The read
Audiences rate it 12 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
While police investigate a woman found dead in a derelict love hotel, a romance novelist's wife lives a life that seems simply a daily repetition without romance. To escape the loveless monotony, she follows her desires and becomes a nude model. Soon, she meets a mentor and begins selling her body to strangers, while at home, she hides behind the façade of the doting wife.
Ratings
IMDb6.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes67%
Metacritic56/100
Audiences rate it 12 points higher than critics do.
248 audience votes
Key crew
- Sion SonoDirector
- Sion SonoWriter
- Yasuhiro MorinagaOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Makoto TogashiMitsuko Ozawa
- Megumi KagurazakaIzumi Kikuchi
- Miki MizunoKazuko Yoshida
- Satoshi NikaidoMasao Yoshida
- Kazuya KojimaShoji
- Kanji TsudaYukio Kikuchi
- Ryuju KobayashiKaoru
- Shingo GotsujiKazuo Kimura
- Motoki FukamiMartini Maki
- Marie MachidaMari
- Chika UchidaEri Doi
- Jyonmyon PeOkubo
Stills
Themes
tokyo, japanprostitutionnovelistpolice investigationpink filmhusband wife estrangementnude modelinglove hotelromantic thriller恋之罪