Classic Japanese cinema for serious filmophiles, directed by Nagisa Oshima in 1966. The brutal story of real-life rapist and serial murderer Eisuke, and his relationship with his protective schoolteacher wife Matsuko and his only surviving victim Shino. Oshima takes the format of the 'real-life crime drama and uses it as a canvas to lay bare the lost idealism and decay in postwar Japan. Stars Hideo Kanze, Hideko Kawaguchi, Saeda Kawaguchi.