Sad and Painful Search: Office Lady Essay

Sad and Painful Search: Office Lady Essay

DVD cover for Sad and Painful Search- Office Lady Essay (2000)
Directed by Tarō Araki[1]
Written by Yumi Yoshiyuki
Starring Emi Kawana
Yumi Yoshiyuki
Cinematography Shōji Shimizu
Edited by Shōji Sakai
Distributed by OP Eiga
Release dates
June 22, 2000
Running time
61 min.
Country Japan
Language Japanese

Sad and Painful Search: Office Lady Essay (せつなく求めて OL編 Setsunaku motomete: OL hen) is a 2000 Japanese Pink film directed by Tarō Araki. It was chosen as Best Film of the year at the Pink Grand Prix ceremony. Tomohiro Okada was given the Best Actor award and cinematographer Shōji Shimizu was also awarded for his work on the film at the ceremony.[2]

Writer-actress, Yumi Yoshiyuki wrote and directed a sequel to the film released in July of the same year, Sad and Painful Search II: Housewife Essay (せつなく求めてII 人妻編 Setsunaku motomete II: hitozuma hen). Yoshiyuki starred in the sequel which included AV idol Yumika Hayashi.[3][4]

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Notes

  1. Infobox data from "New Movie: 2000.5~6; せつなく求めて OL編" (in Japanese). P.G. Web Site. Retrieved 2009-05-29.
  2. "Best Ten of 2000 (2000年度ベストテン)" (in Japanese). P*G Website. Retrieved January 18, 2009.
  3. "pinkArchives 2000" (in Japanese). m@stervision. Retrieved 2009-05-28.
  4. せつなく求めて 人妻編(2000) (in Japanese). www.allcinema.net. Retrieved 2009-05-28.
Preceded by
Office Lady Love Juice
Pink Grand Prix for Best Film
2000
Succeeded by
Apartment Wife: Moans from Next Door