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WHEELS AND AXLE

SHAJIKU

By Jumpei MATSUMOTO

LGBT - Completed 2023

Inspired by Georges Bataille’s provocative novel Madame Edwarda. This coming-of-age film depicts the love triangle between three young people (a gay man, a female student, and a guy who works in the male host club) living in Tokyo's Kabuki-cho district, exposing the reality of the youth in Japan.

- Year of production
- 2023
- Genres
- LGBT, Romance, Erotic
- Countries
- JAPAN
- Languages
- JAPANESE
- Budget
- 0.3 - 0.6 M$
- Duration
- 120 mn
- Director(s)
- Jumpei MATSUMOTO
- Writer(s)
- Dan OSANO, Jumpei MATSUMOTO
- Cast
- Masato YANO, Uri SUZUKI, Atomu MIZUISHI, Lily FRANKY, Eiji OKUDA
- Producer(s)
- Jumpei MATSUMOTO (Niepokalanow, LLC ), Masamitsu WASHIZU, Hiroyuki ONOGAWA
- Synopsis
- 　Manami was born into a wealthy family in a rural area, but she hates her family lineage as "fake." In her third year of college, she meets Jun, a wealthy gay man, in Kabuki-cho, Shinjuku, through the introduction of her friend, Eileen. They take Manami to a male host club (a night club where patrons pay for drinks, companionship and conversation) for the first time, and she gets interested in Seiya, a popular host guy who has had sex with Jun for business.
  　
  　Manami and Jun soon get close and become friends. One day, Manami is invited by Jun to a play for reading of Georges Bataille's novel "Madame Edwarda". She is moved to tears, and her blood tingles by the sight of Edwarda, the goddess who leads the protagonist into a sweet eroticism. Manami is convinced that this figure is what she is looking for, and she tells her feelings to Jun.
  　
  　The next day, Manami is called by Jun, and he makes her a proposal. “You, Seiya and I could do threesome?”