Around 10 a.m. on the morning of April 8, 1986, 18-year-old Japanese singer Yukiko Okada was found with a slashed wrist in her gas-filled Tokyo apartment, crouching in a closet and sobbing. She had written a note which implied that things had not gone her way in a real or imagined romance with an actor old enough to be her father. Two hours later, still despondent and even more disoriented, Okada jumped to her death from a seven-story building.