![Machiko Kyō](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w92/rWpsDPm87CQ3ekRuvDAqHBLf18a.jpg)
The picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and eroticism, picturing a world at once sordid and poetic, with two central themes which intermingle to compound an admirable panel of a critical period in Japanese history: the great famine in the mid 19th Century.
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