Based on true story of serial killer Akira Nishiguchi.
Was the last live action film shot entirely in the VistaVision format until the release of O Brutalista (2024) in 2024.
Voted one of the best films of all time by Bong Joon-Ho in the Sight & Sound Poll
This film is part of the Criterion Collection, spine #384.
This marked Shohei Imamura's return to fiction films in approximately a decade after spending the early 1970s directing documentaries.