Guilty of Romance (2011)
Koi no tsumi
Love is hell.
144 min
While police investigate a woman found dead in a derelict love hotel, a romance novelist's wife lives a life that seems simply a daily repetition without romance. To escape the loveless monotony, she follows her desires and becomes a nude model. Soon, she meets a mentor and begins selling her body to strangers, while at home, she hides behind the façade of the doting wife.
- Release date
- May 18, 2011
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Box office
- $246,091
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Trailer
Cast
- Makoto Togashi as Mitsuko Ozawa
- Megumi Kagurazaka as Izumi Kikuchi
- Miki Mizuno as Kazuko Yoshida
- Satoshi Nikaido as Masao Yoshida
- Kazuya Kojima as Shoji
- Kanji Tsuda as Yukio Kikuchi
- Ryûju Kobayashi as Kaoru
- Shingo Gotsuji as Kazuo Kimura
- Motoki Fukami as Maki Martini
- Marie Machida as Mari
- Chika Uchida as Eri Doi
- Jyonmyon Pe as Okubo
- Tai Kageyama as Shinsuke Ozawa
- Hisako Ôkata as Shizu Ozawa
- Mae Otsuka as Mae Ohtsuka
- Ryô Iwamatsu as Supermarket Manager
- Cynthia Cheston as Prostitute
- Toshihiro Yashiba
- Runa Endo
- Akira Yamamoto
- Naoko Watanabe
Crew
- Sion Sono · Director
- Mizue Kunizane · Writer
- Sion Sono · Writer
- Yoshinori Chiba · Producer
- Nobuhiro Iizuka · Producer
- Yasuhiro Morinaga · Composer
- Sôhei Tanikawa · Cinematographer
- Jun'ichi Itô · Editor
- Mayumi Fukuda · Casting director