1957 Japan said 'women having desires? Let's make THAT a crime drama.'
A unique literary work that describes the end of a married woman who rebelled against her husband's adultery and became addicted to her own sexuality.
Acting
Minamida's smoldering descent into self-discovery
Direction
Abe frames desire like a crime scene
Director
Yutaka Abe
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Adapted from Seichō Matsumoto's novel, this arrived during Japan's postwar 'katei shōsetsu' (domestic fiction) boom that quietly interrogated traditional family structures.
Yutaka Abe was Nikkatsu studio's specialist in 'women's pictures'—genre films that smuggled radical gender critique under melodramatic packaging.
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