Who is it that sends a threatening letter demanding 100 million yen in exchange for distributing "poisoned rice" to boost sales of a famous brand of rice? As instructed, the bag of rice stuffed with money is thrown from the railway bridge into the riverbank. A street performer gets caught up in an incident through an unexpected incident and contacts a woman who is thought to be an accomplice in an attempt to clear his name, but the incident eventually escalates into murder...
Direction
Takita's surprisingly crisp compositions for 1985 pink cinema.
Writing
Ridiculous poisoned-rice blackmail scheme played straight.
Director
Yojiro Takita
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Takita directed dozens of pink films before his 2008 Oscar win for Departures, making this perhaps the most extreme career trajectory in cinema history.
The 'groper train' subgenre flourished in 1980s Japan as a dark mirror of packed commuter reality, with this entry adding bizarre corporate crime elements. The poisoned-rice scheme specifically parodies real 1980s food contamination scandals.
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