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Sad and Painful Search: Office Lady Essay (2000)

Sad and Painful Search: Office Lady Essay poster
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

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.

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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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