Akuma No Heya (1982)

Run Time - 89 min.  |   Countries - United States  |   MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Robert Firsching

Formerly prolific Nikkatsu filmmaker Chusei Sone's first pinku eiga film since the success of Tenshi No Harawata Akai Kyoshitsu in 1980, this erotic thriller was penned by famed mystery writer Saho Sasazawa, whose work also inspired the less interesting Akuma No Hitojichi. The complex plot line deals with Hiroyuki (Masami Horiuchi), the scion of a hotel magnate, whose young wife Yoshiko (Reiko Nakamura) is kidnapped by Hiroyuki's father's secret love-child (Johnny Ohkura), a maniac with an axe to grind. Unfortunately, Yoshiko's kidnapper -- despite his sexual assaults on her -- is far more appealing than the ruthless family from which she was abducted, and she begins to fall in love with him even as Hiroyuki is finally deciding to pay the ransom to free her. Sordid and unpleasant, yet strangely compelling, the films was another big hit for Sone and the studio.