A Story from Echigo
A sake factory worker on holiday returns to his home town, where he rapes the wife of one of his co-workers in the forest. The other man returns home to find his wife changed and suspects that she has been unfaithful.
A sake factory worker on holiday returns to his home town, where he rapes the wife of one of his co-workers in the forest. The other man returns home to find his wife changed and suspects that she has been unfaithful.
Yoshiko Sakuma
Oshin
Shoichi Ozawa
Rentaro Mikuni
Gonsuke Sabu
Eijirō Tōno
Haruo Tanaka
Taiji Tonoyama
Tatsuo Matsumura
Sadako Sawamura
Nijiko Kiyokawa
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