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2 unusual facts about Richard Setlowe


Richard Setlowe

Abe's notoriety gained international infamy primarily through Nagisa Oshima's film, In the Realm of the Senses (1976).

The gruesome "night letter" nailed on Saxon's hotel room door recalls the true story of geisha Sada Abe, well known in Japan for having carried her lover's severed genitalia in her handbag after killing him by erotic asphyxiation.



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