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33% Critic Match
Unfaithful Wife: Sticky and Messy
3.3 / 10• 2002• 47m•NR• Japanese
Romance
Storyline
Middle-aged Hiroshi, a 53‑year‑old salaryman whose wife cheats on him and whose daughter barely tolerates him, finds himself discarded by his company and adrift—until a mysterious phone call from Mariko, his long‑lost love who supposedly died thirty years ago, pulls him into a forbidden reverie and dreams of a different life with her. Mariko, embodied by the irresistible Yōko Satomi—dressed in the provocative uniforms and iconic emblems of the old protest movements—the past awakens in tantalizing detail. As Hiroshi dials into a life he might have lived with Mariko, full of erotic promise and the intoxicating thrill of rewriting his destiny.
Cast & Crew
TO
Tomohiro Okada
Hiroshi Fujita
Lead
Yōko Satomi
Mariko Mizuno
YI
Yurika Iwashita
Mayu Fujita
Yohta Kawase
Takayuki Igarashi
MW
Misaki Wakamiya
Misako Fujita
YA
Yasuhiro Asai
Masaki Yamakawa
What People Are Saying
2.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Akira Fukamachi's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Unfaithful Wife: Sticky and Messy is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
