
Midnight Cowboy(1969)
Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.



Saeda Kawaguchi
Shino Shinozaki

Akiko Koyama
Matsuko Koura, wife of Eisuke, teacher

Kei Satō
Eisuke Oyamada

Rokkō Toura
Genji Hyuga

Hideo Kanze
Inagaki, husband of the raped woman

Narumi Kayashima
Jinbo, teacher

Teruko Kishi
Shino's grandmother

Hōsei Komatsu
Shino's father
Hideko Kawaguchi
Matsuko's mother
Ryoko Takahara
Raped woman
Violence at Noon is a drama film released in 1966 exploring themes of rape, based on novel or book, self-loathing. Directed by Nagisa Ōshima, it stars Saeda Kawaguchi, Akiko Koyama, Kei Satō. Two young women must come to terms with the fact that a man they're deeply linked to is a murdering rapist.
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