Helpless and Reckless

The twenty-eighth entry in the "Youth H" series, which produces works in a variety of genres from up-and-coming filmmakers that focus on coming-of-age and sexual themes. Director Oguri Haruhi, who drew attention for his Toilet and Women, depicts the growth of four young men who reunite when their close friend dies. High school graduate Chikage (Tanaka Ryuto) spends his days hanging around with his best pal Aki (Nagata Iemori) at a seaside town. One day their close friend En dies in an accident, and their old buddies Dai (Shiomi Daiki) and Beyan return from Tokyo for the funeral.

Itsuko Ogata still can't forget her crush in school, a boy with the same last name as her. She doesn't know where she buried the time capsule she made with Tamotsu 13 years ago, and is still searching for a place that may have been there.

Aika, a college student who has returned home during summer vacation, is delighted to see Haruna, Yankee, and Nana. All four grow up in families where premarital sex is prohibited. Four childhood friends with no sexual experience spend the summer trying to lose their virginity. Haruhi Oguri, the female director who was the first to challenge the pink film, vividly reflects the sexuality and life of women with different complexes and habits, and this work of her was highly praised.

Erotic work about the love sought by a love-struck young lady. Orica, a young lady living in a mansion, is a romantic who cannot live without the person she loves. She is undeniably beautiful and at first loves a man who is a magician, but when she loses him, Orika loses her heart too. Eventually she met a man who was a lumberman, but he also left her, and next Orika fell in love with a doctor. Orica sacrifices her ego to serve the doctor.

Kyoko Tsutsui is a 40-year-old woman who is always running away from work and love. Sasaki, a bartender and regular at the bar, has feelings for her, but she doesn't take him seriously. Then, suddenly, versions of herself at 20 and 30 appear...

Akai Taiyo has been lonely since her mother, her only blood relative, passed away a year ago. However, she has a cheerful personality that doesn't let that affect her, and her childhood friend Kotaro secretly has feelings for her. Then one day, Taiyo's father, Takashi, suddenly appears and persuades her to move in with his new family. However, her stepmother Yumiko and her half-daughter Momoka treat her like a housekeeper, and Momoka's fiance gives her lewd looks. To top it all off, Kotaro suddenly becomes close to Momoka...

Kaoru, who works at a cross-dressing cafe, is suddenly left without a place to live when his fiancé, Hayashitaro, who shows no understanding of Kaoru's hobby, announces that he wants to end their cohabitation. With no money and nowhere to go, Kaoru is saved by a shared house introduced to her by her colleague, Ruri. There she finds out that Yasumichi is living there, having escaped from his wife's constraints that "men should be strong." The two awkwardly begin to grow closer. (R15+ version premiered at the OP PICTURES+ Festival 2025).