Moonlight Whispers
Director: Akihiko Shiota
Year Released: 1999
Rating: 0.5
Two teenagers get involved in a sadomasochistic relationship (perhaps without their intention to do so) after a benign courtship - it isn't until the young woman discovers the cassette recording her boyfriend made of her urinating that she gets suspicious. The interaction between the two might have been a little more compelling had these two characters been believable in the slightest (or if the film had any sense of humor whatsoever), and the scenes of humiliation quickly become repetitious: the young woman taunts the young man by making him listen to her have sex with another boy or lick her toes or drink the sweat off her legs, after which he ups the ante by actually doing it - and is happy to do it - which disgusts her, so she calls him a pervert and runs off. When I try to drink the sweat of perspiring young ladies or peer into their apartments or send them anonymous flowers, they call the goddamn cops on me. Lucky Japanese creeps.
