This story starts not at the beginning and the genre seems like a pink eiga and then something like a noir, and there are many close-ups and fast cutting. Some close-ups are really difficult for us especially in the graphic murder scenes. The film has a terrible and seemingly long rape and murder scene before and during the opening credits. There is one evening five young women have drinks and fun as they watch a blue movie. This is interrupted when a young delivery boy is drawn into the party. There is suicide and several sex killings. It is not all in the right order and so fast that we have difficulty just working out what is going on, not only with the harsh black&white and inky shadows but those innumerable close-ups. There is also some surrealist like solarised flashbacks that give us more like a nightmare intensity. If all this is not enough one of the women tells the police that the boy's death was not so terrible because he enjoyed the sex, bit like when some rapist tell that the girls liked it. This film gets a lot in 90 minutes!
Review of Minagoroshi no reika
