Electric Button (Moon & Cherry)

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(Directed by Yuki Tanada, 2004, 82mins, Digital, Japanese with English subtitles)

Recalling the traditional “Pink Film” in form – but radically different in the particulars, Yuki Tanada’s ELECTRIC BUTTON manages to be as sweet as it is unsentimental, while effortlessly dancing across the lines of comedy, drama, romance and eroticism.

21 year old Kenichi Tadokoro (Tasuku Nagaoka) has finally been accepted into a university after his third try at the entrance exam. One day he is virtually shanghaied into joining an erotic fiction writing club by an odd character who seems much too old to be a proper student (veteran film actor Akira Emoto). The club is populated by an odd assortment of characters, including the sole female member, Hazuki Mayama (Noriko Eguchi), who, under a male nom de porn, is also the club’s only published member. When the group engages in a sexually explicit round of shop talk, Tadokoro regales them with his expertise. Mayama, however, to Tadakoro’s horror, easily identifies him as a virgin – out loud, casually, and in front of everyone.

Tadokoro’s inexperience proves to be no obstacle. Mayama one day, on the pretense of needing some help with her research, effortlessly divests him of his virginity in short order. In the afterglow, Tadokoro imagines that there is some emotional connection between the two, but Mayama wastes no time cynically using the experience as fodder for her next erotic epic. Her directness about using the young man so coldly becomes the occasion for some hurt and shamed feelings on Tadokoro’s part – but that doesn’t stop him from allowing himself to be thus abused again..and again, and again…

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