女人春叫的声音

咖啡店新来的女招待有里（桂たまき 饰）是一个泼辣张扬的女孩，而在同一家店的糕点师阿健（林ゆたか 饰）则显得内向木讷。这两个性格迥异的人走在一起，雨夜归家途中，他们搭载了一名举止怪异的女子（山科ゆり 饰）。两人将女子赶下车，慌乱中将其误杀。杀人虽令他们恐慌，却同时让他们品尝到前所未有的刺激和快感。为了寻求类似的快感，有里和阿健接连绑架并杀害了多名女性，手段残忍，无所不用其极。而在这一过程中，阿健似乎更加痴迷于此……

At the age of eight, the now 25-year-old director caused an incident, which has remained traumatic as he became older. Although it seemed just a trivial matter, something one might expect from children, he obstinately questions his family, friends and teachers about what happened at that time. Worrying over the thoughts of dishonor he saw in his family’s eyes then, he has fostered a self-hatred over the years. As if reconstructing the past with his camera, he attempts to free himself of this self-hatred, shedding tears for himself at times and opening his own wounds, then healing them. What he has discovered through filmmaking was his once sealed “self.” The question now is, where to go from here?

本片由日本松竹电影公司于1979年拍摄，原著取自埃勒里·奎因的小说《灾难之城/凶镇》，侦探的名字也从埃勒里·奎因更名为罗伯特。不过情节依然忠实于原著，并获得了当年日本学院奖和电影旬报奖（都是女配角奖，获奖者为小川真由美），该片首映时，丹奈（奎因两兄弟之一）还专程赶到日本出席仪式

女儿艾玛（德博拉?温格 Debra Winger 饰）是妈妈奥罗拉（雪莉?麦克雷恩 Shirley MacLaine 饰）的心肝宝贝，自小开始，奥罗拉就帮艾玛安排好一切，艾玛的言谈举止、修饰打扮、学习、玩耍、交朋友等等都必须经过奥罗拉同意。在丈夫早逝后，奥罗拉操持起家里的一切，对艾玛更加“专制”。艾玛虽然表明很温柔、软弱，但是内心却十分倔强。两母女也因此多次吵架。奥罗拉一直没再接受其他男人的追求，艾玛也在和母亲相依相偎、磕磕绊绊中长大。长大后的艾玛开始极力摆脱母亲的“专制”：她不顾母亲的反对，嫁给了一个工作不稳定的研究生……她花了三十年去摆脱母亲的“专制”，到头来却发现自己对母亲的始终不忘的依依亲情。