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The Woman with Red Hair

1979 · 73 min Drama
5.9 / 10 · TMDB

Junko Miyashita plays a mysterious hitchhiker picked up by a brute of a construction worker named Kenzo who takes her back to his run-down and cramped apartment in a not so good part of town. Claiming that she is running away from an abusive husband, she shacks up with him. In a futile attempt to escape the bleak working class surroundings, the pair engage in an obsessive erotic relationship.

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📋 Film Details

Original Title 赫い髪の女
Year 1979
Country Japan
Genre Drama
Director Tatsumi Kumashiro
Runtime 73 min.
Rating TMDB: 5.9/10 (16 votes)

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The film constructs a suffocating atmosphere of social claustrophobia, relying on minimalist staging and the almost physically palpable tightness of the frame. Here, eroticism becomes not a diversion, but a form of silent despair and an attempt to break through daily hopelessness.

What lingers after viewing is a heavy, raw melancholy from this tactile immersion into the world of two lost souls, for whom passion is a final way to feel alive. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Tatsumi Kumashiro

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Watch alone late at night, attuned to its slow, hypnotic rhythm. Dim lighting will enhance the intimate and bleak mood.

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