is a 2014 Japanese TV series followed by a 2017 Japanese film, Hirugao starring Aya Ueto, Takumi Saito and Hiroyuki Hirayama, and produced by Fuji Television Network. The film, directed by Hiroshi Nishitani is based on the drama series of the same title (ja). Story background Sawa sees a home burning from her balcony and later learns that it was arson by one of the homeowners. She also sees the family living in a newly built house who also saw the fire. The next day while working in a supermarket, Sawa sees Rikako, the wife of the family living in the new house, commenting to a colleague that Rikako is pretty. Sawa's shift ends then she admires the lipstick display at the store when some running children knock over the lipstick. She picks them up but, impulsively, shoplifts one lipstick that has scattered far away and away from the view of the security cameras. At that moment, while walking out of the store, police nab a juvenile trying to break into a car. Rikako, who is with her boyfriend (not her husband) grabs Sawa and tells her to act as her friend and she won't reveal the shoplifting. Rikako knows that the police report would list her boyfriend and needs an accomplice to say that all three of them are together for afternoon tea. At the police station, the juvenile's teacher takes the car thief and apologizes. The TV series continues with Rikako being caught by her husband having an affair and Sawa, hesitant at first, succumbs to Rikako's encouragement to have an affair with the teacher. She is caught by the teacher's wife. The settlement is that the teacher couple and Sawa with her husband will move to another city and if there is any future contact, however brief, between the teacher and Sawa, Sawa would be forced to pay the teacher's wife 300,000 yen/month (USD3000/month) for the rest of her life. Plotline for the film Influenced by the novel Belle de Jour by Joseph Kessel, the film follows the story of Sawa, who sleeps with a married man 'heijitsu hirugao tsuma' (while her husband is working). After it becomes known, she moves to escape the harassment, even changing her name. But after the illicit lovers break off the relationship that had resulted in so much destruction, they meet by chance in a small seaside town, and the relationship