Info:
http://imdb.com/title/tt0304704/
Screened at Facets, Chicago
Sub: English
Directed by Eiji Okuda
With Eiji Okuda, Mayu Ozawa, Shoji Akira, Mari Natsuki
Shot through with pangs of loneliness and despair, SHOUJYO paints an intricately-detailed portrait of an emotionally hollow police officer and a family in turmoil.
Middle-aged Tomokawa (Eiji Okuda) lazily patrols his police beat on a bicycle. He leverages his "service" to the community to his advantage; e.g. having found a lost dog, he keeps it several days so as to impress the dog's female owner, who gratefully has sex with him in her closed shop. Even as he makes love to the woman, however, Tomokawa studies himself in a mirror, too self-absorbed to pay any real attention to anyone but himself. He doesn't seem pleased with his reflection.
Nonetheless, Tomokawa has friends: he hangs out with several male cronies, and spends time with Sukemasa (Akira Shoji), a mentally-challenged young man.
Out of the blue, Tomokawa is boldly propositioned by a young woman (Mayu Ozawa) in a cafe. Initially she won't even tell him her name, but with only token resistance -- because she looks so young -- he takes her to a motel. When he awakes, she is gone............
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