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児童相談所虐待対策班で働く新人児童福祉司の坂本大河（中山優馬）は、ある日、シングルマザーの母親に虐待され、一時保護所にいた４歳の藤沢芽衣を母親の元に帰す現場に立ち会う。
翌日、大河は芽衣が亡くなったと知らされショックを受ける。上司の安川（前川泰之）から休養を取るように言われる大河だが、生前の芽衣が「家に帰りたくない！」と訴えていた姿を思い出し苦悩した末、辞表を手に職場へ向かう。その時、父親にひどい虐待を受け、病院に搬送された６歳の増田星羅（太田結乃）の元へ向かってもらえないかと職場から電話が入る。病院で面会した大河に星羅は、「いまのパパはいらない……家に帰りたくない」と告白する。父親の勝一（吉沢悠）は、星羅の傷は「娘が自分でやったこと」と虐待を否定。大河たちが星羅を一時保護すると告げると、「星羅は私の娘だ！連れて帰る！」と怒鳴り出す。医師から星羅の傷は、虐待によるものである可能性が高いと聞かされた大河は、星羅を一時保護所に預け、弁護士の秋庭詩音（夏菜）と共に虐待の事実を立証し、勝一と妻の典子（灯敦生）の親権を停止にできないかと奔走するのだが……。
Screenplay
ハッキングやサイバーセキュリティーをかいくぐるハイテク犯罪が当たり前の近未来。探偵・明智小五郎（永山絢斗）は大富豪・岩瀬庄兵衛（中村梅雀）から誘拐予告された娘・早苗（福本莉子）の身辺警護を依頼される。立ちはだかるのは高価な宝石を巧妙な贋作とすりかえる謎の怪盗・黒蜥蜴。早苗をかくまうと名乗り出たホテルオーナー・緑川婦人（りょう）こそ黒蜥蜴と見破り誘拐を防ぐが、ホテル全体に仕掛けられたトリックに阻まれ、取り逃がしてしまう。しかしその時、怪盗と名探偵は密かに恋に落ちていた。早苗を「人間椅子」のトリックで奪われながらも黒蜥蜴を追い詰めていく明智はやがて黒蜥蜴の悲しい過去と驚くべき正体を知る。謎が謎を呼び、禁断の恋にゆれながら、鑑賞者のいない黒蜥蜴の秘密の美術館で怪盗と名探偵は最後の対決を繰り広げる。勝者は果たして誰か。
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A drama in which Yasuko Sawaguchi starred in the movie for the first time in nine years since "Autumn Autumn" and played an elementary school teacher who loves children. Tomoyo Miki became a third-grade class teacher at the transferred elementary school. Children with a variety of circumstances, such as children with a "situation mood disorder" that cannot speak at all at school, and children with a lot of troubled behaviors who have a poor life due to the debt of their divorced mother and father. Tomoyo, in cooperation with his classmates and parents, face each other with all his might. The original is a novel of the same name by Fumiko Shibakaki who has experience as a primary school teacher. Sawaguchi plays the role of Tomoyo Miki, a female teacher of the main character, and Yuhiro Murata, Kumiko Endo, Yuriko Hoshi and others set aside.
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Three stories are told, respectively set in Tokyo, Taipei, and Shanghai. The first two stories are about a Japanese person and a Taiwanese person. The last one is set in Shanghai with a story about a Japanese man and a Chinese woman. Some of the characters can speak Japanese and some of them Mandarin. Each story encompasses an experience of a foreigner, either from Japan ,Taiwan or China, with a native of the opposite country.
Screenplay
When a young woman witnesses a suicide she is so overwhelmed with sexual excitement that she masturbates, unaware that she is being observed by a strange man. Later he invites her home where she is wined and dined. Soon she wakes up to find herself locked in a cage. Of course their twisted and sadomasochistic relationship will end in a sadistically explicit bloodbath... The version of "All Night Long 5" I have is in Japanese, but the above synopsis is general gist. I'm a big fan of Katsuya Matsumura and I absolutely love the first three "All Night Long" movies."All Night Long R" is also pretty good whilst still being deeply disturbing.Unfortunately "Initial O" is too long and sometimes dull, so I was a little bit disappointed.Still there is plenty of sex and some unsettling sexual torture on display. There is not enough gore,but some scenes (for example throat slashing or castration) are particularly nasty.
