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The film is a semi-[[Biopic]] about the life of [[wikipedia:Sada Abe|Sada Abe]], who infamously strangled her lover before cutting off his genitals and carrying them around in her handbag, thus becoming a cultural icon. Set in Tokyo in 1936, Sada is played by Eiko Matsuda. Sada is a former prostitute who gets employed as a maid in a hotel. She begins a torrid affair with the hotel's owner, Kichizo Ishida (Tatsuya Fuji). The two engage in various sex games, including slapping each other, Kichizo urinating inside her, and Kichizo having sex with an old woman who comes to play music for them in front of her. Alas, Sada grows jealous of Kichizo's ongoing sexual relations with his actual wife, [[Yandere|insisting that he love only her]]. Eventually, with his encouragement, she [[Erotic Asphyxiation|erotically aspyxiates him]] and cuts his genitals off so she can keep them inside her forever; with the film concluding with her painting "Sada Kichi the two of us forever," in blood on his chest.

 

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* [[All Women Are Lustful]]: So lustful, that they will strangle their lovers and cut their dicks off so they can keep them inside them forever.

* [[Based on a True Story]]

* [[Erotic Asphyxiation]]

* [[Rape as Drama]]: Sada forces Kichizo to rape the elder housemaid.

* [[That Didn't Happen]]: Sada sees Kichizo having sex with another girl. She is shocked and the next shot shows her sticking a knife inside the girl's head, whereupon the bleeding girl screams in agony. Then it turns out she just fantasized about it.

* [[Yandere]]: Sada.

 

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