The Woman with Red Hair

Seventies erotic icon Junko Miyashita plays a redheaded hitchhiker who enters the life of a depraved construction worker in this celebrated pink film.

DIRECTOR
Tatsumi Kumashiro
YEAR
1979
COUNTRY
Japan
RUNTIME
73 minutes
LANGUAGE
Japanese with English subtitles
FORMAT
35mm
ORIGINAL TITLE
Akai kami no onna

Seventies icon Junko Miyashita plays a redheaded hitchhiker who enters the life of a depraved construction worker in this dark, celebrated erotic drama. Dubbed “one of the very best Nikkatsu pink films” by the Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia, The Woman with Red Hair becomes a marathon session of obsessive desire and unsatisfied dreams, acted out in a down-and-out working-class milieu. One of the best works by a major director in the genre.

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