One bad decision snowballs into a full-blown apartment complex nightmare.
Shizu is a housewife whose husband has just flown to Germany to work in his company's branch office. During her husband's absence, Shizu makes her first fatal mistake with her brother-in-law which leads to other men and her involvement with gangsters, dragging her into a mire from which she cannot escape.
Direction
Nishimura turns cramped apartments into psychological prisons.
Acting
Rumi Tama's descent from dignity to desperation.
Director
Shōgorō Nishimura
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Nikkatsu's 'Apartment Wife' series, which exploited Japan's 1970s economic anxiety about salarymen abroad and wives left unsupervised.
Rumi Tama was already a pink film veteran; this role's bleakness reportedly convinced her to pivot toward directing her own films within two years.
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