Tandem

The story of two men one middle aged one mid twenties who make friends and exchange cigarettes and stories of their sex lives unaware they have unwittingly exchanged partners The story told in flashbacks as the two men travel through the night on a motorcycle is loaded with highly charged eroticism Sex and violence are juxtaposed against the drabness of the mens everyday lives effectively blurring the line between what is real and what is fantasy Founded on the wellknown myth of furtive sexual gropers on the rushhour Tokyo commuter trains Tandem is a lowkey masterpiece of Japanese Pink Cinema