Akai Tôri-ame

赤い通り雨

An angry young man, who had been sentenced for rape, is freed from juvenile detention. He spots a lone woman who is taking a rest from driving and drags her into the woods to rape her. This experience destroys the woman’s marriage plans. Later she meets a sympathetic deliveryman and they become lovers. As she describes her past ordeal to him he begins to suspect that the assailant might be his younger brother. When the younger brother shows up the woman’s world is turned upside down again.

Screenplay

Machiko Nasu

Director

Kōyū Ohara

Status

Released

Release date

02/08/1980

Original language

Japanese