There's something I'd like you to look for.
A love hotel where you can watch people have sex in the other room through a mirror?
We could say they succumb to their extremest sexual impulses.
Blatantly show her Eros and devour a man
Well you see, we're a perverted couple.
I would like to invite your chief
and yourself as spectators to the peep room.
What do you think?
Something's wrong.
This isn't it, is it?
Hey, Megumi-chan.
Yes?
Well, as an implicit rule, we don't pry into each other's privacy, but
Yes.
Anyhow, your appearance does bother me.
Oh, is that so?
My dear, you're not here on regular employment,
so I don't care wherever and whatever your night job is,
but as a human being,
you make me worry for you a bit.
I started working at a Ran-pub this week.
Ran-pub?
It's in Ueno, a friend helped me to get it.
It's a Lingerie-Pub.
One of those places they walk around in their underwear?
That's right. I'm always in underwear at home so I thought it would be cushy.
If it was you, what kind would please you?
Huh?
In general, men like black, right?
Pink doesn't really fit my image, does it?
This seems a bit too see-through.
These are amazing nowadays.
What's this? Isn't this just a piece of string?
Men like underwear with as little as possible of its original functionality.
In this after war period, women have become strong, so ...
How should I put this, ahem ...
What's wrong? Did you have a nightmare?
No, erm...a licentious dream...
Huh?
What? "licentious dream"?
An indecent dream, an erotic dream, a dream about sexual intercourse.
Yuck! That's low.
What? Did you have a 'nocturnal emission'?
Huh? Nocturnal emission?
A nocturnal emission is when men ejaculate in their sleep.
It often happens to men during puberty.
You're not in puberty though.
No...at least...not to that extent...
But boss, the request this time is a bit ...
Come in please.
River's Edge, Ookawabata Detective Agency
Original Work: "River's Edge, Ookawabata Tantei-sha" Author: Hijikita Yuho / Art: Tanaka Akio ("Shukan Manga Goraku" serialized by Nihonbungeisha)
Opening Song: [Neon Sign Stomp] by EGO-WRAPPIN'
'Muraki' ODAGIRI JOE
'Director' ISHIBASHI RENJI
'Megumi' KOIZUMI MAYA
HOSHINO AKARI
Music: MORI MASAKI [Ego-Wrappin']
Cinematography: MIYAMOTO WATARU Lighting: TOMIKAWA HIDENOBU
Subtitles by arakira @d-addicts
QC / Styling: earthcolors
Special thanks: micehell / furransu
Content Producer: GOKA KIMITAKA Producers: ASANO DAI / SUGIHARA NAMI
Chief Producer: NAKAGAWA JUNPEI
Director: ONE HITOSHI
FILE.02: Sexual Fantasy
Do you have a request for us?
Yes, there's something I'd like to request,
Or rather there's something I'd like you to look for.
Uh...
You,
Huh?
Would you please step outside for a while?
Huh?
I don't want a young lady to listen to this consultation.
But, no matter if at work or at home, she ...
First, we're careful about our duty of confidentiality ...
She looks like her 'drive' is too strong.
I understand.
Megumi-chan, please wait at the café downstairs.
Alright.
What, a connecting mirror?
Yes.
So, in other words,
a love hotel where you can watch people have sex in the other room through a mirror?
I was told that in this area of Asakusa, about 30 years ago,
Probably in the late 1970s.
Such a love hotel existed.
Uh ...
I would like you to find this love hotel for me.
Well, but this kind of rumor is like a juicy classic story for men.
But I doubt this is for real.
Isn't it like an urban legend?
You know, that kind of thing?
You reckon?
Hey Muraki, what do you think?
You frequent love hotels a lot, right?
No...no...no.
I guess Megumi-chan would be better informed there.
I wasn't thinking about one of those flashy modern love hotels this girl's likely to visit.
Excuse me, but
the one who's looking for this isn't you,
It's probably somebody who's in fact been to such a hotel.
