Woman In A Box — Japanese Movie !!link!!

Woman in a Box is not a film to be enjoyed; it is a film to be endured. For modern viewers, its content—prolonged sexual assault, psychological torture, and misogynistic imagery—is deeply challenging and may be unwatchable for many. However, within the context of 1980s Japanese pink cinema and as a work of an auteur like Masaru Konuma, it stands as a bleak, uncompromising art film.

Also directed by Masaru Konuma, the sequel is tonally distinct and significantly more "melodramatic". Woman In A Box Japanese Movie

Film scholars argue that Kazuo (in the 1985 film) is a metaphor for the Japanese "Salaryman." He works a degrading job (faking news photos), has a failing marriage, and finds his only agency in building a literal box for a woman. The film suggests that patriarchy is a lonely, suffocating box for men as well. Woman in a Box is not a film