Better Not Disclose the Name

A boy. Born in Japan during the WW2 era. He has been a badass from his early childhood and has caused trouble to his parents numerous times, including fighting with an army officer and marrying a girl from another religious belief when he grows up. Now, this marriage may seem okay but when your father is a God-fearing priest, this is something you should be careful about. Although his father agreed, at last, she had to be converted and it was mostly his son's reluctance— the priest had no choice.

It all seems normal, right?

Now, imagine you have 2 kids and unfortunately, you had to go to prison for a long time. In the meantime, your wife grows affection towards your father. It's not just an affection that symbolises the love between family members but a desperate wanting that ends in seduction. What do psychologists have to say about this relationship?

Although the father-in-law and daughter-in-law relationship involve a 'father' and 'daughter,' this is not the typical 'Electra complex' we are familiar with. Do you call it an extramarital affair? No, it's more than that. It's a filthy act in the land of the almighty, a priest and his daughter-in-law involved in an intimate relationship— it's more like spitting on the face of lovers; a certain doom.

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You’ve grown hatred towards that priest, right? Actually, he is innocent and tries to avoid his son’s wife whenever he encounters but it’s her who forces his hands onto her melons :| So, how long do you expect a man to hold his manhood repressed?

Despite the continuous attempt of his daughter-in-law to lure him into sin, he partially manages to stay safe. Sometimes he advances but returns in the middle of the act— perhaps his heart is not that much corrupted yet. Perhaps he is true to his elderly wife. Whatever— he is a man with strong will and great conscience; he invites one of his friends to accompany his son’s wife for he is God’s man; committing adultery is prohibited but he understands the loneliness of his son’s wife. Hence, he arranges an empty house with none but a man with ill intentions and his daughter-in-law. Conscience, eh?

Watching all these scenes was already psychologically tormenting. It sends a shiver down the spine whenever such intimate scenes appear on the screen. To make it even worse, the son got released from prison and back home, his wife refuses to sleep with him. Twist of the story in development. As her husband is famous for his bad behaviour and sick mindset, it didn’t take long for him to guess what was going on around here. But he couldn’t figure out his god-fearing father would do it and he carried out an investigation. As things got revealed, he starts to nag his wife and father— quite a scene to witness. You are making fun of your father to sleep with your wife— dang!! On top of that, you have found the man your father asked to sleep with your wife and now you ask him to pay money all while forcing him to describe how he did it— I have seen many psycho movies, mostly Korean, but this goes to another level. For the Japanese, who used to blur things at certain mini-movies just a few years back in the name of censorship, dramatising such a fictional story back in the ‘60s is surely a thing.

The reason I don’t want you to know the name is the possibility of psychological unrest. All the descriptions may not seem as intense as I intend to highlight, but the dramatisation actually has a more severe impact on the mind. And I really hope I don’t encounter such movies in the future.