Hakuchû no tôrima (1966)

Cast

Credited cast:
	Hideo Kanze	...	Inagaki, husband of the raped woman
	Hideko Kawaguchi	...	Matsuko's mother
	Saeda Kawaguchi	...	Shino Shinozaki
	Narumi Kayashima	...	Jinbo, teacher
	Teruko Kishi	...	Shino's grandmother
	Hôsei Komatsu	...	Shino's father
	Akiko Koyama	...	Matsuko Koura, wife of Eisuke, teacher
	Kei Satô	...	Eisuke Oyamada
	Ryoko Takahara	...	Raped woman
	Taiji Tonoyama	...	School director
	Rokko Toura	...	Genji Hyuga
	Fumio Watanabe	...	Inspector Haraguchi
	Sen Yano	...	Mayor

Storyline

Hakuchu no Torima" is the portrayal of a violent rapist as seen through the recollections of his wife and one of his victims. As the film starts, Eisuke (Kei Sato) encounters Shino (Saeda Kawaguchi), who works as a maid in a house. She is a former coworker from a failed collective farm, whose life he once saved -- only to rape her. Soon, Eisuke's criminal pattern of rapes and murders emerges as he goes on assaulting women (Shino being the witness of one of them, as Eisuke tries to violate her employer). When cooperating with the police on making a description of the rapist, Shino withholds her crucial knowledge of his identity. She prefers writing letters to Eisuke's dutiful wife, Matsuko, a schoolteacher (Akiko Koyama -- Mrs Oshima), in order to expose his true nature and perhaps induce her into turning Eisuke over to the police. Written by miclea daniel  

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