Raw Summer
– A middle-aged businessman has become unhealthily obsessed with a schoolgirl with whom he shares his ..
28 Jan 2005
Japanese
Keisuke Yoshida
Keisuke Yoshida (original screenplay)
Sora Aoi, Yutaka Mishima, Nahoko Amahisa, Ayako Hirai
Masuo is a hapless salaryman: squat, homely, with receding hairline and few social graces. He lives with his parents and looks older than he is. He has masturbatory fantasies about Anko, a schoolgirl who rides the same train as he. Pictures of her fill his wall. His sister and her boyfriend encourage him to tell Anko how he feels; otherwise, they say, he's a stalker and a pervert. Masuo puts a transmitter in a teddy bear and contrives to give it to Anko along with a note. Now that he has ceased to be anonymous, how will he handle her response? Is the film an examination of a culture's tolerance for older male fantasy and younger female passivity or just the story of one loser?