Asami Sakura

Movie - 2003, 2h 15m • as Yumiko

The film is in a surreal style. The story involves a young high school teacher who has retired for marriage and seduces one of her former students. She prolongs the relationship by seeing the student whenever her husband leaves for work. Eventually she hides the student in a bedroom closet for more convenient access.

Movie - 2003, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

Naoko Ishikawa, a Japanese history teacher, is assigned to a dilapidated high school in a sparsely populated area. In the lifeless town, where no young people are to be seen, only the elderly. Naoko is welcomed by the vice-principal, Wada and the guidance counselor, Ikegami. Naoko's welcome party is held at Ikegami's house. His elderly father, Tadashi, is the town mayor, and Naoko is surprised by the youth of his wife, Asami. At the party, Naoko is given cloudy local sake to drink. Soon, Naoko's consciousness becomes hazy, and she is carried to the bedroom where she is subjected to the lewd caresses of men... The next day, Naoko wakes up in her room and cannot determine whether what happened last night was a dream or reality. Enduring a hangover headache, Naoko goes to school. In Naoko's class, there is a student named Kinoshita. When Kinoshita suddenly starts acting violently in the classroom, a female student, Misato,says, "He's sick."

Movie - 2003, 2h 15m • as Momoko Anzai

Momoko, a female college student, is eager to begin her student teaching at her alma mater—a crucial step toward becoming the teacher she has always dreamed of being. However, the school has since transformed from a co-ed institution into an all-boys' school, and the class she is assigned to—Class Z—is a special group filled with problem students. To make matters worse, Machiko, an unmarried senior teacher, sets a condition for granting her the necessary course credits: she must improve Class Z's academic performance.