JUQ-607 - Loving the father-in-law more than my husband... Hamabe Shiho

I've seen other works with Hamabe Shioho and Ozawa Tooru, and those were great too, but this work is an unusual AV where the human relationship between Tooru and Shioho, his son's wife, makes you feel like these two actors were originally a couple – the way they care for each other and the way their desire to make each other happy is so apparent. Shioho, whose relationship with her husband has deteriorated, is drawn to her kind step-father (Tooru) and eventually rushes to Tooru's house after her husband passes away. At first, Tooru is bewildered, but eventually responds to Shioho's unwavering love, and they both fall into each other's sex. That sex is completely natural. Shioho's slightly clumsy acting feels so genuine.

I haven't been a fan of this series, as it feels like it's pandering to older AV fans. But this installment was good. Hamabe-san's acting isn't very skilled. Her interactions with her husband seem fearful, like a victim of domestic violence, even though it doesn't seem to be the intention or the setup. The dialogue during sex is hard to understand, and she keeps her eyes closed the whole time. It was almost a failure, but it was strangely erotic, and I stopped caring about the clumsiness of her acting. I don't know if she's intentionally portraying that kind of character, but the young wife Hamabe-san plays seems to not only have a broken relationship with her husband and lost confidence as a woman, as she says, 'No one loves me,' but also has low self-esteem to begin with, and that's why she depends on her father-in-law – a somewhat dangerous woman. And somehow, that overlapped with Hamabe-san herself, creating a strange sense of sadness and eros. Because of that, despite the title, the woman isn't just becoming a convenient woman for the father-in-law, but also risks becoming a burden to him, and I felt a freshness in the father-in-law's embarrassment. Kimura-san's visuals have a unique vibe that I don't quite connect with. However, the fear of sex that I felt from Sumikawa-san in 'Having a baby-making sex with my husband' was erotic, and this work's Hamabe-san, too, not only captures the sensuality of young women who are still young to be called mature women, but also captures the inner fragility and wavering of the two, and I thought it was wonderful. One thing I'm curious about is that both Sumikawa-san and Hamabe-san seem to be playing the role of full-time housewives, but I wonder if that role is not very realistic for women under 30 these days. I think both of them would be able to show a more vibrant side if they played the role of a working woman.