Who was to such a room 30 years ago
and still remembers the pleasure and stimulation he experienced there.
Who wants to enjoy it once again.
In other words, our real client is
A man, right?
When men realize that their days are numbered
they tend to want to finish what they have left undone
or relive their experiences, right?
Especially those related to sex.
We could say they succumb to their extremest sexual impulses.
Your judgment is correct. The client would be my husband.
He's a pervert.
As you guessed, it seems there was indeed such a love hotel before.
You know, back then the traditional love hotels
were known to be quite blunt.
By the way, did you know that love hotels are unique to Japanese culture?
Really?
Furthermore it seems only Japan has such a fragmented sexual culture.
So this must be a surprise if you come here as a foreigner.
They'd go like: Oh, Japan! It's an erotic wonderland.
How will it be during the Tokyo Olympics (2020)
There'll be loads of foreigners from all over the world.
- Sexual hospitality, I guess. - Nothing wrong with that.
However even if it's a love hotel,
There's rules like the Building Standards Act, right?
Well, once it's built
they could do something about the interior fittings.
The law is superficial.
I see.
Well, starting tomorrow I'll have to trouble you with
checking the love hotels in Asakusa one by one.
Understood.
I'll contact the interior construction companies.
May I ask for your thoughts about this woman's profile?
Let's see.
A woman originally from the entertainment business who got married for the inheritance.
Moreover, she's quite the sex maniac.
Someone who's dependent on sex.
Her half-dead old husband is impotent,
Probably playing around in host clubs to her heart's content.
That's rough.
Still, I don't dislike this kind of woman.
See, most normal women
will aim for stability next to a boring man
in short, she'll just fit herself into a place that fits.
But her kind of woman will blatantly show her Eros
and devour a man.
There's like 1 in 1000 of her kind.
A femme fatale, right?
No, she stays true to her instincts.
I was moved by her Eros.
Compared to her, our Megumi is like a kids' meal.
And, what kind of dream did you have?
Hey, why do I have to help out?
I'd look suspicious from the get go if I went to a love hotel alone.
Not at all, take prostitution for example, it's normal that the guy enters alone first.
Is that so?
By the way, is this okay, the customer said she didn't want me to know.
It was Boss' decision.
He said, at first glance your mouth and behaviour appear rather unpolished*. (TN: *"katai" initially means hard, hence the pun later)
What about my behaviour?
Well from a man's viewpoint, you seem easily---
You mean like I'm hard to get?
Yes, right.
Do you think so?
Actually I let them do me pretty quickly, if he's my type, that is.
- Huh? - Huh?
What? I said I let them do me?
Let's start looking around here.
Please pick out a room over here.
Yes.
They only have the usual kind of rooms.
I see.
This room has a really big mirror.
- What? Do we get in? - No
- Excuse me. - Yes?
Do you maybe have some special rooms in this hotel?
What?
Like where you... Where you could peek at what's going on next door.
Ah well, you see, I'm
...the editor for an adult magazine.
We're collecting data for a project
about legendary love hotels.
- Please wait a moment. - Yes.
Huh? Success at first go?
Probably.
Well I've done enquiries for many years, things like this---
I'm gonna kill you, fucker!
Asshole, we don't have such rooms here!
I don't know where you heard this but if you start a strange rumour,
I'm not gonna stay still, you fucker!
Wait, you fucker, don't you ever come back!
I'm sooorry!
Of course we don't have such a room!
Idiots, don't come again!
By the way, isn't this the wrong approach?
'Cause thinking about it,
doesn't it sound like you're saying, please let us peep at your customers
while they're having sex?
For this kind of research, straight balls are most effective. (Baseball terminology: a straightforward approach)
Isn't it rather throwing a dead ball with all your might? (Deadball: Hitting the pitcher)
Let's get going again.
There wouldn't be any love hotels around here, right?
Well, there are those very traditional ones.
Welcome.
