is a 2005

2005 in film

- Highest-grossing films :Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top-grossing films that were first released in the United States in 2005...

 Japan

Japan

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ese pink film directed by Minoru Kunizawa

Minoru Kunizawa

aka is a Japanese film director, screenwriter, and actor best known for his work in the pink film genre. Including Yutaka Ikejima, Yumi Yoshiyuki and Tarō Araki, Kunizawa is one of the four top directors of Ōkura Productions at the turn of the millennium, and the only one of the four who did not...

. It won the award for Seventh Best Film at the Pink Grand Prix

Pink Grand Prix

The or is an annual Japanese film award ceremony which recognizes excellence in the pink film. Known as the "Academy Awards of the Pink Film", the ceremony attracts a diverse audience of industry personnel, film scholars and the general public....

 ceremony.

Synopsis

Etsuko, the wife of the respected pharmacist Mikami, is lusted after by Mikami's assistant, Numakura. Numakura plans to poison Mikami and to claim Etsuko as his own, but Viagra

Sildenafil

Sildenafil citrate, sold as Viagra, Revatio and under various other trade names, is a drug used to treat erectile dysfunction and pulmonary arterial hypertension . It was originally developed by British scientists and then brought to market by the US-based pharmaceutical company Pfizer...

 is substituted for the poison, thereby thwarting Numakura's plans.

Cast

• Ruri Tachibana as Etsuko Mikami
• Shiina Aoi as Ami Yūki
• Kanae Mizuhara as Masumi Kōsaka
• Manzō Morira as Akira Mikami
• Norio Manta as Hitoshi Numakura
• Takashi Kubo as Katsutoshi Sōma

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Minoru Kunizawa

Minoru Kunizawa

aka is a Japanese film director, screenwriter, and actor best known for his work in the pink film genre. Including Yutaka Ikejima, Yumi Yoshiyuki and Tarō Araki, Kunizawa is one of the four top directors of Ōkura Productions at the turn of the millennium, and the only one of the four who did not...

 filmed Lustful Wife in Black: Aching for Freak Out production studio, and it was released theatrically in Japan by OP Eiga

OP Eiga

, also known as is the largest and one of the oldest independent Japanese studios which produce and distribute pink films. Along with Shintōhō, Kantō, Million Film, and Kōji Wakamatsu's production studio, Ōkura was one of the most influential studios on the pink film genre...

on February 1, 2005. OP re-released the film on March 7, 2008 under the title .