A woman called Sada Abe (1975)

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the young and beautiful sada abe (junko miyashita), the daughter of a rich merchant, is banished from her home for losing her virginity after being raped by a college student. sada wanders the city where she becomes a geisha and eventually meets kichizo (hideaki ezumi), a posh restaurateur who falls under the spell of her carnal charms. together they embark upon a week-long session of lovemaking that is filled with ribald sex and dangerous obsessions. their descent into complete absorption into each other's desires culminates in a shocking crime of passion which captures the city's headlines.
based on a real event from 1936, a woman called sada abe (jitsuroku: abe sada, literally "the true story of abe sada") is a compelling adult drama from japan's famed nikkatsu studios and director noboru tanaka (walker in the attic, 1976). made a year before director nagisa oshima's better-known but sexually explicit international version of the same story, "in the realm of the senses" (ai no corrida, 1976), a woman called sada abe follows the story beyond its traditional climax and shows the aftermath of sada's obsession.