Chijin no ai
Sa Poule
- Release Date
- TBD
- Running Time
- 89 min
- Genre
- Feature
- Color
- Monochrome
- Screening Format
- HDCAM
- Screen Size
- Standard (1:1.37)
[ Directed by ]
[ Cast ]
[ Staff ]
- HATTA Naoyuki ── Screenplay
- KIMURA Keigo ── Screenplay
- TANIZAKI Junichiro ── Original Story
[ Production Company ]
DAIEI
[ Distributor (Japan) ]
DAIEI
[ Story ]
Joji, is known as the perfect gentleman and the Saint and thought too fastidious to show interest in women.
But Joji has his secret and when he is freed from work goes home ... to Naomi and love. Naomi had been a barmaid, only 16 years old, when he had fallen in love with her at first sight.
Now, Naomi has become a curvacious beauty, but in her years with him, she has learned to use her wiles to gain her every wish.
The first faint discord in their happiness is touched off by Naomi's determination to buy an imported MG. But Joji puts his foot down on her latest unreasonable demand and in a huff, she leaves home. Half mad with fear that she has deserted him, Joji realizes that their positions have been reversed, and that he is no longer able to live without her. When Naomi returns after a night of revelry, he welcomes her back with open arms, contritely begs her to forgive him and promises to grant her every wish, including the MG. Now she openly flaunts her affairs, and her boyfriends range from students to boxers, but she assumes a bland air of innocence towards the trusting Joji.
When a colleague acquaints Joji of the real facts about Naomi, his head reels in a dizzy blur of confusion, doubt and anger.
He orders her out of his home, but, as the days pass, a loneliness beyond endurance eats at his heart, although he tells himself that what he has done is for the best. One day, Naomi returns for some clothes she has left behind, and like a cat playing with a mouse before killing it, she breaks down Joji's resistance by using every weapon at her command.
The bleak hopelessness of his lot darts through his mind as he succumbs to the joy of having Naomi back at any cost.
【Quoted from the database of Kadokawa Corporation】
【Quoted from Unijapan Film Quarterly 1960 3.3】
[ Contact (International) ]
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