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Yumi Yoshiyuki is one of the best-known and most popular women directors working in the pink film industry today, but it is interesting to contrast her approach with that of the genre’s most prolific, Sachi Hamano. Certainly, it is easier to detect a woman’s presence behind the camera in the films of Yoshiyuki, which often centre on the conflicting hopes and desires of modern-day city girls caught between the expectations of parents and society and their own dreams of emotional fulfilment and stability and independence.
In this not-atypical offering, newlywed Misaki finds herself newly-widowed when her long-term sweetheart
Yumi Yoshiyuki is one of the best-known and most popular women directors working in the pink film industry today, but it is interesting to contrast her approach with that of the genre’s most prolific, Sachi Hamano. Certainly, it is easier to detect a woman’s presence behind the camera in the films of Yoshiyuki, which often centre on the conflicting hopes and desires of modern-day city girls caught between the expectations of parents and society and their own dreams of emotional fulfilment and stability and independence.
In this not-atypical offering, newlywed Misaki finds herself newly-widowed when her long-term sweetheart Kenichi is killed in a car accident shortly after their marriage. As the first anniversary of his death draws near, she is visited by a psychic claiming to carry a message from Kenichi from beyond the grave, beseeching her to take over the management of the Sunrise Villa apartments, which have been run by his parents after his death. Taking the psychic’s message to heart, Misaki takes to her new role as a landlady like a duck to water as she moves in under the same roof as a set of very demanding tenants.
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