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Last in cult director Sono Sion’s Hate Trilogy (LOVE EXPOSURE and COLD FISH) GUILTY OF ROMANCE is nothing short of his previous provocative, sexually-charged signature films. Bending genres such as film noir, melodrama, thriller and soft porn, GUILTY OF ROMANCE tells the story of three women. Izumi, obedient but bored wife of a famous author, finds distraction in modelling naked, discovering secret desires and meeting shadowy people from the Tokyo Love Hotel red-light area – including literary professor Mitsuko who works as a prostitute at night (and becomes Izumi’s dark mirror image). Intertwined is the story of female detective Kazuko who finds a dismembered body near the hotel. As these Freudian-charged stories unfold, all grow closer together to culminate in a gruesome, phantasmagorical finale.

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