The read
It runs a compact 1h 0m.
Synopsis
The story of two men, one middle aged one mid twenties, who make friends and exchange cigarettes and stories of their sex lives, unaware they have unwittingly exchanged partners. The story, told in flashbacks, as the two men travel through the night on a motorcycle, is loaded with highly charged eroticism. Sex and violence are juxtaposed against the drabness of the men's everyday lives, effectively blurring the line between what is real and what is fantasy. Founded on the well-known myth of furtive sexual gropers on the rush-hour Tokyo commuter trains, Tandem is a low-key masterpiece of Japanese Pink Cinema.
Ratings
IMDb5.6/10
8 audience votes
Key crew
- Masahiro KobayashiScreenplay
- Toshiki SatōDirector
- Isao YamadaOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Daikei ShimizuInoue Kazuma
- Mineo SugiuraShinichi Kosaka
- Takeshi ItōShinichi's lover
- Hotaru HazukiShinichi's partner
- Yuri IshiharaNobuko
- Maya OugiInoue's wife Yumiko
- Hitomi TakanoTrain victim
- Shigeo KatsuyamaMan on bicycle
- Yoshiaki SaseWaiter
Stills
Themes
sexploitationsoftcorepink filmgroper train