A marriage crumbles by day, burns at night — Showa's farewell has never been this steamy.
The Showa period was ending and the era was about to change to the Heisei period. Newlyweds Chikage and Ryuhei argued over trivial matters, but at night they made up for it with sex.
Direction
Takehora captures era-change anxiety through cramped apartments.
Production
Authentic 1989 period detail on a pink film budget.
Director
Tetsuya Takehora
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pink films flourished during Japan's economic bubble burst, using eroticism to process national anxiety — this literalizes that metaphor by setting the action during the 1989 transition.
Director Takehora shot this in 8 days with borrowed Showa-era furniture from his parents' storage unit.
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