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a top-rating of four out of four stars. Noting Tanaka's use of "dark images, obsessive nihilistic philosophy, and gravely somber atmosphere", they write, "Like all of the movies from Tanaka's Mad Love period, it's filmed in matter-of-fact, non-flinching style, creating a dangerous ambivalence towards
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Itō meets Tae in a brothel when he stays on past closing time, and intrigues Tae by telling a gruesome story of mutilating his wife when she left him, which he initially pretends to be a personal one. They begin their relationship, with Tae increasingly curious as to the tortures that he inflicted on
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The film begins by introducing Tae, showing her as stuporous and unresponsive to Ito's tortures, with Ito being helped in his tortures of Tae by an elderly woman. Then, through a series of flashbacks, we see Ito submitting his wife to various tortures, including being submerged in an icy lake and
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