Movie
Save the Last Dance for Me
1986 · 60 min
A bleak, fatalistic softcore tragedy that lingers like a slow ache, mixing real amateur footage into its doomed romance.
- Directed by
- Hisayasu Satō
- Genres
- Crime, Drama
- Starring
- Kiyomi Itō, Ai Kobayashi, Bunmei Tobayama
- Overview
- The true story of a pair of college students who attempted a double suicide to end their doomed romance becomes fare for legendary pinku-eiga director Hisayasu Sato in this feature. Fatalistic and sad, this is one of the more depressing Japanese softcore films, and Sato makes it even worse by including footage from the lovers’ actual 8 mm experimental film throughout the story
- How it feels
- Bleak, melancholic, dark and tense. Slow-burning and demanding.
- About
- Death, love, isolation, obsession
- Content
- Strong sexual content. Mild violence, gore and language.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Hisayasu Satō
- Genres
- Crime, Drama
- Starring
- Kiyomi Itō, Ai Kobayashi, Bunmei Tobayama
