Mitsu no aware (2016)
Release Year: 2016
Nation: N/A
Alternative Title: 蜜のあわれ, Bitter Honey
Director: Gakuryû Ishii
Writer: Saisei Murô, Takehiko Minato
Production & Genre
Keywords
Keywords: asian woman, cheater, coming of age, east asian woman, fish monger, fishmonger, goldfish in a plastic bag, ill wife, interspecies sex, leg, legs, love, man girl relationship, metamorphosis, nymphomaniac, older man younger woman relationship, poetry, prose, shapeshifter, sick wife
Story
Akako, a shape-shifting goldfish in the form of a coquettish nymphet clad in diaphanous red dresses, naively plays the role of erotic muse and adoring pet for an aging writer seeking greatness. Things quickly get complicated for the odd couple, however, when the writer's deceased former student/lover enters the picture as a ghost and helps Akako realize her own desires, activating her agency and frustrating the one-sided male fantasy the writer is so keen to continue.
Summary
Based on novelist Muro Saisei's 1959 book, Bitter Honey narrates the story of a poet who informed by his physician of his impending death finds renewed flights of fantasy. He is visited by a thin and attractive girl in red who bec...