- Do you want to get some rest? - Yes.
We have rooms for 3 hours at 4,500Y and at 5,500Y.
That's ...
Well you see, we're a perverted couple.
So, we were talking about showing each other how we masturbate and
since right in front of each other would be boring, we came up with the idea
that connecting rooms with a mirror in between would be such a turn-on, and
when we searched for it on the internet,
it said there was such a place here in Asakusa.
Do you have such a room?
Do you?
Miss, you're really funny.
We don't have such a room here, but
how about we have a little chat?
Well, that was during the postwar boom years,
they say there were love hotels like that then.
So there are none now?
The love hotels back then were fun.
They had things like rotating beds.
What? beds that go round and round? That sounds so exciting!
And they had mirrors everywhere, from ceiling and walls to the floor even.
And like a couple-merry-go-round.
Awesome! I so wanna try this out!
But you see, nowadays, with adult videos and the internet,
each and every perverse desire in the world will be fulfilled.
That's probably why such things aren't demanded from love hotels anymore.
Huh? That's such a shame.
That means a love hotel with a peep room doesn't exist in this area?
I've been making beds in love hotels around here for 40 years, I hear a lot.
Like that there was a so inclined
perverted owner who made a peep room for himself.
There is such a hotel in Moto Yoshiwara (TN: Former red light district in Edo times)
It got remodeled several times, but
it seems there's still a peep room in operation.
As expected of a pro.
And then?
Although this is top secret,
as long as you're willing to pay the price,
you can watch other people having sex.
I see.
If there's anything else, you can discuss it directly with them.
Goodbye.
Wait.
Wouldn't you please do another job for me?
I would like to invite your chief
and yourself as spectators to the peep room.
What do you think?
Was it to your satisfaction?
Not yet.
We got to see something there.
Our world today, no at all times, from children to adults is full of perverts only
In the end, humans are but beasts.
What's wrong? You don't look good.
Nothing really.
Huh? What's wrong?
To be honest,
That performance before...
While watching, somehow...somewhat, I...
You found yourself getting aroused, too?
Y..Yes.
Men and women alike, to some degree we're all perverts.
The question is whether you cross the line.
Cross the line?
Then you can't turn back.
Once your brakes stop functioning you'll turn into a real beast.
I think I get the gist of it.
Do you know my method to avoid that?
Wanna know?
Yeah.
It's this here.
I get along well with friend alcohol.
Be still, be still, it tells me.
It pacifies my beastly instincts.
That's what they call human wisdom.
I see.
'Muraki' ODAGIRI JOE
'Director' ISHIBASHI RENJI
'Megumi' KOIZUMI MAYA
'Female Client' HOSHINO AKARI
'Love Hotel Receptionist' - OYAMA USAGI 'Client's husband' - SUGA TOMIO 'Bar Owner' - MORI MASAKI
Original Work: "River's Edge, Okawabata Tantei-sha" Author: Hijikita Yuho / Art: Tanaka Akio ("Shukan Manga Goraku" serialized by Nihonbungeisha)
Opening Theme: "Neon Sign Stomp" Ending Theme: "Sunnyside Melody" Performer: EGO-WRAPPIN' / Music: MORI MASAKI
Co-Writer: KUROZUMI HIKARU
Assistant directors: KOTOKU KOJI / IWABUCHI TAKASHI NINOMIYA KOHEI / WAKABAYASHI SHOHEI
Editing / Title Back: OZEKI YASUYUKI Stylist: IGA DAISUKE
Shooting cooperation: TAITO Film Commission
Production: TV TOKYO / OFFICE CRESCENDO
Producers: KOMATSU YUKITOSHI / TANABE HAYATO / SUZUKI KANAKO
Subtitles by arakira @d-addicts
QC / Styling: earthcolors
Special thanks to: micehell / furransu
Director / Writer: ONE HITOSHI
A 2014 production of: TV Tokyo
Next on File.03: "Marriage"