Haruka Nishimoto

Mizutani Kei, who starred in the V Cinema production A Weather Woman that also gained popularity overseas, gives a delightfully humorous performance as the battling protagonist who gives up a glamorous nightclub career to take up farming. Thirty-five-year-old bar worker Yukie (Mizutani) marries customer Jotaro (Hamada Manabu), the eldest son of a farming family. She revels in the humble joy of being a farmer's wife. Then one day, a man named Mishima (Yoshioka Mutsuo) who once deceived Yukie reappears, and seeks a physical relationship with her.

Saya had planned a scheme so that Sakiko, who works under Makoto, would witness her sexual affair with Makoto in the office. Makoto’s home is about to become a broken one when his wife Sachiko is told of her husband’s unfaithful doings. Saya, simmering with bottomless vengeance, exploits Hayakawa, Makoto’s daughter’s private tutor, to lure Sachiko into committing adultery... and in the end, nothing can hold down sexual desires!

Makoto Toda was an earnest man who had lived an ordinary life, working as an ordinary company employee. He had built himself an average, but happy home along with his wife and his daughter. Things change however, when a new female recruit named Saya arrives at Makoto’s division. The young woman does everything she can think of to get herself closer to Makoto, and it isn’t long before the two become sexually involved. The affair first seemed as though it would end as a quiet secret only the two would ever know... However, the secret escalates slowly until it spins out of control, and Makoto’s home heads toward destruction...

일본의 입찢어진 여자 괴담은 국내로 넘어와 빨간마스크라는 이름을 얻었고, 입에서 입으로 전해지면서 다양한 설정으로 변모하게 되었다. 소문이란 것이 그렇듯 사람의 입을 통하여 전달되기 때문에 전달자의 생각이 추가로 반영되는 경우도 있고, 개중에는 홍콩할매귀신과 빨간마스크를 믹스하여 그녀의 입은 원래 비행기 사고로 찢어지게 되었다는 황당한 소문까지 흘러나오게 되었다. 지금은 지역에 따라서, 좁게는 동네마다 각각 내용이 조금씩 다르게 전해지고 있으니 무엇이 원조인가는 사실상 잘 알 수가 없는데, 다만 어느곳이나 무섭고 흥미롭다는 점이 같으므로 굳이 진짜를 가려낼 필요는 없어 보인다. 무엇보다 애초 사람의 입에서 흘러나온 근거없는 괴담일 뿐이므로 다소 과장되었다 하더라도 단지 하나의 가십거리 정도로 여기면 그 뿐이다.