Circa
Tokyo 1870's. A young woman, Oden Takahashi, steals to support the daughter
from her first marriage and her alcoholic second husband. She falls in
love with a young policeman, but is then coerced into becoming the mistress
of a Yakuza boss. After the deaths of her second husband and daughter,
Oden moves to Yokohama where she runs a casino for the mob boss. Her remorseful
first husband and the disgraced policeman follow her. She kills her ex-husband
and the Yakuza boss, but when she tries to escape with the casino cash,
she's arrested and taken to Tokyo for trial.
Nobuo
Nakagawa was generally consider the Master of the Japanese thrillers,
often called the Nippon Hitchcock. His films - including this one - were
enormously successful because they appealed to both the high and lowbrow
audiences. Nakagawa was never reluctant to use buckets of blood nor gratuitous
sexual situations, but his films could also be appreciated as two dimensional
psychological thrillers. He is best known for NEW
GHOST STORY OF YOTSUYA, SNAKE
WOMAN'S CURSE, LADY
VAMPIRE, GHOST
CAT MANSION, THE
GHOST STORY OF KASANE SWAMP and his controversial masterpiece
HELL.
After helming 100 films, Mr Nakagawa died from a stroke in 1984 at age
79.
A
Japanese film with optional ON/OFF English subtitles; widescreen uncut
(73 min.);
for ALL REGIONS, playable on any American DVD machine.
Extras include selected trailers.
Sexual
situations/SemiNudity/Violence
for Mature Audiences