A brother and sister live as outcasts from their hamlet due to a belief that mental illness runs in their family. A group of villagers plot to steal their property by beating and hanging the brother and gang-raping the sister. Believing the brother to be dead, scheming to kill the sister, and making both deaths look like accidents... unbeknownst to them, the brother survives and proceeds on a mission to slaughter those responsible in the hamlet.
Direction
Wakamatsu compresses exploitation into art brut.
Editing
Jagged cuts that refuse you comfort.
Director
Kōji Wakamatsu
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
1969 Japan: student riots, treaty protests, and Wakamatsu channeling collective rage into rural gothic. The 'outcast' motif echoes burakumin discrimination rarely acknowledged in cinema.
Wakamatsu allegedly shot this in three days on leftover sets. The cheapness becomes style — claustrophobic framing that traps you with complicity.
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