Nikkatsu Erotica Volume 1: Wet Desire / Lovers Are Wet Blu-ray | Limited Edition

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Wet Desire (aka Ichijo’s Wet Lust) (1972)
Once voted one of the 100 best Japanese films of the 20th Century (by the cinema journal Kinema Jumpo in 1999), Tatsumi Kumashiro’s Wet Desire stars famous stripper Sayuri Ichij? as herself, alongside Kazuko Shirakawa (After Life) and Hiroko Isayama (Martin Scorsese’s Silence). Ichijo Sayuri, once the legendary queen of Osaka strippers, has retired to run a sushi shop. She is awaiting her day in court after having been arrested for indecency at her farewell performance.

Lovers Are Wet (1973)
Also voted one of the 100 best Japanese films of the 20th Century (by the cinema journal Kinema Jumpo, 1999), Lovers Are Wet is director Tatsumi Kumashiro’s response to the hypocrisy of censorship, finding creative ways to bypass the censorship rules imposed on cinema of the time. A young man named Katsu comes to a rural town by the sea and begins working in a movie theatre. The wife of the cinema owner becomes interested in his past.

Actors: Sayuri Ichijo, Kazuko Shirakawa
Director: Tatsumi Kumashiro
Languages: Japanese
Subtitles: English
Running Time: 145 minutes approx
Discs: 2