Sad and Painful Search: Office Lady Essay (2000)

- Original title
- せつなく求めて OL編
- Directed by
- Tarō Araki
- Genre
- pornographic film, pink film
- Country
- Japan
- Runtime
- 1h
- Rating
- 2.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb

The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A Japanese pink film about an office lady navigating desire and loneliness. The story follows her emotional and physical search for connection.
eroticmelancholicintimaterealisticfocusedemotionalunderstated
What happens
Sad and Painful Search: Office Lady Essay (せつなく求めて OL編, Setsunaku motomete: OL hen) is a 2000 Japanese Pink film directed by Tarō Araki. It was chosen as Best Film of the year at the Pink Grand Prix ceremony. Tomohiro Okada was given the Best Actor award and cinematographer Shōji Shimizu was also awarded for his work on the film at the ceremony. Writer-actress, Yumi Yoshiyuki wrote and directed a sequel to the film released in July of the same year, Sad and Painful Search II: Housewife Essay (せつなく求めてII 人妻編, Setsunaku motomete II: hitozuma hen). Yoshiyuki starred in the sequel which included AV idol Yumika Hayashi. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Older Office Lady: Using Her Seductive Tongue (2005)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.