In 1923 Tokyo Lady Minako is the owner of a shabby boarding house with a collection of bizarre characters for tenants . Gōda , one of her tenants , spends most of his time in the attic spying on the other tenants through holes he has drilled into the ceiling . During one of his peeping sessions , Gōda witnesses the murder of one of the tenants at the hand of Lady Minako . Gōda becomes obsessed with Lady Minako , and determines to commit a grotesque murder in order to prove to her that he is her soul mate . He kills another tenant - a priest - by dripping poison into his mouth through the ceiling . A series of grotesque murders follow . The film ends apocalyptically with the Great Kantō earthquake which kills both of them during their intercourse
Great Kantō earthquake
1923 Great Kantō earthquake
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