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Teacher Sakiko is called to the police to vouch for one of her
students, Sueko, who was booked for drugs and prostitution - which is not
entirely accurate, because she didn't take any money for it by the way.
Sakiko can't remember any Sueko at first, but gradually memories come back
from her year as an intern in a mining village, where she apparently
taught Sueko ... and was eventually raped by Sueko's dad Nomoto, who was
later arrested for it though. Sueko seems to hold no grudge though, on the
contrary, she tries to become Sakiko's best friend ... and then Sakiko
learns she wrongly accused Nomoto for the crime, the real rapist was
captured several months later and Nomoto was released - but his life was
destroyed. Sakiko now wants to make amends, wants to give Nomoto or his
family all her savings - which she knows isn't much but all she can give -
but nobody will accept it, all claim they have long forgiven her, after
all, it was an honest mistake, and she was the victim of a crime herself. It's
only when Sakiko witnesses Nomoto hitting another man over the head with a
stone and then running away that she knows how to make amends, and to keep
him out of the clutches of the police, she takes him out of town to a
mountain resort - where he almost dies. Eventually, Sueko catches up with
them, and the two women nurse Nomoto back to health. Then he wants to kill
himself, and Sakiko sees it her duty to join him ... but they both fail,
upon which they are having sex. Then Sueko and Nomoto join a travelling
theatre group because Sueko has fallen in love with one of the actors, and
Sakiko has finally made peace with a dark chapter of her past. One
of the examples of roman porn that was pushed into production
mainly because of its many sex scenes (details irrelevant to the plot:
Sakiko is mostly horny as is her boyfriend, and Sueko is a nymphomaniac),
but the cast and crew are all eager to make something more than another
fuckfest, something based on a profound narrative with an interesting structure to it. But what sounds very commendable in theory is
considerably less so when brought to screen: Actually, the story seems
over-constructed and oftentimes forced, and whatever message the film
might have been supposed to carry gets somehow lost in its over-ambitious
narrative structure. That said, the movie is far from a trainwreck, the
direction is subtle enough, the cast us uniformly pretty good, and let's
face it, the sex scenes are really hot.
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