Electric Button (Moon & Cherry)

Electric Button
I'll go right to the point: this is one funny movie. When I saw the cover of the DVD, I sincerely did not know what to expect, only that it was a Japanese film, described as a sexy comedy. But it is more than that, and, after watching it, you'll feel that you watched something special.

Kenichi Tadokoro (Tasuko Nagaoka) is a college student who joins a group that writes erotic literature. He is young and inexperienced, and the task seems enormous to him. However, Mayama ((Noriko Eguchi), the only female in the group, quickly learns that Tadokoro is a virgin, and slowly seduces him. Tadokoro, of course, is having the time of his life, as Mayama is pretty much experienced in the sexual arts. However, after one lovemaking session, Mayama tells Tadokoro, "Thanks for helping with my research." It happens that Mayama was using him for inspiration and data gathering for her next book. His colleagues at the group inform him that "Mayama will do anything for her writing." At the...

Casual Sex? Or Modern Love? ELECTRIC BUTTON Hits The Spot!
Ah, the adventures and misadventures of young people in love! (Mostly, it's misadventures.) It isn't uncommon for attraction to bubble up into lust and, inevitably, for lust to turn into something stronger; and that's precisely the subject matter of this 2004 Japanese film that's only recently found release on American shores. Though it tries in the latter half to perhaps be something a bit more than what it wanted, ELECTRIC BUTTON remains a modern-day love story of two youngsters who fall backward into love - entirely by an unconventional route - and end up making the best of it despite the reality that they're probably not so much `star-crossed' as their routes are `criss-crossed' by a cruel and wicked thing called fate.

(NOTE: The following review will contain minor spoilers necessary solely for the discussion of plot and characters. If you're the kind of reader who prefers a review entirely spoiler-free, then I'd encourage you to skip down to the last two paragraphs...



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