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The Woman with Red Hair

1979 · 73 min

A claustrophobic, slow-burn descent into obsessive desire and working-class despair, emotionally heavy and visually bleak.

Overview: Junko Miyashita plays a mysterious hitchhiker picked up by a brute of a construction worker named Kenzo who takes her back to his run-down and cramped apartment in a not so good part of town. Claiming that she is running away from an abusive husband, she shacks up with him. In a futile attempt to escape the bleak working class surroundings, the pair engage in an obsessive erotic relationship.

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Tone: bleakstrength 3 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: isolation
obsession
class
survival
loneliness
Places: big city
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: single location
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex strong

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	1
Horror	2
Humour	1
Realism	8
Romance	4
Tension	6
Darkness	8
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Tatsumi Kumashiro
Written by: Haruhiko Arai
Starring: Junko Miyashita, Renji Ishibashi, Аko, Miyako Yamaguchi, Hatsuo Yamaya, Noboru Mitani, Kai Ato, Moeko Ezawa
Music: Yukadan
Cinematography: Yonezō Maeda
Runtime: 73 min
Country: Japan
Languages: Japanese

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