Your mom's midlife crisis just got chemically enhanced and VERY chaotic.
Mutsumi catches her husband cheating on her daughter. I witnessed it with Risa. Risa gets angry and runs away from home, and the heartbroken Mutsumi accidentally takes a drug developed by the suspicious inventor Tanokura that restores her youthful energy.
Practical Effects
The 'youth serum' effects are gloriously low-budget
Production
70 minutes of pure pink film economy storytelling
Director
Minoru Kunizawa
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Minoru Kunizawa has been a pink film veteran since the 1990s, specializing in exactly this kind of compressed melodrama.
Pink films (pinku eiga) historically allowed Japanese filmmakers creative freedom within strict budget/runtimes—this 70-minute format is tradition, not limitation.
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