Underplayed Gems

Dark Room (1983)

Dark Room poster
Original title
暗室
Directed by
Kirio Urayama
Genre
drama film, romance film
Country
Japan
Runtime
2h 02m
Rating
5.6 of 10 from 8 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A writer remembers events from over a decade ago when he was married to a beautiful woman named Keiko. He suspected his friend of having an affair with her and forced her to have several abortions. She died in a car accident that seemed like suicide. After her death, he drowned his grief in meaningless sex and gave up on marriage and fatherhood. Despite many women, he remains unsatisfied and unable to forget his wife.

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What happens

est un film érotique japonais réalisé par Kirio Urayama, sorti en 1983. À l'occasion de la rédaction de son nouvel ouvrage, "Un certain passé", le romancier Shuichi Nakata se remémore un événement intervenu plus de dix ans auparavant. Il était marié à une superbe femme, Keiko. Apprenti écrivain et obscur journaliste, il soupçonnait notamment son ami Yamanoi d'avoir couché avec elle. Contrainte par son époux, Keiko avorta plusieurs fois. Jusqu'au jour où elle décéda dans un accident de voiture qui a tout l'air d'un suicide. Dévasté et se sentant responsable de sa mort, libéré de sa jalousie primitive, Nakata noya son chagrin dans le sexe sans bonheur. Pour fuir tout sentiment de culpabilité, Nakata renonce pour toujours au mariage et à la paternité. Devenu libre, il se lance dans une quête obsessionnelle de sexe et raconte ses aventures sulfureuses dans un essai philosophique, "La chambre noire". De femme en femme, Nakata semble être insatisfait et incapable d'oublier son épouse défunte... (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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