Underwear Affair

2010 0h 30m JA

Synopsis

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In a present, Asako, a housewife, lives with her 5-year-old son in a country side, separated from her husband who runs kindergarden. When she was young, she lives with her mother and young sister in a tiny and dirty apartment. A scar on her thigh, underwear, smell of those places... One day, those elements of her two different times comes cross strangely.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Tomono Kuga
Yoriko Takahashi
Yuriko Ono
Takashi Yamanaka
Kanako Higashi
Mayuri Hirose
Go Ayano

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Yukiko Sode
Writers: Yukiko Sode
Languages: Japanese
Countries: Japan

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RUNTIME

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Tight 30-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.

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ERA

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Released 16 years ago.

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RUNTIME

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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CAST

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Tomono Kuga and Yuriko Ono and Takashi Yamanaka carry the top of the cast.

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WILD

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IMDB entry: tt1721122 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Yukiko Sode directs. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Japan. Dialogue in Japanese.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Tight 30-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
2Released 16 years ago.
3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
4Tomono Kuga and Yuriko Ono and Takashi Yamanaka carry the top of the cast.
5IMDB entry: tt1721122 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.