Guilty of Romance. I've bummed up Sion Sono a lot here recently but I found this one a bit disappointing. It just didn't come together for me the way Love Exposure and Cold Fish did. The murder angle never creates enough tension, the love hotel/pornography stuff becomes ever more screechy and unbelievable (especially the guy in the Peter Cook outfit of bowler hat and raincoat who enjoys bursting balloons of pink paint over his conquests). As a result I found myself not caring enough about the characters or the central whodunnit. Still, the film is plenty watchable though, and there's no getting around this, the lead actress has the most incredible breasts I've ever seen - the director obviously agrees as he can't take his camera off them. Maybe herein lies the problem with the movie - side pleasures become the main attraction. Just remembered that piddling scene near the end - now that was weird!
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