Helpful Score: 1
The story about the gay high school teacher and his prostitute turned lover is at times sweet, touching, heartbreaking and disheartening. Mr. Sakura is a gay man in a position of teacher in a religious school and forced to hide his identity to his colleagues. Ryoichi is a younger man who frequents a male brothel where Sakura picks him up for a loveless one night. Their relationship continues when Sakura hires Ryoichi to stay with him over his week long summer break. Miyamoto doesn't skirt around the negative attitudes of people put under this kind of strain, either. Sakura in particular seems to struggle with his life choices and takes a lot of his frustrations out on Ryoichi, and we aren't expected to "forgive" him for those weaknesses, either (as the one "non-con" scene shows). He must come to terms with those mistakes and make new choices to bring about a more postive future for himself and Ryoichi.
