Intentions of Murder

Synopsis

While her sickly, adulterous husband is away in Sendai, a common-law housewife in rural Japan is brutally assaulted by a burglar who subsequently falls into an obsessive infatuation with her, leading her through suicide attempts to an extraordinary animalistic awakening where she manipulates her attacker during a freezing snowstorm on an express train to survive and conquer her oppressors. Shohei Imamura's ferocious masterpiece starring Kyoko Kishida.