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Best love story since Brokeback mountain. The 2 characters have such strong chemistry. Kiss scenes and love scenes are tastefully done. The story and the details can be discovered over and over. This is the only drama I have watched over and over and still get touched every single time.

The film especially the ending is enchangtingly painful yet at the same time hauntingly beautiful. The last words "flickering until the day i die" was the final jab of an ember like spear to the heart. The steamy scenes were very graphic but done with finesse, its oozing with feelings of wanting, deception, lust, power, truth, fetish, submission, love? and greed. The whole plot seems complicated but that can so be relatable in real life. The film left me with feelings of believing in love but at the same time the hounds of unrequited affection are just around the corner waiting for that perfect timing to pounce. Again, life has to move on and letting go.....it left with me a naughty smile in the end. Kudos!!!!

The director has managed to make the nude scenes so poetic and captivating.

Raw emotion and desire are presented so nicely.

Amazingly performed, congratulations to the actors. Thanking all the production for this amazingly beautiful oeuvre! It's so beautiful and difficult to transmit all the deeper feelings of a sincere emotional connection in a relation!

In fact, the second installment of the Pornographer series, ie. "Mood Indigo"(prequel to Pornographer) was aired some time a year ago. As it was too painful for me to review it, therefore, it took me a year, to sink-in, in order to write my review without much emotion.

The thing is, with the beautiful love story of Pornographer 2018, I didn't expect this prequel to turn out to be, such blue. If Pornographer was a glass of lemon drink in a hot summer, then, Mood Indigo will be a cup of bitter black coffee. The former will be bright yellow, and the latter will be dull blue...

Perhaps, that was the purpose of the director cum scriptwriter, Miki-san. This second installment, Mood Indigo, was about the past of Kijima-san, at roughly 5 years before the story of Pornographer. It was about how Kijima-san became a pornographer(adult story author) and how he discovered his sexual orientation. It was about his relationship with his Teacher, Gamôda-Sensei(ie. teacher of Kijima-san for his porno work) which, reflected his relationship with his own father - regrets, and atonement.

However, in my opinion, Miki-san took a totally opposite approach in presenting the story, as compared to Pornographer. I reckon that, Miki-san was trying to make the story slightly darker, in order to create a contrast between this, and Pornographer, ie. dark vs. bright; blue vs. yellow; cold vs. warm. While Pornographer was the typical love story between 2 people, sweet and lovey-dovey, sometimes simply spiritual, of the current world. While Mood Indigo represents the darker, quieter, a more suppressed and conservative mode of Showa-style, yet, the craving of desire unleashed.