Moonlight Whispers
- Disambiguation: Sasayaki, which redirects here, is the name of episode 8 of xxxHolic: Kei.
Moonlight Whispers (月光の囁き, Sasayaki?) is a 1999 Japanese film directed by Akihiko Shiota.[1] The film is based on the manga Gekko no sasayaki.
Boy (Takuya) meets girl (Satsuki), they fall in love. When she discovers his fetishes Satsuki brands Takuya hentai (pervert) and leaves him, only to be drawn back by the power his fetishes give her over him.
Reviews
- "Moonlight Whisper buzzes with a quietly disturbing resonance that will stick with you for days." Time Out, New York
- "...unspools like a long kinky episode of 'Dawson's Creek'...succeeds in uncovering moments of delicate nuance." A. O. Scott, The New York Times[1]
- "Perfectly deranged...Attains a hospitalized lyricism not seen since Cronenberg's Crash" Chuck Stephens, San Francisco Bay Guardian.
- "An audacious blend of perversion and poignancy" Peter Stack, San Francisco Chronicle.
- "discreetly erotic...[director, Akihiko Shiota is] an original new talent." Derek Elley, Variety
- "a singular film. . . passionately romantic."Noah Cowan, Toronto International Film Festival
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