A Wicked Woman

Dokufu Takahashi Oden

Japan

1958

74 Min

Black and White

Japanese

Currently 3.0/5 Stars.
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SCR Katsuyoshi Nakatsu, Shin Nakazawa, Kensuke Sawa

CAST Katsuko Wakasugi, Juzaburo Akechi, Tetsurô Tanba, Akria Nakamura, Eeng Funabashi, Asao Matsumoto

In 1870’s Tokyo, Den steals to support the daughter of her first marriage and her consumptive second husband. She falls in love with a young policeman, but is coerced into becoming the mistress of and procurer for a vice boss. After the deaths of her second husband and daughter, Den moves to Yokohama. There she runs a casino for the vice boss. Her remorseful first husband and the disgraced policeman follow her. Den kills her former husband and the vice boss, but when she tries to escape with the casino takings, she’s arrested and returned to Tokyo to stand trial. —IMDb

Director

Nobuo Nakagawa

Nobuo Nakagawa (18 April 1905 — June 17, 1984) was a Japanese film director, most famous for the stylized, folk tale-influenced horror films he made in the 1950s and 1960s. Nakagawa began his film career as an apprentice to Masahiro Makino in 1934 and made his directorial debut with Itahachi Jima (1938). To Western audiences, his most famous film is Jigoku (1960), which he also co-wrote. The film was released on DVD by the Criterion Collection in 2006. His last film was 1982’s Kaiidan: Ikiteiru Koheiji. —Wikipedia