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禁忌

禁忌 poster
Directed by
Kōtarō Wajima
Country
Japan

How it feels

A math teacher who struggles with adult men has an affair with a female student and later hides a teenage boy in her home after her father is arrested for imprisoning the boy. She breaks off her engagement and develops a sexual relationship with the boy.

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What happens

『禁忌』(きんき)は2014年公開の日本映画作品。 成人男性が苦手な数学教師のヒロインは女生徒と関係し、婚約者がいるながら彼との性交後も体を念入りに洗う。交流が途絶えていた大学教授の父が少年を監禁していた容疑で逮捕され、その少年を自宅に匿い、少年と性関係を持つ。婚約者との関係を破棄する。そしてヒロインと少年の関係は…。 (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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