• Director(s)

    Seijun Suzuki

  • Production Year

    1977

  • Genre(s)

    Drama, Sport

  • Approx. running minutes

    93m

  • Cast

    Yoko Shiraki, Yoshio Harada, Masumi Okada

Film

A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness

strong sex, nudity, sexualised violence

A TALE OF SORROW AND SADNESS is a Japanese sports-thriller, from 1977, in which a woman succeeds as a professional golfer but her wealth and fame come with unforeseen complications.…

A TALE OF SORROW AND SADNESS is a Japanese sports-thriller, from 1977, in which a woman succeeds as a professional golfer but her wealth and fame come with unforeseen complications.

violence
Characters are bludgeoned and beaten with a golf club, but visual detail is discreet. Other moments of violence include fist fighting, strangling and a shooting. There is sight of bloody wounds in the aftermath of violence.
sex
Brief sex scenes feature nudity. A person looks at a pornographic magazine but the visual detail is limited; there are multiple references to prostitution. A person psychologically subjugates another seeking to humiliate her.
sexual violence and sexual threat
In one distressing scene a woman is forcibly stripped of her clothing by a group of other women but the visual detail is limited. In another sequence a man gropes the a woman's clothed breasts in what seems to be the start of an intimate encounter but then puts her in a tight chokehold.
nudity
There are several brief shots of impressionistic nudity.
additional issues
A person is hit by a car and there is a fire in a building. People smoke tobacco and drink alcohol, and there are several party scenes. There is also mild bad language ('bastard', 'ass'); other milder terms include 'hell' and 'damn'. The story features a stalker and several scenes have an unsettling tone; sustained scenes of psychological threat build dramatic tension.

  • Director(s)

    Seijun Suzuki

  • Production Year

    1977

  • Genre(s)

    Drama, Sport

  • Approx. running minutes

    93m

  • Cast

    Yoko Shiraki, Yoshio Harada, Masumi Okada

strong sex, nudity, sexualised violence
Classified Date:
31/01/2025
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Radiance Films
violence
Characters are bludgeoned and beaten with a golf club, but visual detail is discreet. Other moments of violence include fist fighting, strangling and a shooting. There is sight of bloody wounds in the aftermath of violence.
sex
Brief sex scenes feature nudity. A person looks at a pornographic magazine but the visual detail is limited; there are multiple references to prostitution. A person psychologically subjugates another seeking to humiliate her.
sexual violence and sexual threat
In one distressing scene a woman is forcibly stripped of her clothing by a group of other women but the visual detail is limited. In another sequence a man gropes the a woman's clothed breasts in what seems to be the start of an intimate encounter but then puts her in a tight chokehold.
nudity
There are several brief shots of impressionistic nudity.
additional issues
A person is hit by a car and there is a fire in a building. People smoke tobacco and drink alcohol, and there are several party scenes. There is also mild bad language ('bastard', 'ass'); other milder terms include 'hell' and 'damn'. The story features a stalker and several scenes have an unsettling tone; sustained scenes of psychological threat build dramatic tension.

  • Classified date

    31/01/2025

  • Language

    Japanese