Salmon SakeyamaHirokio AndoYoko SatomiYukine Sakuragi
A Woman Who is Dragged into a Lewd World
Also known as: Tsurekomu Onna: Harenchi Ikuukan
Medium: film
Year: 2020
Writer/director: Daisuke Yamanouchi
Actor: Yukine Sakuragi, Ayumi Kimino, Coco Nanahara, Yoko Satomi, Shinra Manzo, Hirokio Ando, Yota Kawase, Kani Masamitsu, Kei-Chan, Salmon Sakeyama
Country: Japan
Keywords: boobs, fantasy, ghost
Language: Japanese
Format: 81 minutes
Website category: J-sleaze
Review date: 26 February 2026
Tsurekomu Onna
It's a bit dreamlike and comes in two halves. The first half involves prostitution, violence, a woman getting murdered, etc. That's normal for Daisuke Yamanouchi. Our heroine, Aimi, is a sex worker who rarely talks or emotes. She seems uninterested and emotionless as she services one particularly crass john. She's going through the motions. She gets fired from her soapland job (because customers find her scary) and becomes a street prostitute instead.
Other characters appear. Kaoru is a possibly mute and/or retarded man on the streets with a sign around his neck to say he's a street poet selling a collection of thoughts. Aimi has a friendly, vivacious soapland colleague. Less fortunate, though, is the bestial homeless woman in kabuki-like make-up, clutching a doll as if she believes it's her baby. She growls and snarls. Later, she picks up a man, masturbates him and gets strangled.
The film's second half is more peaceful, but odder.
Kaoru appears to be a sex god. We meet a theoretical physicist researching parallel worlds, then Aimi's dead parents. She has long, deep conversations with dad in scenes with deep, dark blue lighting. She wants to apologise to him, but has absolutely no intention of talking about mum.
I had no idea where any of that was going. Aimi's deceased father (played by the memorable Youta Kawase) has a story about the old days, reminding you that this is a Daisuke Yamanouchi film. Kaoru ends up swaddled in bandages because someone beat him black and blue, but he's still on the streets and clueless. I'm not sure if he's even sentient. He doesn't speak. I didn't understand the epilogue (time jumps? next generation?), but I liked it.
This is one of Daisuke Yamanouchi's stranger, more ethereal movies. The title suggests other worlds and realities, but it's also misleading because the sleaze and prostitution is all in the film's first half, not the second. No one gets pulled into that. On the contrary, Aimi escapes from it (assisted by a "one year later" time skip) and re-establishes her relationship with her father. It's nice. Just don't ask me what it means. That bracelet with a primitive swirly design on it, for instance... what the hell is that? Does "come from another world" mean the afterlife? If so, how? And why? Accept that this film is an experience and don't expect to understand its timeline and what happened when.