Maya Shiraki

The plot line concerns a television newswoman who attempts to boost ratings for her sagging midday news show by creating a plot to get her sister raped live on the air. Graphic and mean-spirited, the film nonetheless shows how effective the "rub their nose in it" school of satire can often be.

A hospital nurse treating a patient for amnesia discovers that he is the serial killer who has been roaming the city armed with a metal baseball bat. (Robert Firsching)