Undulant Fever

Sensitive and nostalgic film based on an erotic novel by the writer Nakazawa Kei. Nakazawa wrote When I Sense the Sea when she was only 18 years old. The book dates from 1978 and the setting for the film also exudes the atmosphere of that era.
The story is about the unrequited and passionate love of the female student Emiko for the senior student Hiroshi. Emiko is in love with Hiroshi, but he is only interested in sex. Emiko originally gives herself as a slave to Hiroshi, but years later, the roles are reversed.
Undulant Fever was obviously made by an experienced filmmaker. Ando Hiroshi started making films when he was studying and, like many Japanese filmmakers, he also became practiced with what are known as pink pictures (narrative porn films). This latter experience was very useful to him in the case of this film, because it isn’t only a love film, but also a film about sex – and includes the necessary sex scenes.