Three young boys drunkenly rape a woman named Emiko, the wife of a man they've developed a friendship with. She dies of heart failure during the attack. Her chicken farmer husband, incapable of dealing with her death tends to her corpse as though it were still alive completely unable to accept her demise.
Director: Noboru Tanaka
Cast: Hideo Murota, Noriko Kurosawa, Akiko Shikata, Masato Furuoya, Hiroshi Fukami, Akira Sakai, Moeko Ezawa, Hōsei Komatsu
Three young boys drunkenly rape a woman named Emiko, the wife of a man they've developed a friendship with. She dies of heart failure during the attack. Her chicken farmer husband, incapable of dealing with her death tends to her corpse as though it were still alive completely unable to accept her demise.
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Three young boys drunkenly rape a woman named Emiko, the wife of a man they've developed a friendship with. She dies of heart failure during the attack. Her chicken farmer husband, incapable of dealin…
1h 36m
July 8, 1978
Noboru Tanaka
Hideo Murota, Noriko Kurosawa, Akiko Shikata
Drama, Crime