Tandem

Tandem

1994 · 60 min · ★ 4.2 · Drama

The story of two men, one middle aged one mid twenties, who make friends and exchange cigarettes and stories of their sex lives, unaware they have unwittingly exchanged partners. The story, told in flashbacks, as the two men travel through the night on a motorcycle, is loaded with highly charged eroticism. Sex and violence are juxtaposed against the drabness of the men's everyday lives, effectively blurring the line between what is real and what is fantasy. Founded on the well-known myth of furtive sexual gropers on the rush-hour Tokyo commuter trains, Tandem is a low-key masterpiece of Japanese Pink Cinema.

Directed by Toshiki Satō · Written by Masahiro Kobayashi

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Daikei Shimizu Inoue Kazuma
Mineo Sugiura Shinichi Kosaka
Takeshi Itō Shinichi's lover
Hotaru Hazuki Shinichi's partner
Yuri Ishihara Nobuko
Maya Ougi Inoue's wife Yumiko
Hitomi Takano Train victim
Shigeo Katsuyama Man on bicycle
Yoshiaki Sase Waiter

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