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Audiences rate it 12 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
Satsuki and Takuya are high school students who meet at kendo practice, where they bash one another with wooden swords. They begin an awkward romance, but Takuya soon reveals a masochistic side to his desires. He has been stealing Satsuki's soiled clothing and secretly surveilling her while imagining her subjugation of him. Disgusted, Satsuki rejects him but he persists, and she discovers her own pleasure in manipulating and humiliating him.
Ratings
IMDb6.9/10
Metacritic57/100
Audiences rate it 12 points higher than critics do.
32 audience votes
Key crew
- Akihiko ShiotaDirector
- Shinsuke HondaOriginal Music Composer
- Akihiko ShiotaWriter
- Yōichi NishiyamaWriter
Cast
- Kenji MizuhashiTakuya Hidaka
- TsugumiSatsuki Kitahara
- Kōta KusanoTadashi Uematsu
- Harumi InoueShizuka Kitahara
- Chika FujimuraRika
- Kei MarimuraCast
- Kiriko ShimizuCast
- Yoshiki SekinoKengo Maruyama
- Shino AizawaCast
- Chika FujimuraSatsuki's Friend
- Ako KawakamiCast
- Sachiko ShinozakiCast
Stills
Themes
sadismfetishismmasochismhigh school studentyoung love