ROMAN PORNO 50th ANNIVERSARY

[lampard07]

Nikkatsu has released three new films for the 50th anniversary of the Roman Porno series, two of which, according to the review, have very explicit scenes. These are the films of Daigo Matsui "Hands" (jap: 手) and Shusuke Kaneko "The Sound of Lilac Rain" (jap: 百合 の 雨 音). I will be grateful for all information about these films.

ロマンポルノ50周年記念プロジェクト「ROMAN PORNO NOW」2022年公開

昭和、平成を駆け抜け、遂に令和で50年ー。今年で、ロマンポルノ50周年！時代の「今」を切り取った新企画が始動！

www.nikkatsu-romanporno.com

 

[godmod]

From Letterboxd:

The Roman Porno Now series ends with this and this is for me the second best. As the other two, it's really graphic for this kind of movie, has plenty of sex scenes, but it's the most serious and he the most to say about society, sexual harassment, cheating, sexless couples and homosexuality. And filling a cheap sex movie with these topics is obviously a smart move, because you get the message to the people who need to hear it (horny old guys who go to see it, because they need some tiddies in their sad life). Besides that, it sometimes looks like a cheap sex film (it's up to you whether or not it's a good point, I preferred the other two visually), isn't as fun as 愛してる, the guy in the story is incredibly disgusting, it actually acknowledges the pandemic and it's delivers much better according to it's premise than Hand did (which, in my opinion, had the more interesting idea, but fell quite flat later). Still very good, solid second place in this series and overall I think Nikkatsu did pretty well, putting these three films together. Two more would have been nice, so I guess I'll have to watch more of the old stuff.

Excellent finale to the Roman Porno reboot series. Kaneko Shusuke returns to his roots in Nikkatsu, and it's quite different from some of his other work in the field. It's much more explicitly sentimental and has a rather subdued scope throughout, which contrasts greatly with some of his more free-wheeling and playful films like Wet and Swinging and I'm All Yours (as well as some of his scripts he wrote for Nikkatsu).

Kaneko's characterization of Hazuki reveals her particularly affecting desolation that's present in virtually all her interactions with coworkers and clients. What pierces through this blanketing gloom and perceived dissociation is the way she looks at her boss, Shiori. Her desiring gaze might be a typical feature in these narratives, but Kaneko's direction and the lead's performance gives it weight, gifts it with a striking realism. From their first interaction together as Hazuki looks on fawningly at Shiori's brilliant red dress, a distinctly suppressed desire seems to resurface.

The source of that suppressed desire becomes a formalist point for Kaneko, as his depictions of the past through flashbacks flesh out the present in significantly expressive ways, revealing Hazuki's burgeoning desire as a school girl and the effects of her surroundings as they all reaffirm a perceived abnormality in identity. Again, these are typical narrative features, but the photography captures these flashbacks in such a way to beautifully establish and emphasize their subject's desire and its relationship to the environment in which Hazuki lives--a social or natural environment. Anxieties and misgivings of her own subjectivity of course pervade in the way she conducts herself in the office, but also in the titular rain as a instinctive response to the echoes from the past that reverberate in each raindrop.

In such a simple story, there's a richness to Shiori's and Hazuki's relationship that I feel captures the sensitivity and insight that Matsui Daigo's Hand (the first entry into the reboot series) attempts at discovering in its romance but can never find. Kaneko maps these points of desire and navigates them from one hotel room to another, one memory to another, all in service to the self-discovery and, meaningfully, the self-possession of each character that I think the best of these erotica could ever hope to accomplish.

 

[lampard07]

I was looking for this to download or watch online but didn't find it. Maybe some of you know if you can watch it online?

 

[master96]

Still nothing? I don't have any new info