History Film / GuiltyOfRomance

* AntiVillain: Mitsuko, in some ways.
* ArcWords: "I should have never learned words."

* CharacterDevelopment: Kind of a depressing one, even though Izumi herself is experiencing the development as a positive one during the first half of the movie.
* CloudCuckoolander: Izumi’s husband is shown as this with his innocent romance novels.
* CrapsackWorld: As in many other works of Sono.
* DealWithTheDevil: Not in a literal sense, but the relationship between Izumi and Mitsuko can be seen as this.
* TheDragon: The pimp, in a way, assuming Mitsuko is the BigBad.
* ReCut: There is a director’s cut that is half an hour longer than the international version. It digs deeper into the character of detective Kazuko.
* DownerEnding
* EvilMentor: Mitsuko to Izumi.

* JerkAss: [[spoiler: Izumi’s husband at the end.]]
* LadyInRed: Mitsuko.

* SanitySlippage: Basically the whole movie, climaxing in a very insane finale.

* ShoutOut: ''The Castle'' by Creator/FranzKafka.

* UnproblematicProstitution: A very extraordinary case. Mitsuko makes Izumi demand money for her extramarital sex, explaining that she has to value highly her own body.
* WomenAreDelicate: Averted in this film. Some of the female characters act like it, but none of them really are.

''Guilty of Romance'' is a Japanese erotic thriller by Sion Sono, released in 2011.

The narration begins as a brutal murder case in Shibuya, Tokyo (a love hotel district) leaves many questions unanswered. Since the corpse is mutilated beyond recognition (other than it being female), the police can only work off a list of women missing. With this the story takes a turn and centers on the [[HowWeGotHere backstory of one of the women missing]]. Her name is Izumi and she is the wife of a well-known writer of naive romantic novels. Her daily life is dictated by [[CreepyCleanliness his well-mannered life style]]. Things change when she is [[YouWouldMakeAGreatModel called to a model agency]], making her find new respect for her body and starting to use it to seduce men, being unfaithful to her husband. Her journey of self-discovery soon leads her into Shibuya where she makes the acquaintance of the prostitute Mitsuko [[LivingADoubleLife who works as a professor at a university in the daytime]]. Izumi is fascinated by her and follows her through the streets of the district, which is the beginning of a downward spiral without turning back.

* YouWouldMakeAGreatModel: Izumi is told this.

* YourCheatingHeart: Izumi. Kazuko in the director's cut. [[spoiler: Also, Izumi’s husband]].

''Guilty of Romance'' is an Asian erotic thriller by Sion Sono, released in 2011.

* AntiVillain: Mitsuko.

* SpiritualSuccessor: To Film/ColdFish. Both tell basically similar stories. Cold Fish’s protagonists are male instead of female though. Plus, it focuses more on violence than on sexuality (even though both are important in both movies).

* UncannyValley: The mannequin to some degree, which is one of the reasons why the scene of the crime at the beginning of the movie seems so frightening.

The narration begins as a brutal murder case in Shibuya, Tokyo (a love hotel district) leaves many questions unanswered. Since the corpse is mutilated beyond recognition (other than it being female), the police can only work off a list of women missing. With this the story takes a turn and centers on the [[HowWeGotHere backstory of one of the women missing]]. Her name is Izumi and she is the wife of a well-known writer of naive romantic novels. Her daily life is dictated by [[CreepyCleanliness his well-mannered life style]]. Things change when she is [[YouWouldMakeAGreatModel called to a model agency]], making her find new respect for her body and starting to use it to seduce men, being unfaithful to her husband. Her journey of self-discovery soon leads her into Shibuya where she makes the acquaintance of the prostitute Mitsuko [[LivingADoubleLife who works as a professor at a university in the daytime]]. Izumi is fascinated by her and follows her through the streets of the distinct, which is the beginning of a downward spiral without turning back.

* AuthorAppeal: Sono seems to like the name Mitsuko a lot.

* BeneathTheMask: Izumi’s husband is described by her as „pure“, while in reality, he has been a customer of Mitsuko for years. Making out with her is even his way of getting new ideas for his kitchy romance stories.

The narration begins as a brutal murder case in Shibuya, Tokyo (a love hotel district) leaves many questions unanswered. Since the corpse is mutilated beyond recognition (other than it being female), the police can only work off a list of women missing. With this the story [[HowWeGotHere takes a turn]] and centers on the backstory of one of the women missing. Her name is Izumi and she is the wife of a well-known writer of naive romantic novels. Her daily life is dictated by [[CreepyCleanliness his well-mannered life style]]. Things change when she is [[YouWouldMakeAGreatModel called to a model agency]], making her find new respect for her body and starting to use it to seduce men, being unfaithful to her husband. Her journey of self-discovery soon leads her into Shibuya where she makes the acquaintance of the prostitute Mitsuko [[LivingADoubleLife who works as a professor at a university in the daytime]]. Izumi is fascinated by her and follows her through the streets of the distinct, which is the beginning of a downward spiral without turning back.

* AllWomenAreLustful: Izumi, Mitsuko, and also Kazuko in the director’s cut are depicted as lustful. It’s not like the male characters are any better though, [[HumansAreBastards on the contrary]].