Violence at Noon (1966)
Original title: 白昼の通り魔
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Hakuchu no Torima is the portrayal of a violent rapist as seen through the recollections of his wife and one of his victims. As the film starts, Eisuke (Kei Sato) encounters Shino (Saeda Kawaguchi), who works as a maid in a house. She is a former coworker from a failed collective farm, whose life he once saved -- only to rape her. Soon, Eisuke's criminal pattern of rapes and murders emerges as he goes on assaulting women (Shino being the witness of one of them, as Eisuke tries to violate her employer). When cooperating with the police on making a description of the rapist, Shino withholds her crucial knowledge of his identity. She prefers writing letters to Eisuke's dutiful wife, Matsuko, a schoolteacher (Akiko Koyama -- Mrs Oshima), in order to expose his true nature and perhaps induce her into turning Eisuke over to the police.
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Saeda KawaguchiShino Shinozaki
Akiko KoyamaMatsuko Koura, wife of Eisuke, teacher
Kei SatōEisuke Oyamada
Rokkō TouraGenji Hyuga
Hideo KanzeInagaki, husband of the raped womanHideko KawaguchiMatsuko's mother
Narumi KayashimaJinbo, teacher
Teruko KishiShino's grandmother
Hōsei KomatsuShino's fatherRyoko TakaharaRaped woman
Taiji TonoyamaSchool director
Fumio WatanabeInspector HaraguchiMovie DNA
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What is Violence at Noon about?
Hakuchu no Torima is the portrayal of a violent rapist as seen through the recollections of his wife and one of his victims. As the film starts, Eisuke (Kei Sato) encounters Shino (Saeda Kawaguchi), who works as a maid in a house. She is a former coworker from a failed collective farm, whose life he once saved -- only to rape her. Soon, Eisuke's criminal pattern of rapes and murders emerges as he goes on assaulting women (Shino being the witness of one of them, as Eisuke tries to violate her employer). When cooperating with the police on making a description of the rapist, Shino withholds her crucial knowledge of his identity. She prefers writing letters to Eisuke's dutiful wife, Matsuko, a schoolteacher (Akiko Koyama -- Mrs Oshima), in order to expose his true nature and perhaps induce her into turning Eisuke over to the police.
How long is Violence at Noon?
Violence at Noon has a runtime of 99 minutes.
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