Tumugi AkariTsumugi is a successful president who feels empty inside. A younger new employee sees through her hidden desires. Just talking to him makes her body ache, and his touch makes her want to lose everything. The office turns into a bedroom, where she spreads her legs and accepts pleasure, realizing this is what she truly wanted. A full-scale drama about a career woman awakening to her submissive side.
A work featuring my favorite actress, Tsumugi Akari, playing a woman with a desire to be dominated. I watched it carefully from the beginning to the first scene with high expectations, but it was ultimately underwhelming. The psychology of wanting to be dominated involves the relief of responsibility and anxiety (the desire to be freed from the pressure of making decisions), ultimate trust and affection (the deep sense of security that someone will love and protect you even if you surrender everything), and the reinforcement of self-esteem (feeling one's worth by being strongly desired and controlled). In a relationship, this requires clear roles (a balance between the S who wants to lead and the M who wants to submit), a distinction between the mundane and the extraordinary (enjoying 'submission' only with a specific partner despite being independent otherwise), and mutual boundaries built on trust. The film needed to show early on how the S-natured employee fits into the void in the M-natured female CEO's heart. It requires a dynamic where the employee can take over the CEO's decision-making, a sense of trust, and the resulting self-affirmation—all while adding the thrill of being teased by an S, the ability to separate work from private life, and maintaining a professional boundary rather than just being overly familiar. Therefore, simply forcing her into a crawling position feels wrong. It would have been more compelling to show the CEO, who usually puts up a strong front, revealing her vulnerability after drinking, and then having the S-natured partner liberate her from her burdens, clearly separating the 'daily' work life from the 'extraordinary' private life, and teasing out her M-side. It would have been more interesting to keep the work scenes strictly in the office and the private scenes strictly in a love hotel. The office play ruined the entire atmosphere; it's a failure of direction. I can't help but feel the theme was just too much for the director to handle.
The lighting is great, which really makes Tsumu-tsumu's skin look beautiful. Plus, it's great how she shows off her slender physique so sexily.
