Kami no tsuki (2014)

Kami no tsuki: Directed by Daihachi Yoshida. With Rie Miyazawa, Sôsuke Ikematsu, Yûko Ôshima, Seiichi Tanabe. A mellow drama following the moral decline of a housewife turned bank employee who embezzles a fortune from her customers and indulges in an affair with a younger man. Set in 1994, shortly after the burst of Japan’s economic bubble.

“I didnu0026#39;t like this movie because the main character was not relatable or elicited any sympathy. Sheu0026#39;s just a bad person.nOther reviewers were interpreting some feminist u0026quot;womenu0026#39;s liberationu0026quot; message into this story and lauding her as some kind of heroine, because she betrays her husband and goes and u0026quot;does what she wantsu0026quot;. (Goes to show you again how toxic that ideology is.) All I see is a corrupt, stupid woman throwing away her life and her marriage for material goods and short term hedonistic pleasure with an underage boy two decades younger than her. Itu0026#39;s also entirely predictable that she wonu0026#39;t get away with it.nAt one point she is asked about children and if sheu0026#39;s trying to have one. She doesnu0026#39;t answer. Maybe she or her husband canu0026#39;t have any, that would at least partially explain her nihilistic attitude and her self-destructive behavior.”