Hirugao

You will regret watching it to the end. It is horrible in a weird way.

My wife's explanation was enough to make me physically ill. Do not watch this movie if you value your emotional integrity. There is no fulfilling conclusion, it is simply a horrible ending...

The director/writer or whoever was responsible for this clearly has very big issues to sort out.

The story is horribly written. The directing sucked. Over two hours long with ridiculous, plodding character development

I loved the original series "Love Affairs in the Afternoon" it was tightly written and had an interesting story. A bit of a trashy indulgence, but it was fun and somewhat deep. The series was interesting in that it allowed each character to display their reaction to the situation. The movie was just a money grab. Mechanical, unoriginal, SLOW, stupid plot, and badly directed. I was waiting for it to end. .

Sawa leads an ordinary life with a disinterested husband who prefers his hamsters to her. She meets a woman in the store who persuades her to take on a lover. When she does the stage is set for pain and destruction on a major scale. The odd thing is that the only person who loses everything is the most innocent one. The major players just return to their lives with little punishment. I find the Japanese laws very strange - a civilian can demand an awful lot and be backed by law to do so in a divorce court including compensation and demands to control the guilty persons life to an unacceptable degree. There were more non-scenes than relevant scenes - an awful lot of bike riding and sky gazing. The story could have been told in four eps. I wish it had been.