The Insect Woman

She lives by instinct with no sense of right or wrong.

A bleak, multi-generational portrait of a woman trapped in cycles of poverty and exploitation, using her life as a metaphor for humanity's inability to escape its nature.

A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repeating its mistakes, as in an infinite circle. Imamura, with this metaphor, introduces the life of Tome, who keeps trying to change her poor life.