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1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
A dutiful, unhappy lawyer's wife falls in love with a young, mysterious woman she encounters at an art class. Soon their affair involves her husband and the young woman's impotent lover and together the four slowly descend into web of desire, deceit, blackmail, blood oaths and suicide pacts.
Not rated, contains nudity and sex scenes.
screenplay by Kaneto Shindo ; directed by Yasuzo Masumura.
Based on a novel by Tanizaki Juʼnichirō.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1964.
"Anamorphic widescreen DVD enhanced for 16 x 9 TVs"--Container.
Special features include original theatrical traliler, Yasuzo Masumura biography and filmography, photo and stills gallery.
Wakao Ayako, Kishida Kyōko, Kawatsu Yūsuke, Funakoshi Eiji.
In Japanese with optional English subtitles.
Kantoku, Masumura Yasuzō ; kyakuhon, Shindō Kaneto.