Tokyo X Erotica, トーキョー エロティカ (2001) dir. Takahisa Zeze
What lasts longer, the time before birth or the time after death In the 1990 s, Kenjo (Ishikawa Yuichi) dies in a terrorist gas attack. His girlfriend Haruka (Sasaki Yumeka) is killed by a man she meets as a street prostitute. In 2002, Kenji and Haruka who should already be dead, meet again and a new story begins. .. TOKYO X EROTICA is a fascinating example of the pink avant garde from the Japanese underground; it transcends the confines and limitations of hardcore pornography and mere sexploitation, and stands as a provocative, surreal, and kinky meditation on the subjects of sex, time, pornography, cinema, and most prominently death
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