Woman’s Trail: Wet Path (1980)
1980A man travels with his pill-popping girlfriend to the headquarters of her yakuza boss husband, in order to claim her for himself.
Actors: Miyako Yamaguchi
Hanezu (2011)
2011Woodwork artist Takumi moves to the small village of Asuka and has an affair with Kayoko, a woman who went to the same school as him and who is living with her boyfriend.
The Woman with Red Hair (1979)
1979Junko Miyashita plays a mysterious hitchhiker picked up by a brute of a construction worker named Kenzo who takes her back to his run-down and cramped apartment in a not so good part of town. Claiming that she is running away from an abusive husband, she shacks up with him. In a futile attempt to escape the bleak working class surroundings, the pair engage in an obsessive erotic relationship.
From Orion’s Testimony: Formula for Murder (1978) aka An Unforgettable Affair
1978Toshihiko, a high school boy, hates Kozo, his father, enough to kill him. His mother had lived in terror of him and, at last, broken in spirit, she had left and her pitiful departing figure is still seared in Toshihiko’s mind. Soon, Kozo marries Asako who is young and beautiful. An idea forms in Toshihiko’s mind to get even with his father for the shabby way he had treated his mother. He wonders if he […]