Koi no tsumi

2011 [JAPANESE]

Action / Drama / Horror / Romance / Thriller

46
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 67% · 18 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 60% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.8/10 10 6493 6.5K

tokyo, japan prostitution novelist police investigation pink film husband wife estrangement

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Plot summary

While police investigate a woman found dead in a derelict love hotel, a romance novelist's wife lives a life that seems simply a daily repetition without romance. To escape the loveless monotony, she follows her desires and becomes a nude model. Soon, she meets a mentor and begins selling her body to strangers, while at home, she hides behind the façade of the doting wife.

Director

Sion Sono Photo
Sion Sono

Top cast

Hisako Ôkata Photo
Hisako Ôkata as Shizu Ozawa
Ryûju Kobayashi Photo
Ryûju Kobayashi as Kaoru
Miki Mizuno Photo
Miki Mizuno as Kazuko Yoshida
Megumi Kagurazaka Photo
Megumi Kagurazaka as Izumi Kikuchi
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU
1.3 GB
1280*682
Japanese 2.0
18
Subtitles
23.976 fps
2 hr 24 min
Seeds 7
2.42 GB
1920*1024
Japanese 2.0
18
Subtitles
23.976 fps
2 hr 24 min
Seeds 28

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by R T 7 / 10

After watching this movie and reading every review

After watching this movie and reading every review about it that I can find, I'm still not sure what to make about this film. On the surface its very easy to understand: women find their power from sex... meaning they have the power to choose who they sleep with and how that event transpires. So a bored housewife descends into "hell" by choice, by cheating on her husband and eventually becoming a prostitute. This sounds pretty misogynistic, but I know full well that Sono is making the opposite point. Hence I don't know how to get from point a to point b. And every review fails to even attempt to give an understanding of what transpired. Heck, I'm still not totally sure what the murder investigation(s) had to do with the above. This is obviously begging for a repeat viewing, but I'm scared I'll be no closer to an explanation of the layered meaning of this movie. It's both frustrating and amazing. Part of the reason I struggled with the meaning was because of Megumi Kagarazaka... holy shit is she ever beautiful. She's so gorgeous that she's actually a distraction! No lie. I will watch every movie she's ever been in. I can't get enough of her.
Reviewed by ill 3 9 / 10

What's incredible about this trilogy is that Sion

What's incredible about this trilogy is that Sion Sono manages to captivate the viewer without resorting to gratuitous gore. His films are highly exaggerated, rich in nuance and symbolism, but they succeed wonderfully in offering an experience that is at once disturbing, philosophical, and thrilling, something very few films manage to do. This trilogy is truly unmissable and may make most of the movies you'll see after feel flat.
Reviewed by acsdoug D 8 / 10

The film has a couple of problems. It's

The film has a couple of problems. It's too long for one thing and overuses analogies to enhance the story (the poem is more annoying than insightful, you'll see what I mean). Still, it's weird and unusual in a good way, I liked it.
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