Contains: Violence, Adult Themes & Nudity
MOVIE INFO
Title: Love and Crime
Original Title: Meiji, taisho, showa ryoki onna hanzaishi
Country: Japan
Year: 1969
Genre: Drama, Crime, Erotica
Director: Teruo Ishii
Writers: Teruo Ishii and Masahiro Kakefuda
Cast: Aoi Mitsuko, Teruo Yoshida, Asao Koike, Yukie Kagawa, Tatsumi Hijikata...
Production: Toei
Runtime: 92 min.
Audio: Japanese
Subtitles: English and French embedded + English str
PLOT
Love and Crime was released in 1969, the year when Ishii directed no less than eight feature length movies. He made brief visits to Nikkatsu studios in form of the Rising Dragon series (which concluded in 1970 with the Meiko Kaji starring Blind Woman’s Curse) but all of his Toei films fell strictly under the exploitation banner.
Love and Crime follows the structure of Tokugawa onna keibatsu-shi (The Joy of Torture) (1968) by telling several short stories of love, passion and violence, all narrated by Ishii veteran Teruo Yoshida (Inferno of Torture, Yakuza’s Law).
The first story is a dark horror tale set in the early 1960’s. It follows a married woman (Aoi Mitsuko) who hooks up with a young man (Takashi Fujiki) and together they go for a killing spree. In the second episode Ishii re-imagines the famous, often adapted Abe Sada story, later made familiar to international audiences by Nagisa Oshima in Ai no corrida (Real of the Senses) (1976). After the Abe Sada story comes a very brief two part episode that runs only a few minutes. What follows however is the the longest running seqment in the film. Shot in black & white the fourth episode is a war time set story of a serial killer (Asao Koike). The last story runs about 12 minutes and is maybe the most disturbing of the bunch, thanks to the main character’s husband, a seriously sick / deformed man.
TECHNICAL INFO
General: love.and.crime.1969.teruo.ishii.dvdrip.x264.ac3.2ch.mkv
Format: Matroska at 1 695 Kbps
Length: 1.09 GiB for 1h 32mn 19s 367ms
Video #0: AVC at 1 305 Kbps
Aspect: 712 x 372 (2.320) at 23.976 fps
Audio #0: AC-3 at 384 Kbps
Infos: 2 channels, 48.0 KHz
Language: ja
Text #0: VobSub
Language: en
Text #1: VobSub
Language: fr
LINKS
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0142652/
Full plot/review: http://www.grindhousedatabase.com/index.php/Love_and_Crime
