Sexual Drive

Name: Sexual Drive
Genre: Drama
Released: April 22, 2022
Duration: 70 min
Rating: 66
Cast: Honami Satô, Manami Hashimoto, Mukau Nakamura, Rina Takeda, Ryô Ikeda

2022

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Film Movement | Release Date: April 22, 2022 | Not Rated

Starring: Honami Satô, Manami Hashimoto, Mukau Nakamura, Rina Takeda, Ryô Ikeda, Shogen, Tateto Serizawa

Summary: Sexual Drive is an unconventional triptych - equal parts thriller, sex comedy, and gastronomy - following the seemingly unconnected lives of three people around Japan and their appetites, both culinary and carnal. In the first story, designer Enatsu worries about his sexless marriage. Next, office worker Akane is recovering fromSexual Drive is an unconventional triptych - equal parts thriller, sex comedy, and gastronomy - following the seemingly unconnected lives of three people around Japan and their appetites, both culinary and carnal. In the first story, designer Enatsu worries about his sexless marriage. Next, office worker Akane is recovering from driving-induced panic attacks. In the final third, elite advertising agent Ikeyama wants to end a relationship with his lover. Connecting all three is a shabby man who calls himself Kurita. He appears and presents each with a secret. Both suspicious and revolting, Kurita gradually reveals to each deep, mouth-watering truths regarding their sexual drive...… Expand

Director: Kôta Yoshida

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 70 min

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Alan Ng

Apr 23, 2022

There’s enough good and exciting to recommend Sexual Drive, but oh, the sweet-savory possibilities that were missed. Read full review

Natalia Winkelman

Apr 21, 2022

Consistently intriguing and occasionally hilarious, the movie does not depict sex itself. Instead, the characters eat food items that become objects of titillation, lust and pleasure: the sticky goo around soybeans, chili oil sizzling in a wok. Read full review

IndieWire David Ehrlich

Apr 21, 2022

Anyone expecting a three-course meal as rich and nuanced as Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s “Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy” (or even a single dish as sumptuous as Juzo Itami’s “Tampopo”) might find themselves disappointed by a quick and dirty film that only aspires to offer the satisfaction of a light dessert, but Yoshida’s giddy fetishism makes for its own simple fun. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Apr 19, 2022

This three-part picture is more interesting than titillating, a film best appreciated as a semi-sordid slice of interior lives in a culture that worships good manners and may or may not have invented pornography, but certainly perfected it in either case. Read full review

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JLuis_001

Dec 3, 2022

It's a film that forces you to be a sort of voyeur of what really feels like something you want to look away from.

It's basically a fetish that doesn't seek to be arousing or sensual - though of course that's up to each viewer - but beyond being a sort of exercise, I didn't find it to be ofIt's a film that forces you to be a sort of voyeur of what really feels like something you want to look away from.

It's basically a fetish that doesn't seek to be arousing or sensual - though of course that's up to each viewer - but beyond being a sort of exercise, I didn't find it to be of any noticeable use.… Expand

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