In a small Japanese village at the end of the 19th century, a rickshaw driver's wife takes on a much younger lover and the two conspire to murder him.
Takahiro Tamura
as Gisaburo
Kazuko Yoshiyuki
as Seki
Tatsuya Fuji
as Toyoji
Takuzō Kawatani
as Inspector Hotta
Akiko Koyama
as Young Master's Mother
Taiji Tonoyama
as Toichiro
Kenzō Kawarasaki
as Young Master
Sumie Sasaki
as Odame
Eizō Kitamura
as
Takaaki Sugiura
as
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I am a great fan of Ôshima's work, though unfortunately I have only seen previously six films of his, all between 1965's 'Pleasures of the Flesh' and 1976's extremely controversial 'In the Realm of the Senses'. This, like the latter, was a period piece that looked at a doomed relationship (this time...