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Director:
Tatsumi Kumashiro
Writers:
Haruhiko Arai (writer)
Kenji Nakagami (novel)
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Release Date:
17 February 1979 (Japan) more
Genre:
Comedy | Drama more
Plot:
At his working place, Kozo and his colleague gangrape the boss' teenage daughter. Then, on the highway... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
2 wins & 4 nominations more
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Cast

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Junko Miyashita ... Woman with red hair
Renji Ishibashi ... Kozo
Ako ... Kazuko
Moeko Ezawa ... Kozo's siter
Noboru Mitani ... Alcoholic man
Miyako Yamaguchi ... Haruko
Hatsuo Yamaya ... Kozo's siter's lover
Kai Ato ... Takao
Akira Takahashi
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Directed by
Tatsumi Kumashiro 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Haruhiko Arai  writer
Kenji Nakagami  novel

Produced by
Akira Miura .... producer
 
Original Music by
Yuukadan 
 
Cinematography by
Yonezo Maeda 
 
Film Editing by
Akira Suzuki 
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Yasuaki Uegaki .... assistant director
 

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Woman with Red Hair (Europe: English title)
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Runtime:
73 min
Country:
Japan
Language:
Japanese
Colour:
Colour
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Certification:
France:-16 | Singapore:R(A)
Company:
Nikkatsu more

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The wong kar wai of pinku eiga, 29 July 2006
9/10
Author: josephbleazard from United Kingdom

This is the most under-rated movie on IMDb in terms of avg score rating. This is a sophisticated softcore counterpart to "ai no corrida" yet surpasses that film. This film is only an incredibly short 73 minutes long but says almost everything it set out to about the concrete nature of romance in a homosocial and cruel world. This is a realist and working class reclamation of the "passion beyond reason" genre. There are hints of death and perversion amidst dialogue of surpassing clarity. The long shots and absurdity remind me of Tsai Mian Liang. Maybe a dark sense of humour runs through this film, maybe actions in 1970s japan will always be funny to us because of cultural difference, however I belly laughed whilst watching this film but was also deeply moved. Beware, unless you are acquainted with Japanese 1970s pink movies the male leads will be so unsympathetic that you will have no appreciation for their difficulties. Beware also if you are a pinky violence collector only interested in the sex, it is deliberately reduced to clinical joint masturbation and this is a strangely unsexy movie. For everybody else, enjoy, this is profound, moving, funny, well observed, gritty, funny and most of all passionate.

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