Secret Book: Sleeve and Sleeve

Synopsis

A man and woman are like sleeves touching and parting, then touching again! A film adaptation of a notorious secret classic that shines with seductive brilliance in modern Japanese literary history.

Kurinojo Tsuruta writes novels under the pen name Kazahae while teaching English to Tsuneko, the sister of his friend Muraki. At the time, Muraki suffers from a chest ailment but becomes intimate with Teruo, a barmaid at a dive called “Chidori” in Asakusa. One rainy night, Tsuruta is invited into a certain house. Feeling as if bewitched by a fox, he is shown to a parlor where a stunning beauty appears with sake and food. The woman is Kimiko, the mistress of the house. Her husband, a military officer, is away fighting in the Russo-Japanese War, and unable to endure her long loneliness, she has been entertaining a young acquaintance. But tonight, a half-blind nursemaid has mistakenly invited Tsuruta instead…

A complete film adaptation as erotic cinema of one of modern Japan’s “three great forbidden books,” “Secret Book: Sleeve and Sleeve.”