Elegy of a Showa Woman: Bride Framed for Adultery, Punished Before Her Husband, and Raped into Submission — 1943 — Makoto Takeuchi

HBAD-353 — Elegy of a Showa Woman: Bride Framed for Adultery, Punished Before Her Husband, and Raped into Submission — 1943 — Makoto Takeuchi

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Makoto, a daughter from a respectable family, marries the son of a military man only to suffer domestic abuse from her brutally strict father-in-law. Her husband is too afraid to defy his father and pretends not to see it. Suspecting Makoto of having an affair with her husband's close friend, the father-in-law cruelly punishes her in front of her husband. The friend sympathizes with Makoto, and as her resentment toward her spineless husband grows, she begins to fall for the kinder man and becomes aroused in his embrace. Her husband secretly watches the two have sex and reports them to his father, who flies into a rage...