Berlin Drifters

This film tells the story of a Japanese man, who travels to Berlin hoping for a long term relationship with a man he met online. However, the German guy does not even let him stay the night, so he drifts around looking for love, while staying at a lonely Japanese man's place.

I had no idea how much sex scenes there are, and how explicit they are at all before I watched the film. The first ninety percent of the film basically is one hardcore sex scene after another. Then, when the story kicks in, I was unprepared for it because I did not expect any story. What surprised me even more was that the story was actually good. It highlights how Ryota wants love and attachment, but he is prone to being used by predators. The other Japanese guy, Kôichi, has a touching back story as well. He craves for attachment despite his solitary existence. The story is packed into a few scenes, and it is actually quite powerful. All the previous sex scenes climax into this story about wanting love, drifting from one man to another but ultimately unfulfilled. That's why when Kôichi's ghost from the past reappears into his life, it sends much shock waves through Kôichi. It is a touching story, I would definitely watch it again.I would be interested in the other films by the same director.

As another reviewer said, this is 90% porn with the two main characters having unsimulated sex with each other and Ryota additionally pulling local gay guys for sex which we also saw in graphic detail.

After 40 minutes I began to get bored and started hitting the fast-forward button. I wasn't wrong, it was scene after scene of gay sex with no story or development. I tuned in to the ending but was not impressed. The pathetic attempt to flesh out the personalities of the two main characters was only there to avoid the film being relegated to the porn shelves.

This was two hours long. There are people who might want to watch porn for that length of time but I'm not one of them. There's no way I could recommend this.