If you loved Stolen Desire, try Einführung in die Menschenkunde
Eine Brücke zwischen einem Film, den du schon gesehen hast, und einem, den kaum jemand kennt. Das teilen sie, und was der zweite macht, was der erste nicht macht.
Was sie teilen
Both films are directed by Shōhei Imamura, and they both carry the sexy mood tag, and they sit in Comedy / Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Stolen Desire, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What Einführung in die Menschenkunde is
Subu churns out softcore for a socially repressed Japan, funding Haru’s household with the takings while she winks at her carp-husband’s imaginary veto. Haru shares her bed with Subu, her son moons over her daughter, and the director watches with amused detachment. What began as a scandalous romp now feels like sympathetic anthropology on fast-forward.

