S&X (aka S to X) is a new Japanese Netflix drama about Ichito Shimotori, a sex therapist who sees patients facing intimate issues they can't talk about with anyone else. Ignoring the ridicule and prejudice he receives for his chosen profession, he treats each patient with utmost sincerity and respect. But little do the people around him know that he hides an anxiety of his own. It is a live-action adaptation of a manga by Kisei Tada subtitled "confessions of a therapist." Kento Nakajima plays the lead role. According to Netflix: Rooted in the idea that everyone carries private sexual ...

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The Japanese movie The Stars and Moon Are Holes in the Sky stars Go Ayano as a disillusioned, divorced novelist, who fills his life with fleeting affairs and encounters with prostitutes while pining for his ex-wife. Yes, this is another of those movies where the protagonist is handsome and successful, but we are expected to feel sorry for him because he can't seem to get anything out of the empty sex he has with beautiful women. It's a tough ol' life. The film features several sex scenes between Ayano and considerably younger actresses: Sakuya plays a doe-eyed student and Akari Misaki a ...

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