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Japan's manga culture is awash with sexual fluidity and deviance but few of those grinning gross-out stories have made it to the big screen. One notable exception is 1999's Sasayaki (Moonlight Whispers), a feature-film by Akihiko Shiota. Two 17-year-olds, Takuya (Kenji Mizuhashi) and Satsuki (Tsugumi), start a conventional romance but Takuya's needs are anything but. First he tells Satsuki to treat him like a dog. Then unbeknown to her, he smells her socks, photographs her legs (how Japanese cinema loves voyeuristic kink) and wants to kiss her feet and suck her toes...
...With reporting by Satsuki Oba/Tokyo
...second empty tank and miraculously didn't leak outside.'' Still, the slick poses a threat to marine life in the area. By early Thursday it covered an area of the bay about 9.4 miles by 11 miles and was moving westward, rather than north toward Tokyo. TIME's Satsuki Oba reports the news caused residents of the city to breathe an enormous sigh of relief. But not everyone was bursting with joy. Early this morning, a severed ox head was found on the front steps of the house where the tanker company president lives...
...With reporting by Satsuki Oba/Tokyo
...Reported by Eric J. Lyman and Douglass Stinson/Lima and Irene M. Kunii and Satsuki Oba/Tokyo