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Tandem (1994)

Posted By: Someonelse

Date: 20 Feb 2024 06:19:43

SD / DVD IMDb

Director: Toshiki Satô (as Toshiki Sato)
Writer: Masahiro Kobayashi (screenplay) (as Kôichi Kobayashi)
Stars: Daikei Shimizu, Mineo Sugiura, Hotaru Hazuki

The story of two men, one middle aged one mid twenties, who make friends and exchange cigarettes and stories of their sex lives, unaware they have unwittingly exchanged partners. The story, told in flashbacks, as the two men travel through the night on a motorcycle, is loaded with highly charged eroticism. Sex and violence are juxtaposed against the drabness of the men's everyday lives, effectively blurring the line between what is real and what is fantasy. Founded on the well-known myth of furtive sexual gropers on the rush-hour Tokyo commuter trains, Tandem is a low-key masterpiece of Japanese Pink Cinema.

IMDB

The story, told in flashbacks, as two men travel through the night on a motorcycle, is loaded with highly charged eroticism. Sex and violence are juxtaposed against the drabness of the mens everyday lives, effectively blurring the line between what is real and what is fantasy.

Founded on the well known myth of furtive sexual gropers on the rush-hour Tokyo commuter trains Tandem is a low key masterpiece of Japanese Pink Cinema.
IMDB Reviewer

Tandem (Chikan densha hitozuma-hen: Okusama wa chijo) tells the story of two men who meet by chance in a late night coffee shop. The older, Mr. Inoue, is reminiscing about a sexual encounter he had earlier in the day with a stranger on the commuter train. A young biker arrives, and is offered a cigarette by the older man, who is looking for company and someone to share his day’s stories with.

Tandem (1994)

The biker is himself remembering the day’s events, and the rape of his girlfriend in retribution for her confession of infidelity. The two men end up cruising the town on the younger’s motorcycle, but as the night wears on, the biker becomes increasing offended by the older man’s attitude, eventually attacking him and leaving him for dead.

Tandem (1994)

Through the course of the film, both men examine their (primarily sexual) relationships with the women in their lives; their partners and the mistresses they both keep. The line between reality and fantasy is blurred, as both men try to detach from any emotional level, and maintain a position of dominance, which is clearly a figment of their imaginations. There is, of course, a twist in the end, which the audience sees, but neither man discovers—they have exchanged partners.

Tandem (1994)

Where the storyline does wander into surreal escapism, the photography has a cinèma vérité feel to it, with odd, intimate angles, shaky handheld work, and casual immediacy. As expected, there are ample sex scenes, though their erotic potential will be determined by the viewer’s taste – there is no effort to portray soft or sensual moments; the men are fully in command, with their women as submissive, and not always willing participants. However, the women do wield the upper hand by inference, as they are usually manipulating their men to their desires, or provoking their reactions.