# Love Hunter (1972)

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**Original title**: *恋の狩人　ラブ・ハンター*
**Runtime**: 73 min
**Genres**: Drama
**Directed by**: Seiichirō Yamaguchi
**Written by**: Seiichirō Yamaguchi, Tatsumi Kumashiro
**Starring**: Hidemi Hara, Mari Tanaka, Ryûji Ôizumi, Kōju Ran, Sumiko Minami, Akira Takahashi

> *Wet thickets rustle... ...as winds sweep through dry dunes... A cryptogam blooming eerily in the quagmire of lust!!*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Kyōko meets Rear Window in a pink-slipped 1970s housewife flick. Jaded by a stalled marriage she throws a bacchanal that collapses fantasy into living room. A divorced neighbor and her own mother’s ghost carry the carnival.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, sexy, surreal

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