Drowning Love (溺れるナイフ, Oboreru Knife) is a 2016 Japanese film directed by Yūki Yamato and based on the manga series of the same name by George Asakura.

She is forced to give up her dream and move to her father's hometown of Ukigumo to help run her ailing grandfather's inn.

There, she meets Koichiro Hasegawa (Masaki Suda), a young heir to a wealthy and deeply influential family, and for whom she will quickly start developing a romantic interest that will blossom in a tale of rough, passionate, and dangerous love.

The film calls to question sexuality, adult desires & roles assigned to members of society.

[4] Edmund Lee of South China Morning Post rated the film 2.5/5, saying that the emotions are captured in an "alternately ecstatic and frustrating" fashion, and criticizing the film's decision to anchor the central narrative around the sexual assault scene.