It Feels So Good 
火口のふたり「Kakou no Futari」
Release Date: August 23rd, 2019
Duration: 115 mins.
Director: Haruhiko Arai
Writer: Haruhiko Arai (Script), Kazufumi Shiraishi (Novel),
Starring: Tasuku Emoto, Kumi Takiuchi,
The story is simple. Two 30-something friends meet in Akita on the eve of one’s wedding and they rekindle the flames of passion they shared for each other when they were younger. An agreed one night stand becomes five nights of sex and, in the moments between intercourse, they confess their less than stellar present lives and rake over their history to find some way to face an uncertain future.
It Feels So Good is the third film from veteran writer Haruhiko Arai. His last one was a rather staid drama called This Country’s Sky (2015) but he got his start writing Roman Porno titles like Woman with Red Hair (1979). He worked with Ryuichi Hiroki and adapted books for films in Vibrator (2003) and It’s Only Talk (2005). He adapts another book, this one by Kazufumi Shiraishi, but, like his work with Hiroki, he brings about another film full of complex adults having adult relationships.
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