The Woman with Red Hair

The Woman with Red Hair

1979 · 73 min · ★ 5.8 · Drama

Junko Miyashita plays a mysterious hitchhiker picked up by a brute of a construction worker named Kenzo who takes her back to his run-down and cramped apartment in a not so good part of town. Claiming that she is running away from an abusive husband, she shacks up with him. In a futile attempt to escape the bleak working class surroundings, the pair engage in an obsessive erotic relationship.

Directed by Tatsumi Kumashiro · Written by Haruhiko Arai

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