Ambiguous (曖昧, Aimai) also known as Waisetsu Netto Shūdan Ikasete!! (猥褻ネット集団 いかせて!!) and Group Suicide: The Last Supper (集団自殺 最後の晩餐, Shūdan Jissatsu: Saigo no Bansan) is a 2003 Japanese Pink film directed by Toshiya Ueno. It was chosen as Best Film of the year at the Pink Grand Prix ceremony.
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Plot
A diverse group of people, all with troubles in their daily lives, meet online and decide to commit suicide together. Isolated from society at large, they form a physical bond as the appointed time approaches.
Cast
Hidehisa Ebata as Hanko
Noriko Murayama as Maria/Michiko Sano
Nikki Sasaki as Screen/Mamiko Yoshida
Minami Aoyama as Myû/Kazuki Aikawa
Akio Kurauchi as Innocent/Yutaka Matsunaga
Yôta Kawase as Yukio Sano
Suzuka Takaki as Miyuki
Mika Ogawa as Ami
Rie Sumiyoshi as Matsunaga's mother
Shirô Shimomoto as Shop Owner
Takeshi Itô as Shop Worker
Kinuta as Fat Woman
Reception
Anglophone pink film scholar Jasper Sharp notes that there are two different audiences for contemporary pink films: The traditional pink theater-goer who is generally interested in seeing sex on the screen, and the devotees of pink cinema represented by such publications as P*G magazine and its website. As with many of Kokuei's pink films, Ambiguous did not prove very marketable for the traditional softcore porn audience, in part because of its downbeat subject matter. However, when looked at as a film which happens to include sex scenes—Kokuei's approach to the pink genre—Sharp writes Obscene Internet Group "stands as one of the most genuinely insightful and of-the-moment films produced within the Japanese independent sector in its year."
The readers of P*G magazine showed their approval of the film by awarding it Best Film and giving Hidekazu Takahara the Silver Prize for screenplay.
Release
Like many pink films, Ambiguous has gone under more than one title. Originally released in theatres as Obscene Internet Group: Make Me Come!!, the film was shown at the Pink Grand Prix under the title Ambiguous, the title under which it was also released on DVD in Japan and internationally.
Home media
The film has also been released on DVD in Japan as Group Suicide: The Last Supper. Sacrament released the film as "Ambiguous" on English-subtitled Region 2 DVD on 22 February 2006.