R100

Takafumi Katayama is a furniture salesman caring for his teenage son while his wife lies in a coma after an accident. Seeking escape from his grief, he joins a secret S&M club called Bondage. Membership lasts a year, the contract cannot be cancelled, and the dominatrixes of the club may discipline him in public without warning. At first he accepts the arrangement, but the women begin to intrude on his family life, and he tries to break free of an agreement that has no exit.

R100 is a 2013 Japanese comedy-drama directed by Hitoshi Matsumoto, his second feature after Symbol. Matsumoto wrote the screenplay with Tomoji Hasegawa and Mitsuyoshi Takasu, and Nao Omori plays Takafumi, with Mao Daichi, Shinobu Terajima, Hairi Katagiri, Eriko Sato and Ai Tominaga as the club's queens. It was produced by Warner Bros. Pictures and Yoshimoto Kogyo on a budget of about six million dollars, and runs one hundred minutes.

Reception divided. A critics' rating of 6.9/10 from 29 reviews sits well above the audience scores: 5.9/10 on IMDb from roughly 3,100 votes and 5.7/10 on TMDB from about 105 votes.