高桥一家三口住在一间简陋的小房子内。男主人吏一（西村晃饰）在东北大学图书馆工作，与女事务员义子维持了五年的不伦之恋；高桥家的生活危机重重，死气沉沉。某日吏一出差外埠，强盗平冈（露口茂饰）趁夜溜入房中，殴打并奸污了吏一的妻子贞子。次日清晨，倍感受辱的贞子意欲自杀，却割舍不掉对孩子的爱而最终放弃。数日后平冈再次前来，贞子突然发现自己怀有身孕。为了摆脱平冈的纠缠，她决定杀掉这个冤孽之人本片荣获当年日本十佳电影第四名，并在《电影旬报》百部作品中位列第七名。Noothercountry’scinemacomesasnearlyaudaciousandperceptiveasJapan’swithregardtoforegroundthebluntforceofanimalisticlibido,beforeNagisashima’snotorioussuccsdescandaleINTHEREALMOFTHESENSES(1976),Imamura’s6thfeature,INTENTIONSOFMURDER,isanotherunbridledmonstrosity,whereinsexisportrayedinitsbasest,rawestimpulse.SadakoTakahashi(Harukawa),acornfed,low-classhousewife,isnotone’susualprotagonist,aput-upon,passive,primitivewoman,evenhersensualityisafarcryfromthosecomely,coy,orglamorousfigureswhoconformstoo