TEN WOMEN IN BLACK

Featuring a stunning cast of Daiei studio divas and striking B&W photography by Setsuo Kobayashi (BLIND BEAST), this is Kon Ichikawa’s merciless dissection of social relations and gender roles in affluent post-war Japan. A TV executive’s nine mistresses conspire with his wife to have him killed. When Miwako, one of the mistresses, tells him of the plot, he fakes his own death in front of them all. The women panic and deny they were ever serious about the murder. But when they find out the man is still alive, they put their original plan back into action.