Released in late 2023 in Japan, A Spoiling Rain stars the up-and-coming Honami Sato, top male actors Go Ayano and Tasuku Emoto (husband of Sakura Ando), and porn star Minamo.
Honami Sato previously did very revealing lesbian sex scenes in Ride or Die with co-star Kiko Mizuhara, who seemed on a mission to prove she could act by revealing as much of her body as possible.
This might have inspired her casting in A Spoiling Rain, since it calls for her to do an explicit lesbian sex scene with Minamo.
The movie is about a pink film (sexploitation) director, a screenwriter, and their lover.
Sato’s lesbian scene with Minamo takes place nonchalantly in the bedroom while the two men casually watch.
Somewhat strangely, Minamo’s scenes are in black and white, though her short dyed hair and sensual body more than brighten up the shots.
In another scene (thankfully in color), Honami Sato is shown riding Tasuku Emoto on the floor (which we presume is not the most comfortable place to do it).
It’s a rule of thumb we’ve seen practiced in many Japanese movies and TV shows. If the scene calls for extensive nudity, you might struggle to find an established actress willing to shed her clothes, but an AV performer will be more than capable of fulfilling the brief.
The film is written and directed by Haruhiko Arai, a veteran member of the pink and independent film industry. He wrote Kabukicho Love Hotel, which cemented Atsuko Maeda’s status as a serious actress after leaving AKB48.
Some of the films he has made fall into that ambiguous category of movie where it purports to be a serious film but is effectively sexploitation with a bit of dressing up (several of the films by Sion Sono are like this, just don’t let the critics and film festival fans hear you say it).
In the case of A Spoiling Rain, the film is about pink cinema and also ends up (in part) behaving like an example of one.
Tasuku Emoto was in another film a bit like this — the very explicit It Feels So Good (also directed by Arai), with lots of nudity from beautiful co-star Kumi Takiuchi.
