Four housewives, four dead husbands, one very creative garbage disposal system.
When pregnant lunchbox factory worker Yayoi has finally taken all the abuse she can handle, she strangles her brutish husband and disposes of the body parts, piece by piece. She's soon joined by three down on their luck housewives who murder their own husbands and find various ways to hide the evidence.
Acting
Mieko Harada's ice-cold pragmatism anchors the collective madness
Direction
Hirayama finds bleak poetry in factory fluorescent lighting
Director
Hideyuki Hirayama
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on the first novel by Natsuo Kirino, who worked in a factory herself and wrote during her commute.
The 'bento factory' setting critiques Japan's 1990s economic stagnation and the invisible labor of women trapped in part-time 'flexible' work.
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