A Snake of June
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A Snake of June (Rokugatsu no hebi) is a Japanese film directed by Shinya Tsukamoto. The film is Shinya Tsukamoto's seventh film. The film is notable for its striking monochrome cinematography which has been blue tinted in post production. The film won the Kinematrix Film Award and the San Marco Special Jury Award at the Venice Film Festival.
Plot
Set in an anonymous Japanese metropolis, the film tells the tale of shy career woman, Rinko, a suicide hotline worker; and Shigehiko her hygiene-obsessed (mysophobic), workaholic husband. The couple explore their sexuality in a number of ways, causing their lives to be disrupted. Once Tsukamoto employ the formula of two men in competition for one woman, as a young lady is blackmailed into perverse sexual behavior against her husband's will -- until her husband finds that he enjoys the blackmail more than the blackmailer does.
