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Moonlight Whispers(月光の囁き)

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Japan · 1999
Rated R · 1h 37m
Director Akihiko Shiota
Starring Kenji Mizuhashi, Tsugumi, Kôta Kusano, Harumi Inoue
Genre Drama, Romance

Satsuki (Tsugumi) and Takuya (Kenji Mizuhashi) are high school students who meet at kendo practice, where they bash one another with wooden swords. They begin an awkward romance, but Takuya soon reveals a masochistic side to his desires. He has been stealing Satsuki's soiled clothing and secretly surveilling her while imagining her subjugation of him. Disgusted, Satsuki rejects him -- but he persists, and she discovers her own pleasure in manipulating and humiliating him.

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New Times (L.A.) by Andy Klein

Except for a few slow patches, the movie is compulsively watchable: You keep waiting to see just how sick things are going to get.

50

The New York Times by Dana Stevens

There's a little more sex than you'll see on WB, but mostly there's an atmosphere of brooding psychodrama and erotic cruelty that falls somewhere between "Cries and Whispers" and "Say Anything."

50

Village Voice by Dennis Lim

This dreamy, languorous farce offers a manageable strawberry-flavored alternative, a mildly kinky Hello Kitty sadomasochism.

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