Mikio Naruse was essentially dramatic-family director often exploiting this thematic genre, in this neo Japanese Noir he keeping dealing with human emotions even in a murdering plot, actually the picture didn't focused in solve the case, it remains at large, eventually the police appears here and there almost bureaucratically, the summarized plot is about an extra-marital affair where the beauty mistress went to die in Tokyo's apartment, the perpetrator is Keijo Kobayashi a kind of family man, turns out that such lover is his best friend's wife played by Tatsuya Mihashi, then eaten up by guilt Kobayashi enters in despair ends up confessing for his faithful wife Michiyo Aratama, however just the marital betrayal.
It seemingly wasn't enough appease his heart, once more falling apart he has to telling to his wife that in fact was the strangler by accident, even baffled Michiyo pleading for secrecy, although it doesn't takes to long, the remorseful Kobayashi has a nerve to tell the awful truth to Mihashi claiming for his contempt, instead an early anger Mihashi seems not care about it, actually he understands that his former wife was a worthless woman, then in a dead end Kobayashi decides to turn himself into the police.
The picture points out utterly in the Japanese background concerning the honor, whereby they used to value it more than western civilizations, for instance committing Harakiri in some specific cases of dishonors, it applies here on deep manner, we can testify his painful life carrying a heavy burden, nonetheless the director settled another outcome as the occidental title suggest.
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First watch: 2024 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 8.
