1962 Japanese movie
This was the pink film debut of Masayoshi Nogami, one of the most popular and prolific actors in the genre. Over the next 47 years, until his death in 2010, he would appear in hundreds of the films, and direct at least eighteen.
Yoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and postwar disillusion. The story of the fatal attraction between a spineless intellectual and a strong woman is conventional, but its enactment is radically new.
