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[A] sickening, lush mystery about two female corpses, each partly a severed human and partly a mannequin.
Miriam Bale, New York Times
Overview
While police investigate a woman found dead in a derelict love hotel, a romance novelist's wife lives a life that seems simply a daily repetition without romance. To escape the loveless monotony, she follows her desires and becomes a nude model. Soon, she meets a mentor and begins selling her body to strangers, while at home, she hides behind the façade of the doting wife.
Director and cast
- Sion Sono Director
- Makoto Togashi as Mitsuko Ozawa
- Megumi Kagurazaka as Izumi Kikuchi
- Miki Mizuno as Kazuko Yoshida
- Satoshi Nikaido as Masao Yoshida
- Kazuya Kojima as Shoji
- Kanji Tsuda as Yukio Kikuchi
- Ryuju Kobayashi as Kaoru
- Motoki Fukami as Eri Doi
- Hisako Ôkata as Shizu Ozawa
- Shingo Gotsuji as Kazuo Kimura
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
69%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Mostly, Guilty of Romance seems content allowing characters to verbally abuse each other before eventually reaching the inevitable conclusion that life is a burden and all love is illusory.
Pete Vonder Haar, Village Voice
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