Tandem

Overview

The story of two men, one middle aged one mid twenties, who make friends and exchange cigarettes and stories of their sex lives, unaware they have unwittingly exchanged partners. The story, told in flashbacks, as the two men travel through the night on a motorcycle, is loaded with highly charged eroticism. Sex and violence are juxtaposed against the drabness of the men's everyday lives, effectively blurring the line between what is real and what is fantasy. Founded on the well-known myth of furtive sexual gropers on the rush-hour Tokyo commuter trains, Tandem is a low-key masterpiece of Japanese Pink Cinema.

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Cast

Daikei Shimizu

Inoue Kazuma

Mineo Sugiura

Shinichi Kosaka

Takeshi Itō

Shinichi's lover

Hotaru Hazuki

Shinichi's partner

Yuri Ishihara

Nobuko

Maya Ougi

Inoue's wife Yumiko

Hitomi Takano

Train victim

Shigeo Katsuyama

Man on bicycle

Yoshiaki Sase

Waiter