The Things Between Us (2008) aka Die Dinge zwischen uns

2008

When a married woman discovers her husband’s addiction to visiting brothels, she decides to start visiting them herself and is quickly swept up into a secret life filled with new sexual discoveries. Myriam lives a sheltered existence in a small Catholic town on the Lower Rhine. She is married to Bernd, an ambitious young mayor, and they have just moved into a new house together. They love each other and everything in their life seems […]

The Underground Banker (1994)

1994

A man’s family is torn apart when his wife takes a loan from a loan shark who will stop at nothing to get his money back. Ming (nicknamed Marshmallow) is a pretty ordinary truck driver with a pretty wife Kitty and a charmingly loudmouthed young son Tak. Ming thinks his main troubles are 1) premature ejaculation (which he spends much time and energy fixing) and 2) a just-released murderer moving in next door. But the […]

Play of the Dear Married Woman Summer (2015) aka Sensual Love Story

2015

Yukari’s husband abandoned her and their son Ryo so she lives on the streets and prostitutes herself to get by daily. One day, Yoshio, a young man, takes them in out of kindness. He lives on meager salary from working part-time at a convenience store so Yukari continues on prostituting herself. When the two of them go out to work, Yukari leaves her son for caretaking to Matsuko, who lives next door. Yukari makes sure […]