Butter

Journalist Rika becomes obsessed with the idea of writing a series of articles about Manako Kaziya—a woman suspected of extortion and murders of her own admirers. She surrounded men with care and love, fed them home-cooked meals, lived off their money… and then they would die. But what surprises the public isn’t so much the crimes themselves as the killer’s appearance: her fullness doesn’t match the image of a fatal kept woman. Rika wants to uncover the secret of Kaziya—why men loved her, and where she got such confidence. To approach the mysterious criminal, Rika asks her for a recipe for beef stew—one of the murdered men was eating it right before he died. In response, the woman demands that Rika begin cooking too. Trying to gain Manako’s trust, the journalist doesn’t notice how she herself becomes caught in a web of manipulation and lies, gradually losing control over her own life… The story of a murderess housewife, based on real events.