Director
Shôhei Imamura
Music (original)
Toshirô Mayuzumi
Cast
Masumi Harukawa, Kô Nishimura, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi
Edition 1998
150'
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1964
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Drama
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Format:
35mm
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Dialogue:
Japanese
This drama explores the fine psychological line between rape and romance as it chronicles the violation of a bored housewife Sadako, while her husband - a weak bully who is having an affair and who treats Sadako as if she were a servant rather than his wife - is away. The next morning, the woman is unable to tell her husband of the rape. Strangely, she finds herself looking forward to the brute's return. He does and she struggles very little. Soon Sadako finds herself fixated on the rapist and unable to get rid of him. In desperation, she decides to poison him. Fortunately, before she can, he suffers a heart attack and dies. The woman calmly resumes her dull life and the story ends. (Sandra Brennan, All-Movie Guide)
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Credits
Directors
Shôhei Imamura
Music (original)
Toshirô Mayuzumi
Cast
Masumi Harukawa, Kô Nishimura, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi
Scenario
Shôhei Imamura, Shinji Fujiwara, Keiji Hasebe
Director of Photography
Shinsaku Himeda
Editors
Mutsuo Tanji
Producers
Jirô Tomoda
More info
Dialogue
Japanese
Countries of production
Japan
Screenplay based on
Akai satsui (Tatsuzō Ishikawa)
Year
1964
Filmography
Shôhei Imamura
Stolen Desire (1958), Nishi Ginza Station (1958), Endless Desire (1958), My Second Brother (1959), Pigs and Battleships (1961), The Insect Woman (1963), Intentions of Murder (1964), The Pornographers (1966), A Man Vanishes (1967), Profound Desires of the Gods (1968), History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess (1970), Karayuki-san, the Making of a Prostitute (1975), Vengeance Is Mine (1979), Why Not? (1981), The Ballad of Narayama (1983), Zegen (1987), Black Rain (1989), The Eel (1997), Dr. Akagi (1998), Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001), September 11 (2002)
Technical Specs
Format
35mm