Tsuyoshi Takahashi

2005 release

Although Sunichi was a father who has grown his son and Hiroshi with one man, he thought Hiroshi was a roner but no mother was able to have a mother. Sunichichi decided to welcome a new wife and Yuoko. Yuko resembles the deceased of Sunichi, or Hiroshi's mother. Hiroshi was dapper when he looked at Yuko in the bath. And I remembered jealous...

Suzuko, who runs a slot machine parlor with her father, is approached by Yoko, a financial company employee, who wants to buy the parlor. Suzuko challenges Yoko's dirty tactics to a gamble with Sanpei, a living legend in the slot machine world.

Naoko Ishikawa, a Japanese history teacher, is assigned to a dilapidated high school in a sparsely populated area. In the lifeless town, where no young people are to be seen, only the elderly. Naoko is welcomed by the vice-principal, Wada and the guidance counselor, Ikegami. Naoko's welcome party is held at Ikegami's house. His elderly father, Tadashi, is the town mayor, and Naoko is surprised by the youth of his wife, Asami. At the party, Naoko is given cloudy local sake to drink. Soon, Naoko's consciousness becomes hazy, and she is carried to the bedroom where she is subjected to the lewd caresses of men... The next day, Naoko wakes up in her room and cannot determine whether what happened last night was a dream or reality. Enduring a hangover headache, Naoko goes to school. In Naoko's class, there is a student named Kinoshita. When Kinoshita suddenly starts acting violently in the classroom, a female student, Misato,says, "He's sick."

A beautiful woman marries a wealthy man, who for years chose to be a bachelor inspite of numerous female suitors. At first the marriage is perfect; he’s a loving husband and an enthusiastic lover. But soon the romance cools and the wife discovers that it has to do with a secret kept in the attic, something – or someone – he visits every night, that is changing him from a loving husband into a stranger… Akira Fukamachi directs this erotic and atmospheric drama.