide to open a
restaurant together, fall in love, then daddy proposes to Komako and she
accepts ... Asami though isn't quite the good girl she pretends to be,
she has an affair with her boss, an affair that is mainly based on sex
(the boss is married and has 3 children). And when Asami is to meet her
husband-to-be's (Tamaki Komiyama) family, she pretends to go on a toilet
break to have sex with her boss, and lately tells hubby-to-be off rather
rudely. Then though she falls in love with a poor chick-vendor, follows
him home to his place and has sex with him. It's only after that that she
realizes how empty her affair with her boss is, and she ditches him on a
romantic weekend together, even if she has to endure him raping her as a
result. When she returns to the chick-vendor's place though, she finds him
gone, and all that he left behind is a single chick ... Marketed
primarily on its sexual content, this is actually more of a quiet drama on
relationships in a modern, depersonalized society - that's not nearly as
pretentious as this may sound, but works very well thanks to a subtle and
intelligent approach to its subject, unexcited but refined storytelling,
and (I admit it) well-placed sex scenes to keep things flowing. The result
might not exactly be a genre classic, but a pretty good film nevertheless.
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