Love And Crime

Director: Teruo Ishii
Actors: Aoi Mitsuko, Teruo Yoshida, Asao Koike, Yukie Kagawa, Tatsumi Hijikata
Genres: Drama, Crime, Erotica
Country: Japan
Release Year: 1969
Duration: 92 min
Synopsis:
The first story is a dark horror tale set in the early 1960’s. It follows a married woman (Aoi Mitsuko) who hooks up with a young man (Takashi Fujiki) and together they go for a killing spree. In the second episode Ishii re-imagines the famous, often adapted Abe Sada story, later made familiar to international audiences by Nagisa Oshima in Ai no corrida (Real of the Senses) (1976). After the Abe Sada story comes a very brief two part episode that runs only a few minutes. What follows however is the the longest running seqment in the film. Shot in black & white the fourth episode is a war time set story of a serial killer (Asao Koike). The last story runs about 12 minutes and is maybe the most disturbing of the bunch, thanks to the main character’s husband, a seriously sick / deformed man...