A gender-swapped portrayal of aesthetic novelist Jun’ichiro Tanizaki’s masterpiece “Manji”, set in modern times.
A story of homosexuality and adultery, and destructive love…

Sonoda was a Japanese salaryman who couldn’t give up on his dream of becoming a painter. He quits his job and begins attending an art school, relying on his lawyer wife, Yayoi, to pay the family’s bills. At school he takes an interest in a handsome young man named Hikari. He invites Hikari over to model for a painting, and the two begin a sexual liaison. Meanwhile, he lets his relationship with his own wife slide. He refuses Yayoi’s advances and drowns himself in his relationship with Hikari, only to discover that Hikari has a fiancée named Kaori.
Sonoda begins to tell his tale to a doctor from his bed in a cold, sterile hospital room. This is just the prelude to a story of love and hate between men and women, and the strange fate they meet…

Junichiro Tanizaki is one of modern Japan’s most famous literary figures, who lived through three major eras of modern Japanese history: Meiji, Taisho, and Showa. Jun’ichiro Tanizaki’s masterpieces “Manji”, an unflinching depiction of the destructive love between men and women who drown themselves in adultery and homosexuality.