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Construction workers Kozo (Renji Ishibashi) and Takeo (Kai Ato)
gangrape their boss's daughter Kazuko (Ako) over frustration about their
job. As a result, Kazuko falls in love with Takeo, mainly because he was
the first one to get a go at her and thus took her virginity. On his way
home, Kozo picks up a hitchhiker, the woman with red hair (Junko
Miyashita), a woman who's especially horny during her period. Soon enough,
she has moved in with him and the two embark on a relationship mainly
based on sex. She won't tell him her name and claims she is runing away
from her abusive husband and/or her boring family life, but he can't help
but suspect something else, which drives him crazy with jealousy on one
hand, but only brings the two yet closer on the other. Takeo meanwhile
learns that Kazuko is pregnant, and while she claims it is, it has to be
his baby, Takeo is not so sure - after all, both he and Kozo have raped
her, right? Takeo still agrees to elope with her, but before that he
demands that Kozo give him permission to rape the woman with red hair ...
out of fairness it seems. Kozo agrees to this, even though that event has
him eaten up by jealousy even more - but in the end, this brings him and
the woman even closer together ... An interesting and haunting
look at abusive relationships in which the tables are usually turned on
the abusers who find themselves far more dependent from their victims
than the other way round. This all though is not brought to the screen as
a big thesis movie but very subtle via an erotic drama/comedy that even
brings a certain elegance to the screen despite its working class
enviroment, and is thus somehow related to Italian neorealismo and in
other instances French Nouvelle Vague. This all is not to say the film
is perfect, as it does have its deficiencies especially on a narrrative
level, bt it's at least worth a look ...
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