An unusual blending of elements comes together in this crime story drawn from Japanese history. During the early Meiji period a number of “Dokufu” (Poison Women) committed a significant number of murders. These crimes were most often committed by wives on their husbands in order to be together with their lovers. At that time women were executed in the same manner as men, to wit: by being decapitated. This is the story of the most notorious of all, Takahashi Oden who, in 1879, was the last woman executed by decapitation in Japan.
Cast
Terumi Azuma
Oden Takahashi
Yoshinobu Hirose
Matsusuke
Yukiko Tachibana
Ama Suzutsuki
Takuzō Kawatani
Unknown
Akira Shioji
Yoshizo
Tetsuo Fujisawa
Unknown
Seizō Fukumoto
Unknown
Hiroshi Hatano
Unknown
Masao Hirakawa
Unknown
Gorō Ibuki
Unknown
Masataka Iwao
Unknown
Atsushi Kitamura
Unknown
Kentaro Maki
Unknown
Ai Mizuki
Unknown
Haruko Nishida
Unknown
Ryō Nishida
Unknown
Jun Ogawa
Unknown
Shunji Sasaki
(as Tsuiyuki Sasaki)
Masaru Shiga
Unknown
Takaya Shimoyama
Unknown
Jiro Shirai
Unknown
Rena Uchimura
Unknown
Kunijirō Yanagi
Unknown
