If you loved A Bad Summer, try Be My Master

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Both films are directed by Hideo Jojo, and they both carry the paranoid mood tag, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to A Bad Summer, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Be My Master is

A corporate affair spirals into a private theater of control when one husband commissions the other to seduce and document his wife. What begins as blackmail becomes a live feed of psychological barter, shot in the muted tones of 2010s Japanese boardroom drama. The real product being sold isn't sex—it's complicity.

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