Rope Sisters: Strange Fruit

Feb 17, 1984

1h 10m

★ 4.4

Overview

Muraki is a failure in his job as a salesman and has to deal with his wife's disappointment and criticism at home. One day, after sleeping in a park, he happens upon two women who look like they've been victims of a sexual assault. He helps them but as night comes an increasingly twisted mindgame unfolds between the involved parties and it is no longer certain who's the victim and who's the perpetrator.

Genres

Thriller

Horror

Production Companies

Nikkatsu Corporation

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Cast

Muraki

Toshiyuki Kitami

Hiromi

Makoto Yoshino

Sayaka

Hiromi Saotome

Uchida

Shoichi Itô

Yoko (Muraki's wife)

Naomi Hagio

Muraki's boss

Ushi Tôyama

Salesman-like man

Nobuo Koganei

Muraki's colleague

Tsutomu Abe

Muraki's colleague

Hideyuki Washizu

Muraki's colleague

Akihiro Yokota

Detective A

Goro Kataoka

Detective B

Kensuke Tamai

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