A beautiful married woman was murdered by her husband, a famous Noh mask artist, because he suspected her relationship with her brother-in-law. The couple had a 5-year-old daughter. Fifteen years later, her daughter, now 20 years old, heard for the first time the details of the incident from her uncle who was the cause of her mother's death, but it was a story of a dark lust that could be called abnormal.
Naomi Tani
Yuki & Namiko
Hachiro Tsuruoka
Keiichiro
Shirō Shimomoto
Kitagawara Ryosuke
Mayumi Mikawa
Keiko
Mayuko Hino
Machiko
Kominato Taka
Young girl
A beautiful married woman was murdered by her husband, a famous Noh mask artist, because he suspected her relationship with her brother-in-law. The couple had a 5-year-old daughter. Fifteen years later, her daughter, now 20 years old, heard for the first time the details of the incident from her uncle who was the cause of her mother's death, but it was a story of a dark lust that could be called abnormal.
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