I watched the movie first and then read a few reviews. Again this is not your typical bl type of movie as it has detailed sexual scenes and of course nudity. I myself loved this movie and the rollercoaster of emotions that it brought to the screen with the state of mind of the characters in kyoichi life and how they effected his and imagase well-being.

Imagase was a gay man who looked straight forward into life and knew when he met Kyoichi for the 1st time he fell madly in love. I feel that when they finally meet 8 year later and the progression of there on/off type of love/hate relationship that left him in so much pain was becoming more of an obession that neither could handle.

Kyoichi was a straight man who loved women and sex if you asked him or hinted for sex he would come running. He was married/divorced and had numerous affairs and relationships over the years that he should have ended earlier, but due to his selfishness and being greedy they always ended with the other person in pain. My feelings is that he not affraid of commitment hes afraid of being lonely and doesn't truly understand others emotions & love.

In the end they were just hurting each other by falling into bad patterns of the past, being jeousle and spiteful and again greedy and selfish and wanting more. When they agree to separate it broke my heart to see both of them in pain, but it needed to be done so that they both grow and should find themselves and find true love that needs no more? A beautiful story.
There story is about trust, love and jeousley and why the do and dont work.