A 71-minute marriage meltdown where everyone's sleeping with everyone and nobody wins.
Akiko is a housewife bored with her marriage. She has an adulterous affair with a colleague of her husband and decides to follow him to Hong Kong where he has just been transferred. Akiko's husband goes out looking for them without success. Desperate, he lets himself be dragged into the underworld of the city by a mysterious Sino-Japanese man who plunges him into drugs and prostitiution until one day he finally learns the terrible truth about his unfaithful wife.
Direction
Konuma's efficient exploitation grindhouse pacing.
Production
Grimy 1970s Hong Kong locations as moral sewer.
Director
Masaru Konuma
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Nikkatsu's 'Roman Porno' line—studio-mandated sex films that launched Konuma's career and gave auteur freedom within strict runtime and nudity quotas.
Junko Miyashita became Nikkatsu's biggest Roman Porno star; this early role established her specialty in 'respectable women who explode.'
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