• Director(s)

    Shinji Somai

  • Production Year

    1987

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    119m

  • Cast

    Keiji Mutô, Michiru Akiyoshi, Narumi Yasuda

Film

Luminous Woman

sexual threat, strong bloody violence, sex, sexualised nudity, drug misuse

LUMINOUS WOMAN is an Japanese drama from 1987, in which a mountain man travels to Tokyo where he falls in love with a faded opera singer and begins to work as a nightclub wrestler..…

LUMINOUS WOMAN is an Japanese drama from 1987, in which a mountain man travels to Tokyo where he falls in love with a faded opera singer and begins to work as a nightclub wrestler..

violence
A man stabs another in the shoulder with a hatchet. A man bites the ear of another off during a wrestling match, spitting part of it out; we do not see this in detail. There is wrestling violence, including holds, shoves, choking, and punches. There are headbutts and undetailed eye gouging. A man is pinned down and pummelled in the face by another. A man is drowned by having his head held underwater.
sex
There is strong sex with female buttock and breast nudity.
drugs
It is implied that a couple having sex may have taken heroin, through sight of a syringe and white powder in a bag.
sexual violence and sexual threat
A man grabs a woman and pulls her swimsuit down to reveal her breasts; she initially struggles and then consents to having sex with him. A man grabs a woman by the shoulders, pushes her against a wall and grasps her face; she escapes the encounter. In scenes with a comic tone, a man asks a woman on the street to be his wife and then chases her, trying to grab her and clasp her to him before she escapes.
injury detail
Characters are bloody in the aftermath of wrestling clashes and stabbings. A man appears to cough up blood on a bus.
nudity
There is brief sexualised breast and buttock nudity; there is a fleeting partial glimpse of the heavily shadowed outline of a man's penis.
additional issues
A character tells another that she once overdosed on drugs and experienced mental health difficulties; it is implied this was an a suicide attempt. There is mild bad language ('piss') as well as milder terms such as 'damn'.

  • Director(s)

    Shinji Somai

  • Production Year

    1987

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    119m

  • Cast

    Keiji Mutô, Michiru Akiyoshi, Narumi Yasuda

sexual threat, strong bloody violence, sex, sexualised nudity, drug misuse
Classified Date:
21/11/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Third Window Films
violence
A man stabs another in the shoulder with a hatchet. A man bites the ear of another off during a wrestling match, spitting part of it out; we do not see this in detail. There is wrestling violence, including holds, shoves, choking, and punches. There are headbutts and undetailed eye gouging. A man is pinned down and pummelled in the face by another. A man is drowned by having his head held underwater.
sex
There is strong sex with female buttock and breast nudity.
drugs
It is implied that a couple having sex may have taken heroin, through sight of a syringe and white powder in a bag.
sexual violence and sexual threat
A man grabs a woman and pulls her swimsuit down to reveal her breasts; she initially struggles and then consents to having sex with him. A man grabs a woman by the shoulders, pushes her against a wall and grasps her face; she escapes the encounter. In scenes with a comic tone, a man asks a woman on the street to be his wife and then chases her, trying to grab her and clasp her to him before she escapes.
injury detail
Characters are bloody in the aftermath of wrestling clashes and stabbings. A man appears to cough up blood on a bus.
nudity
There is brief sexualised breast and buttock nudity; there is a fleeting partial glimpse of the heavily shadowed outline of a man's penis.
additional issues
A character tells another that she once overdosed on drugs and experienced mental health difficulties; it is implied this was an a suicide attempt. There is mild bad language ('piss') as well as milder terms such as 'damn'.

  • Classified date

    21/11/2023

  • Language

    Japanese