If you loved Désir inassouvi, try Le Pornographe
Un pont entre un film que tu as déjà vu et un que peu de gens ont croisé. Voici ce qu'ils partagent, et ce que le second fait que le premier ne fait pas.
Ce qu'ils partagent
Both films are directed by Shōhei Imamura, and they sit in Comedy / Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Désir inassouvi, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What Le Pornographe 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.

