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Wife Collector

1985 · 63 min

A grim, claustrophobic descent into a predator's routine, cold and unpleasant to sit through.

Directed by: Hisayasu Satō
Genres: Drama
Starring: Minako Ogawa, Naomi Hagio, Katsumi Ôtaki

Overview: A taxi driving, punk rock listening, serial rapist with a bad attitude picks up female fares, sedates them with gas and takes them to his grungy lair where he video tapes his sexual abuse.

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Directed by: Hisayasu Satō
Genres: Drama
Starring: Minako Ogawa, Naomi Hagio, Katsumi Ôtaki

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Tone
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: violence
obsession
isolation
crime
power
Places: big city
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language strong
Violence strong
Sex strong

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	2
Horror	6
Humour	1
Realism	7
Romance	0
Tension	7
Darkness	9
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Hisayasu Satō
Written by: Shūji Kataoka
Starring: Minako Ogawa, Naomi Hagio, Katsumi Ôtaki, Naoko Takeda, Taketoshi Watari, Manzo Saita, Kazuya Toyoda, Yutaka Ikejima
Music: Takashi Akutagawa
Cinematography: Kōichi Saitō
Runtime: 63 min
Country: Japan
Languages: Japanese

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