is a 1990 Japanese film directed by

Kōhei Oguri is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Career Born in Gunma, Oguri first became a freelance assistant director after graduating from Waseda University. He made his directorial debut in 1981 with '' Muddy River'', which earned him both a J ...

and based on the novel by

Toshio Shimao was a Japanese novelist. He has been called a "writer's writer", which is used as both a compliment and criticism. Biography Shimao was born in Yokohama, but his family moved to Kobe when he was eight. His mother died when he was seventeen and s ...

. It tells the story of a writer with a wandering eye and his jealous wife. The film was selected as the Japanese entry for the

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at the

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, but was not accepted as a nominee.

Cast

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as Miho (ミホ) *

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as Toshio (トシオ) * Midori Kiuchi as Kuniko (邦子) * Takenori Matsumura as Shin'ichi (伸一) * Yuri Chikamori as Maya (マヤ) * Akira Yamanouchi as Masagaro a.k.a. Oji (おじ) * Miyoko Nakamura as Riki a.k.a. Oba (おば)

Production

The film was partly shot on location in Kakeromajima,

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.Gabriel, "Notes to Pages 9-11," p
237
"Several full-scale shinyo models were constructed for the 1989 movie Shi no toge, shot partly on location in Kakeromajima."

Awards

''The Sting of Death'' won the

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and the Grand Prize of the Jury at the

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where it was also nominated for the

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. In that year it also won the

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and the Nikkan Sports Film Award. In 1991 the film won the Award of the Japanese Academy, the Blue Ribbon Award, the

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and the

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References

* Gabriel, Philip. ''Mad Wives and Island Dreams: Shimao Toshio and the Margins of Japanese Literature''.

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, 1999. , 9780824820893.

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