dragokin This one got me by surprise. Although it plays on some general misconceptions, if not prejudice, about Japanese, it offers a very interesting take on human relations.A guy moves into an apartment and meets an attractive neighbor living in the flat next to his. He becomes obsessed with her and stalks her with some audio equipment.With time we meet her boyfriend who is a control freak. It is not clear whether he simply stalks the girlfriend or whether it is their role play, yet she is submissive and accepts the relationship as it is.So, there are two guys stalking a girl, but only one can win her heart.

lazarillo A man moves into an apartment and realizes his neighbor is an attractive young woman (Aoi Sola). Since this a Japanese movie, instead of conventionally romancing her, he starts electronically eavesdropping on her through the wall, masturbating as he listens to her take a shower or have sex with her boyfriend. He finally conspires to meet her by "accidentally" having a care package sent to her house. Eventually he learns that she has another stalker, strangely enough her own boyfriend, who has wired her apartment with video and is making scary, obscene calls to her (after which she inevitably invites him over for some hot sex). The two stalkers begin "competing", but it's a rather weird competition since the boyfriend actually WANTS the shy introvert to sleep with his girl, as long as he does it on camera, and the introvert seems most comfortable maintaining his "audio voyeur" masturbation routine. Of course, in real-life a woman would probably be most comfortable not be stalked at all, but the girl here eventually settles on one of her two perverted suitors. . .This is actually a pretty superior Japanese "pink" movie in that it would be pretty entertaining even WITHOUT Aoi Sola getting butt-naked every ten minutes, but of course she does that too. Sola, a former AV starlet, also played a "teenage" stalking victim in "Raw Summer", a similarly weird but much darker film that almost makes this look a sappy romantic comedy. This is NOT a sappy romantic comedy though, thank god, and while it's not totally believable, it does perhaps make a serious statement on the relationship between the sexes and the alienation in modern-day Japanese society. I also like the final scene where you get see something--totally sans optical "fogging"--that you rarely see in Japanese movies (which I always find odd in the country that invented schoolgirl "tentacle-rape" movies).This is definitely worth seeing.

werdnahall Watched this one on Netflix Watch-now, so didn't have many expectations. Intentionally or not, kind of an indefinable blend of styles. Turns up the erotic dial pretty high sometimes so that it starts to seem like one of those Japanese 'pink eiga' (think late night on Showtime), but it also throws in some humor, some action/suspense, large helpings of conversation, while mixing a reality TV feel at times with pure fantasy. Maybe the biggest 'never seen that before' aspect for me was having a guy who could both be a creepy voyeur type and a real social charmer. Not a combo I've seen. Some of the acting feels amateurish, and I can't say that the female lead ever comes across as much more than a nice-looking chick, but the film holds your interest regardless.

christopherhaan The plot of this modern, low-budget Japanese movie is about two young guys bugging the apartment of the same young hot chick. The main twist to the plot is that one guy is actually the boyfriend of the woman at the same time that he is secretly bugging her place, and the other guy lives in the apartment right next door. Over time there are strange discoveries, fantasies thwarted, and ingenious methods used to win over the girl. Although the movie starts out with a pretty dull premise, the full plotting of the movie makes it an above-average film. In between the plot, the film highlights the struggles of young, hip, urban, crazy Japanese life. It shows that creativity and idiosyncrasies can be found behind any facade, any place, any country.