On entering her house, Yayoi is "struck by the familiar smell of home, like the scent of a puppy sleeping in the sun". Then, as a loan shark starts sniffing around, a cop jumps to some unrealistically accurate conclusions, and blackmail and debts strain friendships among the four women, who eventually decide to set up a profitable sideline disposing of other corpses.Īs the plot rumbles on, the flat, functional prose is occasionally illuminated by a strange lyricism. In the meantime he has lost his club, and dedicates himself to tracking down the real killer in order to exact revenge. When bits of Yamamoto are found in a park, the police initially finger Satake for the murder, but eventually have to release him for lack of evidence. She confides in her friends, and they, led by Masako, agree to take Yamamoto's body, cut it up and dispose of it in garbage bags dispersed around Tokyo. When Yamamoto gets home, his wife strangles him with his own belt. One night Satake beats Yamamoto up and throws him out. Yamamoto has also lost all the couple's savings playing baccarat at Satake's club. Yayoi's husband, Yamamoto, is drunk and violent, and obsessed with an escort girl named Anna, who works at a club run by psychopathic gangster Satake. Four Japanese women - Masako, Yayoi, Yoshie and Kuniko - work the night shift together at a factory making boxed lunches.
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