Tandem

The story of two men, one middle aged one mid twenties, who make friends and exchange cigarettes and stories of their sex lives, unaware they have unwittingly exchanged partners. The story, told in flashbacks, as the two men travel through the night on a motorcycle, is loaded with highly charged eroticism. Sex and violence are juxtaposed against the drabness of the men's everyday lives, effectively blurring the line between what is real and what is fantasy. Founded on the well-known myth of furtive sexual gropers on the rush-hour Tokyo commuter trains, Tandem is a low-key masterpiece of Japanese Pink Cinema.

Director: Toshiki Sato

Cast

D

Daikei Shimizu

Inoue Kazuma

M

Mineo Sugiura

Shinichi Kosaka

Takeshi Itō

Shinichi's lover

Hotaru Hazuki

Shinichi's partner

Y

Yuri Ishihara

Nobuko

M

Maya Ougi

Inoue's wife Yumiko

H

Hitomi Takano

Train victim

S

Shigeo Katsuyama

Man on bicycle