Tokuko Watanabe

A young man is conflicted. He is trying to raise his high school aged sister and keep her out of trouble in their rough and tumble neighborhood. But...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Ohtani

A cruel and sadistic landowner buys a daughter from a noble samurai family who had incurred a large debt. Months later, the landowner's sister comes...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Naomi Tani

Kizaki kidnaps Yuriko and engages in a rape and torture session with her, which he photographs. With the photos, he blackmails flower arrangement...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Naomi Tani

A troubled ex-prostitute turned barkeep is enchanted by the love of a younger man named Kenichi. After trusting a violent junkie to help with her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Naomi Tani

A college professor wants to bring the joys of sex to his frigid wife. He convinces his son in law to sleep with her because the idea arouses him,...

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Cast: Shigeko Ando

A young woman with an unrequited love for her step brother has their relationship upended when a despondent couple wanders into town.

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Cast: Natsuko Yashiro

Following a stint in reform school, Ryu (Shinsuke Shimada) returns to his home, the Minami area of Osaka, accompanied by his new friend Ko (Takeshi...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shinsuke Shimada

Zenjiro (Masaru Shiga) is a lowlife criminal, roaming the country with his merry band of crooks, gamblers and rapists. When he gets done with his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eiko Matsuda

The story tells of the adoration of Sasuke for his mistress, the blind samisen-teacher Shunkin, who treats him imperiously and subjects him to cruel...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

A horny college student is spotted peeping and is chased into a dark tunnel. He mysteriously emerges into a topsy turvy erotic dreamland.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Izumi Shima

A shiftless resident in a boarding house spends his days crawling in the attic and spying on the renters below. One day he spies an elegant lady...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Junko Miyashita

Two young delinquent girls survive on the streets by selling themselves as high school students. But the local girl gang catches them working their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Asako Kurayoshi

The men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company that rapes his own daughter, despotic and...

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Cast: Kō Nishimura

After a bungled robbery attempt, two thugs kidnap a bride on her wedding day.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Noriaki Abe

Taken out of the pages of history itself, this is the story of the sizzling love between Kenreimon-in of the Taira Clan and Yoshitsuné of the...

Genre: History

Cast: Tokuko Watanabe

Two tough young street hustlers, Keiko and Kaori, challenge a large organization called the Sukeban Mafia that is involved in drug dealing and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Asako Kurayoshi

Fuyuko, a married woman filled with grief after a miscarriage, has an affair with a younger man and finds herself involved in a robbery plot. For...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hiromi Okamoto

A single woman has a series of messy relationships while feeling that her maternal clock is running out.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michiko Komori

The background is Yuraku-cho in Tokyo and the film shows how desperately the women, who had led sheltered lives before the war, struggled to keep...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Reiko Kayama

A daughter returns home to her ailing adopted father. A home that has a violent past, missing money and a tragic misunderstanding.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Etsuko Hara

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Cast: Takako Kitagawa

On the advice of their horoscopes, a scenario writer, a producer and a director take a working vacation to a hot spring in the hopes of finishing...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Natsuko Yashiro

The daughter of divorced parents lives with her mother in Tokyo. On the weekends, she takes the train to her hometown of Koga, in Ibaraki Prefecture,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mai Inoue

Utamaro was an artist who lived in Edo (which was later to become modern-day Tokyo) in the late 18th century. This film, which has a complex and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Kishida

Time passes quietly without incident. Shizue lives peacefully as a wife. Masako, who is Shizue's friend and lives in Nagoya, uses Shizue as an alibi...

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Cast: Junko Miyashita

It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the substitution of putting a parent into an old people's home...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

The film is a series of vignettes from Taiji Tonoyama's life and film clips, interspersed with a dialogue to camera by Nobuko Otowa, addressing the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Naoto Takenaka

Toward the end of World War II, middle-aged soldier Keita is entrusted with a postcard from a comrade who is sure he will die in battle. After the...

Genre: War

Cast: Etsushi Toyokawa

Masao Nishimura is a cheerful young man who works at a pastry shop. But he has another face. At night, Nishimura peeks out his favorite telescope...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Daisuke Ban

After having dropped out of school and given birth at age 16, Mako has little choice but to move in with the baby's deadbeat father. Struggling to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tayori Hinatsu

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Cast: Natsuko Yashiro

Hikaru is a female teacher at an all boy's high school. Yata is a mysterious student who transfers from another school. He is the younger brother of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tokuko Watanabe

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Cast: Kazuhiko Yakata

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Cast: Teruo Matsunaga

A woman on her honeymoon sees a girl being sexually assaulted. It brings back memories of her own past trauma. At a resort she is shocked to find the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Erina Miyai

What was the trauma that turned a demure middle class wife into a slum dwelling whore while the husband is away at work?

Genre: Drama

Cast: Izumi Shima

A female college student who grew up in a wealthy family, and a younger half-sister who doesn't even know who she is. She is a young and mature...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kaori Okamoto

A river crossing is blocked and various traveling couples are stranded at an inn. Everybody has their secrets and the police are looking for a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mina Asami

A sex therapist treats various couples who are having problems in bed.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Izumi Shima

Independent scifi film by Izo Hashimoto.

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Cast: Tomoko Ikuta

Yoshinari Bessho, the feudal lord of Tanba Province, is a collector of butterflies and has his concubines tattooed with butterflies as well. One day...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Akiko Kana