Cross-media picks for Masaru Konuma fans — films, series, games and books in the same vein.
These picks share a recurring preoccupation: desire as a destabilising force, and the social structures — marriage, class, profession, gender — that strain under its pressure. For fans of Masaru Konuma, you'll find films and series where an affair unravels an otherwise orderly life, books where passion collides with power, and games that explore intimacy and obsession with unusual frankness. The tone is rarely titillating for its own sake; the best of these works treat erotic tension as a lens on vulnerability, control, and what people risk for connection.
Film
Forced Indecency Sisters
A violent roadside encounter spirals into murky obligation and desire between a victim and her rescuer.
Film
Female Teacher: Dirty Afternoon
A teacher drawn into a former student's chaotic sexuality finds the line between helping and implication hopelessly blurred.
Film
Three Wives: Wild Nights
A discovered affair reshuffles the power dynamics of marriage, money, and loyalty with darkly comic momentum.
Film
Sexual Crime
Three people in professional freefall retreat into erotic fantasy as their real lives collapse around them.
Film
Erótica, a Fêmea Sensual
A disfigured woman's insistent desire becomes an act of survival and self-reclamation after catastrophic loss.
Film
Blazing Bondage Lady
A chance encounter with a bondage performance drags a newly married man into guilt, obsession, and danger.
Film
Friday Bedroom
An executive's secret affair teeters on exposure as anonymous phone calls tighten around his double life.
Film
Sexual Assault at a Hotel
An exchange student's secrets and vulnerability attract predatory attention in a tense drama.
Series
Hotman
An unconventional family held together by a devoted single father navigates love's messiness with warmth.
Series
Bangkok Blossom
Three women in 1890s Bangkok fight for autonomy and solidarity against the brutal commerce of desire.
Series
It was sudden, like a storm...
A contented housewife's sudden infatuation fractures her sense of self and domestic certainty.
Series
Madonna
A charismatic teacher's presence ignites the rebellious energy — and adolescent obsession — of a delinquent classroom.
Series
Anjo Mau
A calculating young woman uses desire as a ladder, climbing toward wealth through a rich family's household.
Series
Clean
In a 1903 St. Petersburg brothel, two women begin to resist the ruthless system that owns their bodies.
Series
Player
A woman betrayed abroad is hunted by shadowy forces when she's dragged back to Thailand against her will.
Series
Kare wa, Imouto no Koibito
A timid florist's chance reunion with an old crush is complicated by the maddening interference of her younger sister.
Game
Kara no Shoujo
A 1950s Tokyo murder case wraps a private detective in violence, obsession, and deeply disturbing secrets.
Game
Tricolour Lovestory
A visual novel about freedom, longing, and the invisible constraints that shape the choices we think are our own.
Game
Material Girl
A young woman navigating financial precarity discovers that money and independence come with unexpected costs.
Game
Sakura Sadist
A music student's helpless obsession with the unattainable campus queen drives a bittersweet romantic simulation.
Game
Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll
A Soviet-Japanese student must choose loyalty over longing when ghosts from his family's past resurface violently.
Game
3072 AD
An RPG that folds bondage and power-exchange themes into a far-future science-fiction framework with unusual directness.
Game
one night, hot springs
A transgender woman's hot-spring trip with friends becomes a quietly tense study in belonging and visibility.
Game
Lula: The Sexy Empire
A strategy game that puts the player in charge of an adult entertainment empire with brazen, comic self-awareness.
Book
Wife in Exchange
A woman held captive by a vengeful Spaniard faces possession and passion in a charged historical romance.
Book
Sweet adventure
A young woman travels to Madrid in disguise, finding destiny and dangerous attraction at a foreign court.
Book
Sweet Punishment
A scandalous London beauty is imprisoned by wealth and unexplored desire in a high-society power struggle.
Book
鍵 (Kagi)
Parallel diaries expose a dying marriage's erotic desperation as an aging professor pushes against repression.
Book
Pacific Heat
A writer assigned to interview the woman who stole her husband considers whether revenge can become something else.
Book
One Night at Parenga
Ten years of haunting memory ignite again when a woman returns to reclaim a house — and perhaps something more.
Book
Iron cast
In 1919 Boston, two friends use illicit gifts to con the powerful while running from a law closing in fast.
Book
The chill
A psychological study of feminine desire, its priorities and tensions, approached with clinical intimacy.
Fans of films in this vein will find rich territory in Sexual Crime — three lives in collapse retreating into erotic fantasy — and Blazing Bondage Lady, where a married man's chance encounter with a bondage performance unravels into obsession and danger. The period series Bangkok Blossom takes a different register: three women in 1890s Thailand fighting for autonomy against the commerce of desire.
鍵 (Kagi) is the closest literary match, a novel told through parallel diaries about a marriage unravelling into erotic obsession. Wife in Exchange and Sweet Punishment offer similarly charged power dynamics in a more romantic register.
Kara no Shoujo is a 1950s Tokyo murder mystery with dark psychological undercurrents — obsession and violence tangled together. Sakura Sadist is lighter in tone but centres a consuming, helpless fixation, while 3072 AD explores bondage and power-exchange themes with unusual directness inside an RPG framework.