

She made 5 adult films. He burned one. The other four? Still burning.
Yukichi Asano and Kiriko, his wife, love each other very deeply and are completely happy in their cozy, little flat. Then Yukichi discovers that Kiriko had once worked in a blue film, a thing unthinkable to a man like Yukichi and his love turns into burning hate and jealousy. He burns the film and tries to forgive his wife's unfortunate past but Kiriko suffers a thousand deaths for she had actually worked in four more blue films.
Acting
Rumi Tama's thousand-yard stare of trapped desperation.
Direction
Hayashi weaponizes the cramped apartment as psychological prison.
Director
Isao Hayashi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pink films (pinku eiga) dominated Japanese grindhouses in the 70s, often pairing explicit content with surprisingly serious social commentary on class and gender.
Director Isao Hayashi was a specialist in 'apartment wife' films—a subgenre exploring trapped domesticity that let female characters carry the narrative weight.
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