Yoshiwara

Yoshiwara, the centuries-old pleasure quarter in tokyo, is the backdrop for a story set in japan on the eve of the second world war, where an american journalist, recruited by the office of naval intelligence becomes entangled in a web of espionage and murder that includes; a woman sold to a bordello in yoshiwara, who falls in love with the journalist; a female serial killer, who stalks and kills patrons of yoshiwara; a husband and wife, members of japan's outcast society, the burakumin, who agree to work for oni in exchange for safe passage out of japan; and an officer in the japanese secret police, the kempei tai, who suspects that the journalist and the burakumin couple are spies.