A Family s Choice Seijun Suzuki, 1983

A single mothers exhusband refuses to pay for their sons schooling. While working in hospice care, a dying patient offers to kill her exhusband psychically so their son will collect life insurance. When her exhusband turns up dead, she becomes the prime suspect. Alongside the most esoteric and bizarre art films of his career (the Taisho films and Capone), Suzuki directed two mysteries in the 80s as selfcontained episodes of TV series. These are much more straightforward and easily to follow than the films he was releasing theatrically at the time (or his 70s TV work), but they harken back to his early days as a genre filmmaker, and there are still lots of eccentric touches and powerful images.