Excitement Class: Love Techniques (1972) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained

Release, runtime and language

1972 · 72 mins · Japanese

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Directed by

Noboru Tanaka

Starring

Moeko Ezawa, Kunio Shimizu, Ryoji Nakamura, Hidetoshi Kageyama, Nobutaka Masutomi, Mikiko Sakai

Haunted by his first sexual awakening, teenage Isao becomes obsessed with his gym teacher Ikuko, dreaming of her each night. When he finally confesses, she rebuffs him, prompting Isao to devise a series of schemes aimed at repulsing Ikuko’s fiancé, the school’s chemistry professor. After his attempts backfire, he resorts to a drastic, unknown plan whose consequences are left unsettlingly open‑ended.