1971 film directed by Masao Adachi, Kōji Wakamatsu

A shiftless resident in a boarding house spends his days crawling in the attic and spying on the renters below. One day he spies an elegant lady enter a room where a clown awaited her and watched as he pleasured her. But she spotted him watching and it aroused her more. Thus begins a story of two people who find they share similar desires and deadly passions.

A decadent count in 1920′s Japan becomes obsessed with the life and works of the Marquis de Sade. He creates a theatre to show plays adapted from the notorious writer’s novels and recruits thieves, prostitutes and low lives to act out his fantasies on stage for the delectation of his rich, jaded friends. In search of new sensations the nobleman orders one of the actors, on pain of death, to make love to the nobleman’s wife while he watches. Unfortunately, this incursion of real life into his fantasy world will have dire consequences for the count and his divinely decadent coterie.

积极投身于左翼运动的法律系学生贤一郎，眼看学生运动即将失败开始动摇，转而准备起司法考试，同时也开始亲近他原本一直非常厌恶和躲避着的资本家叔叔以及他美丽的女儿。当叔叔决定将女儿嫁给贤一郎时，他却意外得知自己底层社会出身的小女朋友已经怀孕并因孕期太长无法堕胎。为了挤进上流社会，贤一郎决定将他的女朋友杀掉......