Shuri Taniguchi

A press photographer returns to Japan from the war in Vietnam after losing his friend and fellow photographer on the battlefield.

Long ago, a concubine was bound to marry into a high-ranking samurai family when the time came, so she took her daughter with her. However, the man she was marrying never returned home. The woman then has an affair with her servant, who committed suicide out of guilt. Blaming the husband, the woman attached him, and then beheaded herself. In the present, the woman's now adult daughter wrestles her own desires...

Early pink film directed by Kinya Ogawa.

Pinku from 1965.