JAPAN · 1997
Shitsurakuen
Yoshimitsu Morita
Synopsis
Kuki is a veteran newspaper reporter who has been shuffled off to a book-development branch and finds escape in an illicit relationship with Rinko. Together they find the passion no longer present in their marriages.
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DVD: region 2 NTSC (Japan) no subtitles; and poor quality region 3 NTSC (Hong Kong) poor English subtitles
DVD: region 2 NTSC (Japan) no subtitles
Insurance adjuster Keibu Wakatsuki receives an anonymous phone call from a woman who wants to know if his Showa Corporation will pay out on a policy if the holder suicides. Soon he’s sent to the home of Shigenori Komoda, a thumbless man whose missing digit the adjuster’s company thinks may not be accidental. There, Wakatsuki finds the body of Komoda’s young stepson dangling from a rope tied to a ceiling beam. …
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infidelity · workplace dissatisfaction · marital discord · forbidden romance · midlife crisis
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