Cruel Female Love Suicide

残酷おんな情死
Cruel Female Love Suicide
Directed by Shōgorō Nishimura
Produced by Eiichi Imato
Written by Gan Yamazaki
Starring Annu Mari
Sanae Ohori
Music by Riichiro Manabe
Cinematography Syohei Ando
Edited by Masanori Tsujii
Distributed by Nikkatsu
Release dates
  • 18 April 1970
Running time
 86 minutes
Country Japan
Language Japanese

Cruel Female Love Suicide (残酷おんな情死 Zankoku onna jōshi) is an April 1970 Japanese film directed by Shōgorō Nishimura and starring Annu Mari and Sanae Ōhori. The major Japanese film studio Nikkatsu began to experiment with erotic-themed movies beginning in the late 1960's in an attempt to save the company from insolvency. Cruel Female Love Suicide continued this trend which eventually resulted in the inauguration of Nikkatsu's Roman porno series of films in November 1971 with Apartment Wife: Affair In the Afternoon, also directed by Shōgorō Nishimura.[1]

Plot

Chie (Sanae Ōhori), newly arrived in Tokyo, saves her friend from school, Mari (played by the half-Indian actress Annu Mari), from a suicide attempt. The two girls become close, eventually leading to a lesbian relationship. Their affair drifts into sadism and involvement with a bizarre sex cult, resulting in the deaths of the two lovers.[1][2][3]

Cast

Release

The film was released theatrically in Japan on April 18, 1970[3] by the Nikkatsu studio which also produced a VHS tape version in January 1990.[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Sharp, Jasper (2008). Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema. Guildford: FAB Press. p. 126. ISBN 978-1-903254-54-7.
  2. ↑ Weisser, Thomas; Yuko Mihara Weisser (1998). Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films. Miami: Vital Books : Asian Cult Cinema Publications. pp. 97–98. ISBN 1-889288-52-7.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 残酷おんな情死 (in Japanese). MovieWalker. Retrieved 2015-03-19.
  4. ↑ "残酷おんな情死 [VHS]" (in Japanese). amazon.co.jp. Retrieved 2015-03-19.

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