Oxen Split Torturing
1976
80 minutes
Overview
Two short stories set in Edo during the Shogun era. The first, during a time when Christians are persecuted vehemently, Iori falls in love with a young Christian girl. When she and her family are captured during a raid, his sadistic master takes her as his personal slave to torment Iori. The second follows Sutezo who, forced to serve the barbarous master of a brothel in order to repay his debts, befriends a young girl. Together, they both escape and struggle to get by on scams and petty theft.
Top Cast
Yūsuke Kazato
Rena Uchimura
Akira Shioji
Masataka Iwao
Ryuichi Nagashima
Yûsuke Tsukasa
Tetsuo Fujisawa
Yasumori Hikita
Mineko Maruhira
Miki Masuda
Kyōnosuke Murai
Yoshiaki Yamashita
Satoru Nabe
Miho Manabe
Akemi Ogikubo
Takuzō Kawatani
Maki Tachibana
Takako Yagi
Emi Jo
Kuniomi Kitani
Ryuji Komine
Toshio Kitagawa
Eizō Kitamura
Mitsue Wakabayashi
Takashi Noguchi
Shunji Sasaki
Masaharu Arikawa
Yukio Miyagi
Reiichi Hatanaka
Toshio Tomogane
Narrator