Minori (Yumeka Sasaki) is a photographer with a bad habit of getting involved with unavailable, married, and/or attached men. Her latest assignment has her working alongside a reporter named Shinichi (Mikiya Sanada) on a story about a reclusive manga artist (Fuyu Ooba). When the interview proves fruitless, their editor (Masahiko Hori) forces Shinichi into forging a fabricated article. This action sets into motion a chain of romance and heartbreak between the two co-workers.
Twitch: You are My Toy is certainly an odd title for such a small, forgettable, and if we’re being completely honest, unsexy movie. Nobody twitches and I don’t remember anybody getting treated like a toy. It’s a Japanese flick, so maybe something got lost in translation along the way, but I still kinda doubt it.
Even though this is technically a Japanese “Pink” movie, it feels more like a cheap soap opera with an occasional dash of T & A and softcore sex scenes here and there. All the characters are vaguely interconnected and have thinly sketched backstories. The details of their various histories with one another are slowly doled out throughout the film, but it ultimately never comes together in a meaningful way. Since we only know fragments of where the characters have been and never get a chance to see where they are going (thanks to the abrupt ending), it’s hard to care very much about them. It winds up feeling like we’ve caught an episode of a soap opera midway through a season and there’s no real way for us to catch up. The short running time (it’s only forty-seven minutes long) only adds to the TV soap feeling.
As far as the sex scenes go, they are OK, I guess. I would’ve like to have seen more of them, but the ones we do get aren’t bad. However, they’re not nearly steamy enough to compensate for the lackluster melodramatics.
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