The lead actor Suei is currently in a police force doing censorship of porn. It is 1984.
Flash back, we see it's 1950s, when he was a preschool. With a younger sister. His mum had TB and blew herself up with her bf, the next door neighbour. The scene of carnage in the forests among the rocks. It's bloody and the policeman fell amongst the carnage. The father is a miner and has tons of dynamite in his house. When he found out his wife was having an affair, he threw her out. Cannot find her anymore until when she blew herself up.
Dad moves on much later to live in the city working in a factory. He moans about how his colleague lost his limbs and was greatly compensated. He could buy a fridge, a car and a gf. He wished he had lost his legs. What a short sighted and desperate thought. In the end he died after slipping in the bathtub, while singing he has no feelings for his wife. It's indeed not true.
Suei moves to the city to work in a factory. It is depressing cos people work till they die. So he moved in to another town to work with his dad. Another factory and really depressing. So he moved out of his dad's place and studied design. That's where he met his gf, the next door neighbour and wife. They moved out after his dad tried to make some moves on her.
We see an evolution on porn next during the hippie era of 1960s in photography from men touting good girl photos, to actual shoots, to 1980s collage, phone sex, billboard posters, cabaret, to offering of services to help men relieve stress, to finally Pachinko videos. Threading the fine line of porn and art.
Some people say "Art is an explosion". In my case, my mom was the explosion.
We see Suei being entangled in love affairs. With one he groomed for phone sex, as a manager for countless shoots, persuading good girls to bare it all, getting involved with someone working for him while he's chief editor. From illustrator he became writer after. Stealing someone's bf and then dumping her when she gets clingy. And when she returned after recovering from syphilis. It's so sad. She walks with a terrible limp. And yet he can still suggest they go to a love hotel, which she agrees. She insists on walking and falls and he doesn't help her. She struggles to remove her clothes and look beautiful for him. He admires her body.
It's so sad. I think he's pursuing beauty.
He gets his stuff confiscated many times but cooperates so it's good. He meets weird people who tries to sell him dolls which are super life like. They're even better than those lolita dolls.
And the one he groomed for phone sex? Well she was admitted into psychiatric ward. She asked if he was making use of her. I think he's just pursuing beauty or money or perfection and had no thoughts of making use.
Throughout the show, we see the mom and her lover over and over again. Esp. when Suei recounts the story to his friends or at work. So she dies many times over and over.
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