Set just before the turn of the 21st century, a grisly murder occurs in Maruyama-cho, Shibuya - the sordid love hotel district of Tokyo. During the police investigation, the story interweaves with Izumi, the wife of a famous romantic novelist whose life has become staid and repetitious. In act of blatant sexual rebellion Izumi accepts a job as a naked model, faking sex in front of the camera. Her sexual awakening takes a darker turn after she meets Mitsuko, - a college professor who moonlights as a prostitute – and begins selling her body to the highest bidder while simultaneously maintaining the façade of a proper subservient Japanese housewife.

GUILTY OF ROMANCE - the latest film of punk provocateur and rising star of Japanese cinema, Sion Sono - is the dramatic account of the lives of two women as they traverse a whirlwind of sex, madness and death.