Painful Bliss: Final Twist

An awkward salaryman stumbles into a Tokyo night so bizarre it feels scripted. By midnight he’s trapped between a yakuza groupie’s advances and her unhinged boyfriend’s escalating demands. It ends exactly where you’d expect a 1977 VCR rental to end.

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Tatsumi Kumashiro directed Painful Bliss: Final Twist in 1977. See Tatsumi Kumashiro's full filmography, where to start with Tatsumi Kumashiro, or where to go after you've seen everything by Tatsumi Kumashiro.

Painful Bliss: Final Twist was released in 1977 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 73 minutes.