Japans legendaryKing of CultTeruo Ishii (Horrors of Malformed Men, Shoguns Joy of Torture) delivers four dramatized tales of real-life crimes of passion involving women across the ages in this grotesque anthology featuring the stories of theHotel Nihonkaku Murders, the notoriouspoison wifeand last woman in Japan to be executed by beheading, Oden Takahashi, the brutal serial killer Yoshio Kodaira and the story of Sada Abe, the infamous castratice featured in Nagisa Oshimas In the Realm of the Senses. 88 Films is proud to present this unflinching look at female pathology drawn from Japans criminal casebooks for the very first time outside Japan.