The film starts in a homeless encampment on the banks of the Yodo river, in Osaka.

A makeshift barrack, with a great view of Osaka's skyscrapers, serves as a shelter for a homeless man. Dogs and ducks are his roommates. An LGBT group held a BBQ party called “Kansai Refugee Day” here. Miro Daikokudo, a gay man who organized the party, says “Gays cannot deliver children. Instead, we deliver arts. I want to revive underground the culture of the Showa-era. (1926-1989)” The camera follows Miro, who is also a comic-book artist/event producer/bar owner, showing his roots in Shin-sekai, a neighborhood in the south of Osaka known for its erotic spots. Miro is the key character connecting people who appear in the film.

Azumi dressed as a woman confidently walks Osaka city

Azumi is a transgender woman who works as a man during the day and goes to a transvestite bar at night. Azumi never misses her hormone shots and she cut off her testicles. Her wish is to die as a woman.

Simone Fukayuki’s photo shoot

Simone is a drag queen pioneer in Japan. “People confuse "drug" and "drag". Some people think I am a drug addict who dresses as a woman. There is a big misunderstanding.”

Atsushi Tani’s photograph exhibition takes place in Paris

Atsushi had a successful exhibition, ”Histoire de l’oeil," at the Eroticism Museum in Paris. He showed thirty-six of his works and all of them sold. The camera follows his visit to Auvers-surOise, where Van Gogh died, along with Yoshifumi Hayashi, an artist living in Paris.

Diedrich’s visit to a hidden temple

Diedrich visits Ishidoji temple, which has tons of stone-buddhas and stone-pagodas. “I've always looked up to non-human beings. I don’t want to live either as a man or as a woman. I just want to live as Diedrich, that is me.” Every evening, Diedrich changes his dress to drag, wears make-up, and goes to work at a bar.

HORI-SHLA

HORISHLA became a tattoo artist after spending three years in jail. He asks young customers what it means for them to get tattoos, “Tatoos are not just about fashion. Are you ready to have this in your whole life?” I have a deep inferiority complex. I am a pessimist.

Meba Kurata talks at a juvenile jail

Meba is a counselor, who used to be a drug addict. ”The focus of my obsession changed from drugs to art.” Meba heals herself by being a performer and a poet. “I hug myself, when I did it …..” (excerpt “Temperature of Loneliness”)

Rubber and Wet & Messy fetishes

“Underline” has a rubber fetish. He really likes the skin-like feeling of rubber. Ai's fetish is getting wet and messy. They both like being wrapped or covered. The camera got into one of their events, where many young people gather.

Broadcast-banned blues musician: Mariko Kobayashi

“Women are a toilet bowl for men… ” ”Men always somehow have the desire to rape…” Mariko always exposes her feelings on her live performance.

A French woman fascinated by Japanese rope arts

Vivienne has been living in Japan for 13 years. She is fascinated by Kinbaku-bi, or beauty of tight binding. She performs around the world with her husband who is a body modification artist. In this documentary, we see footage of her show in a traditional house in Kyoto.

MIDORI is a witch in Kobe

Midori is an SM performer who owns a fetish bar called “IDEA.” “I don’t want customers who just want eroticism as their sexual desire. To me, eroticism is a culture.” She gathered artists on the third anniversary of her bar: a fire-dancer, an animation-dancer, a body modification artist etc. In the climatic ending, a woman held by hooks that pierce her body flies over the audience.

10th marriage anniversary

People gather to celebrate the 10 years of marriage between a sadist husband, an architect, and his masochist wife, an ex-stripper. Miro Daikokudo was the match maker. He says, “As far as I know, it is rare for people who met in my pervert bar to keep their long relationship. I hope you keep your relationship even if you fight sometimes” An exhibitionist, a drag-queen, a gay man, a masochist, fetishists…. many different characters celebrated this anniversary.

They are not different from you

They are like a mirror reflecting you. They live normally like you do, they also think they are a normal people. They struggle with life and have difficulties like you. They live in the same world, breathe the same air. If we want to look for a difference, it might be that they don’t compare or avoid people who are not like them. They accept everyone. In the anniversary party the couple was surrounded by smiling faces. The wife says, “My husband was meant to be with me, because I am a masochist. I totally understand that people have different sexual preferences, and people who are like that respect each other.” The husband says “We are Hentai - perverts. We are the best!”