Natsu, Taiken Monogatari (1985)

TW: Sexual Assault

This could've been a good drama, there's something here about teen sexuality and the autonomy of women potrayed without shame that had potential, but any remotely well-written plot is buried under the sexualization of underage actors, the sexual assault of women either played for laughs or as a normal rite of passage, the homophobic stereotype of gay men, and of course the normalization of relationships between teenagers and adults that is sadly so common in pop culture. The late Nakayama Miho is predictably very charming, but my heart breaks thinking about how she filmed all these inappropriate scenes when she was only 15 years old, it's shameful how no matter the country or culture child actors are always taken advantage of.

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