GUILTY OF ROMANCE

“Love is hell.”

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.

Above the Line

Sion Sono·DirectorSion Sono·WriterMizue Kunizane·StorySohei Tanikawa·Director of PhotographyYasuhiro Morinaga·Original Music ComposerJunichi Ito·Editor

Cast

Makoto Togashi·Mitsuko OzawaMegumi Kagurazaka·Izumi KikuchiMiki Mizuno·Kazuko YoshidaSatoshi Nikaido·Masao YoshidaKazuya Kojima·ShojiKanji Tsuda·Yukio KikuchiRyuju Kobayashi·KaoruShingo Gotsuji·Kazuo KimuraMotoki Fukami·Martini MakiMarie Machida·Mari

Full Crew

(16 credits)

Directing· 1

Sion Sono·Director

Writing· 2

Sion Sono·WriterMizue Kunizane·Story

Camera· 1

Sohei Tanikawa·Director of Photography

Editing· 1

Junichi Ito·Editor

Sound & Music· 3

Yasuhiro Morinaga·Original Music ComposerMasatoshi Saito·Sound DesignerShinji Watanabe·Sound

Art & Design· 3

Akihiro Nakamura·Art DirectionYoshio Yamada·Art DirectionChiyoe Hakamada·Costume Design

Production· 5

Yoshinori Chiba·ProducerToshimichi Otsuki·Executive ProducerKanjiro Toba·Executive ProducerNobuhiro Iizuka·ProducerMayumi Fukuda·Casting

By the Numbers

77.9

OF 100

Master Score

6.8

OF 10

IMDb

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CRITICS

Rotten Tomatoes

$246K

Worldwide Gross

Oscar Wins

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