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A Woman Called Sada Abe

1975 · 76 min

A claustrophobic, erotic descent into obsession, with a slow, unsettling build toward a shocking, intimate crime.

Overview
A true-life tale of a broken woman whose hedonistic tryst with a high-class restaurateur resulted in a horrific crime of passion that littered Tokyo headlines in 1936.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • bleakstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 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
  • obsession
  • love
  • madness
  • isolation
  • sexuality
Places
  • big city
  • single country house
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • true story
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore strong
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex strong
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror5
Humour1
Realism7
Romance6
Tension7
Darkness9
Complexity6
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
crime, drama, romance
Directed by
Noboru Tanaka
Written by
Akio Ido
Starring
Junko Miyashita, Eimei Esumi, Nagatoshi Sakamoto, Genshū Hanayagi, Hiroshi Gojo, Ikunosuke Koizumi, Ran Chihaya, Akira Hisamatsu
Music
Koichi Sakata
Cinematography
Masaru Mori
Runtime
76 min
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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