A Woman Called Sada Abe
About A Woman Called Sada Abe
A true-life tale of a broken woman whose hedonistic tryst with a high-class restaurateur resulted in a horrific crime of passion that littered Tokyo headlines in 1936.
Noboru Tanaka's A Woman Called Sada Abe is a 1975 crime romance film. It runs 76 minutes and was released in February 1975.
Junko Miyashita stars as Sada Abe, Eimei Esumi as Kichizo Ishida, Nagatoshi Sakamoto as Osato, and Genshū Hanayagi as Geisha. Written by Akio Ido. The film began as real events.
Members will find pink film, castration, geisha, and murder in it. In the United States it streams on Film Movement Plus.
The Revenant, GoodFellas, and Amadeus make useful companions to A Woman Called Sada Abe.