Guilty of Romance (2011) Online
A grisly murder occurs in Maruyama-cho, Shibuya, Tokyo - a love hotel district - a woman was found dead in a derelict apartment. Kazuko (Miki Mizuno) is a police officer called to investigate on this case, she will discover the story of two women who, despite appearing respectable on the outside have all manner of darkness hidden away.
Credited cast: | |||
Miki Mizuno | - | Kazuko Yoshida | |
Makoto Togashi | - | Mitsuko Ozawa | |
Megumi Kagurazaka | - | Izumi Kikuchi | |
Kazuya Kojima | - | Shoji | |
Satoshi Nikaido | - | Masao Yoshida (as Satoshi Nikaidô) | |
Ryûju Kobayashi | - | Kaoru | |
Shingo Gotsuji | - | Kazuo Kimura | |
Motoki Fukami | - | Maki Martini | |
Chika Uchida | - | Eri Doi | |
Marie Machida | - | Mari (as Marî Machida) | |
Ryô Iwamatsu | - | Supermarket manager | |
Hisako Ôkata | - | Shizu Ozawa | |
Kanji Tsuda | - | Yukio Kikuchi | |
Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
Cynthia Cheston | - | Prostitute | |
Mae Otsuka | - | (as Mae Ohtsuka) |
The story is loosely based on the 1997 murder of Yasuko Watanabe, who was a senior economic researcher at TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company), but was also a prostitute at night in the Shibuya district of Tokyo.
The poem Mitsuko quotes is "On My Way Home" by Ryuichi Tamura.
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