Even though Takeo knows that his wife, Akemi, is having an affair with her boss, the department manager, Samejima, he goes about his days pretending not to know. One day, Takeo wakes up in a hospital room after getting into a traffic accident and is shocked to see the face of nurse Hiromi. Hiromi was even better than her colleague Yuko...
Production
Maximum melodrama on a shoestring budget.
Costume
Nurse uniforms doing heavy lifting, cinematically speaking.
Director
Daikei Shimizu
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pink films (pinku eiga) flourished in Japan from the 1960s-80s as low-budget exploitation cinema, though modern iterations like this 2018 entry often carry deliberate camp and self-awareness.
Director Daikei Shimizu also plays Samejima, meaning he directed his own on-screen affair scenes—a recursive layer of voyeurism that mirrors the film's themes.
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