Sexual Drive (2021)

Directed by

Kōta Yoshida

Genre

comedy, drama

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 10m

Rated

PG12

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 33 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This Japanese anthology film presents three stories about people whose desires and obsessions become tangled with specific foods. Each segment uses a different dish as a central metaphor for psychological fixation.

darkly comicunsettlingcerebralabsurdistprovocativeunevenstylized

What happens

Sexual Drive is a 2021 Japanese anthology film written and directed by Kōta Yoshida. The film is a black comedy triptych that explores human desire, sexuality, and psychological obsession through the recurring metaphor of food—specifically natto, mapo tofu, and ramen. It stars Manami Hashimoto, Ryo Ikeda, Honami Satō, Mukau Nakamura, Tateto Serizawa, Shogen and Rina Takeda. The film had its world premiere in the Big Screen Competition at the 50th International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) on 4 February 2021, and was theatrically released in Japan by Shaiker on 29 April 2022. In the United States it was released by Film Movement in virtual cinemas and on VOD on 22 April 2022. Fortissimo Films handles worldwide sales of Sexual Drive, which screened at a number of international festivals including the Taipei Golden Horse Fantastic Film Festival, the Moscow International Film Festival, New Horizons International Film Festival, the Hong Kong Summer International Film Festival, the Fantasia International Film Festival, the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Offscreen Film Festival in Brussels, Asian Film Festival Barcelona and the Seoul International Food Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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