A somewhat liberal adaptation of the life of painter Shuu Ito, the film focuses on his sexual torture of two wives and a prostitute. Ito chronicles the sessions in journals, shares his pseudo-Sadean philosophy, and drives women mad with equal hell-bent intensity.
A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual relationship.
The film depicts the relationship between a beautiful teacher and a male teacher, popular among female students, an excellent student who tells the teacher about his feelings using an answering machine, and a high school student who bets on whether she can have a relationship with a male teacher. This is the debut full-length work by Hideo Nakata.
Sachiko has just committed a crime. She is helped by a couple to whom she grants her confidence. Quickly this couple blackmails her and threatens to deliver her to the police. Sachiko has no other choice but to obey them.
An unsatisfied married woman reconnects with a friend who has been engaging in peculiar sexual practices with her own artist husband.
Akiko is the heir to a yakuza clan. Hitoshi, who has been kicked out of the rival Hono Clan after attempting to seduce Akiko, kidnaps her at the behest of Hanamura. Hanamura has formed a new gang and intends to use Akiko as a hostage to take over her clan's territory. During the torture and abuse sessions which follow, Akiko comes to enjoy the treatment and forsakes her gangland empire.
Shinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing pranks. They drop out and Shinji becomes a small-time boxer, while Masaru joins up with a local yakuza gang. However, the world is a tough place.
A backstage documentary and interview with the real life lesbian stage performer Kaoru Kiri mixed with a fictional life of her rejected lover.
A tragic love story between a prostitute and a young trainee monk.
Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.
A detective wonders that his sister is a murder suspect.
A former mistress, an unhappy wife and a frisky female college student meet in a bar. It turns out that they all have developed an interest an eligible doctor.
Rejected by the military and frowned upon by his fellow villagers, a young man nicknamed 'Genius' falls into a series of dangerous love affairs during World War II.
After a passenger ship sinks in 1954, Go Akutsu devises a life-saving project in the form of a tunnel under the Tsugaru Strait. While working on this project Akutsu becomes involved with Tae Makimura leading to his estrangement from his wife.
A 40-something disillusioned novelist, Yazoe, haunted by a failed marriage and a crippling personal secret, navigates hollow affairs with a courtesan named Chieko while projecting his emotional void onto the protagonists of his love novels—until an accidental encounter with a naive college student, Noriko Seyawa, unravels his guarded solitude, forcing him to confront his fear of intimacy and the buried trauma shaping his twisted philosophy on love.
Hairstylist Misa meets S&M enthusiast Ippei and is convinced to give it a try. Then later, Ippei's ex-wife, who happens to be one of Misa's beauty shop clients, begins a sexual relationship with her. The lesbian affair is also accentuated by some more S&M.
Aki is an unsuccessful 29-year-old actress who eventually became a magician's assistant. While pretending to be hypnotised on the stage, Aki finds the boundary between reality and illusion becoming increasingly vague. For Aki, the only beautiful memory she has was the time spent with her lover Kaito.
Rokuheita Narumi is fascinated by oriental art and works as the director of the Saho Art Museum in Nara. His wife, Noriko, is unable to leave Tokyo, despite his wishes, and the two live separately. Feeling lonely and neglected by her husband, she immerses herself in the depraved life of the city and continues to have a loveless relationship with a doctor, Katsumori. One day, Narumi arrives in Tokyo and learns of Noriko's affair, but he cannot divorce her for the sake of their child, so he devotes himself to his work.
A true-life tale of a broken woman whose hedonistic tryst with a high-class restaurateur resulted in a horrific crime of passion that littered Tokyo headlines in 1936.
The amorous adventures of three shellfish divers who live and work in a rural fishing village.
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 Minamoto Clan. When the Taira Clan had met ignominious defeat at the hands of Yoshitsuné, Kenreimon-in had jumped into the sea with her son, the infant Emperor, but only she had been rescued by Yoshitsuné. A rough-hewn warrior, Yoshitsuné had taken her by force until he awakened an answering love in the Empress with his chamber techniques.
A coming-of-age entertainment film set to the tune of the hit song of the same name, depicting the friendship between a young photographer who believes in tomorrow and strives to live a bright and healthy life, and his three daughters.
A young couple and his wife's sister live in a housing complex. When her wife becomes suspicious of the relationship between her husband and her sister, she falls into an unexpected trap.
At Shizumoto, a geisha shop not far from Ginza, a group of geisha are going about their day, putting up a modest resistance to the tragedies of life. The proprietress, Ikuyo, is a ridiculously good-natured woman who gives money to a poor but brilliant young man, Eisaku Yanoguchi, to attend college on the condition that he will take care of her in the future.
For a little extra money a college student agrees to pose as a nude model for a magazine. But she finds out too late that the magazine is a pornographic one. When it gets published it causes problems with her boyfriend who happens to see it. She is persuaded into do a few more sessions and each time the setups becomes more extreme. She begins to lose herself in heat of passion and doesn’t notice the camera is shooting when the action turns into the real thing.
Three young boys drunkenly rape a woman named Emiko, the wife of a man they've developed a friendship with. She dies of heart failure during the attack. Her chicken farmer husband, incapable of dealing with her death tends to her corpse as though it were still alive completely unable to accept her demise.
A young man travels to Egypt and becomes embroiled in an independence movement by chance. Produced entirely on location overseas, which was groundbreaking at the time.
Asami Ogawa in her first leading role as an office lady with a healthy sexual appetite who grows bored with the limited choices that society offers her.
A man was sentenced to prison for rape. After he was released on parole he had a difficult time finding work. He tried to resist the sexual urges that put him away but his inner beast keeps resurfacing with brutal results. Then one day on his way to another interview he meets a married woman.
A three-member motorcycle gang spends its time raping women until one member’s sister gets involved.
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 their porn script. For the next week, the three men conduct interviews with many young women, seeking to discover their next starlet.
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 alive and the innate strength of post-war women.
Rejected by the military and frowned upon by his fellow villagers, a young man nicknamed 'Genius' falls into a series of dangerous love affairs during World War II.
Shares 2 cast members · Same director
A true-life tale of a broken woman whose hedonistic tryst with a high-class restaurateur resulted in a horrific crime of passion that littered Tokyo headlines in 1936.
Shares a lead actor · Same director
Three young boys drunkenly rape a woman named Emiko, the wife of a man they've developed a friendship with. She dies of heart failure during the attack. Her chicken farmer husband, incapable of dealing with her death tends to her corpse as though it were still alive completely unable to accept her demise.
Shares a lead actor · Same director
While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.
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A serial killing occurs at a port town brothel.
A tragicomedy that happened to three couples who switched partners, turning sex into a simple game to break off marital relations, gripped by a painful mood!
The story depicts the process of a happy family being destroyed by someone taking advantage of a traffic accident caused by buying a car to show off to the neighbors.
A married office lady is assaulted in the dark at a company outing. At work she doesn’t know who to suspect but thoughts of the attack strangely excite her.
After surviving the slaughter of many Christians 350 years ago, a samurai denounces God for ignoring the pleas of believers. He sells his soul to Satan and receives the power to resurrect the dead to join him in a murderous rampage.
Hyakkimaru, a warrior on a quest to reclaim 48 of his body parts which were each taken by a demon, is joined by Dororo, a thief on a quest to avenge the death of her parents.
A documentary compilation that shows various clips from the Roman Porno series of movies from 1971 to 1988.
Eiji Akutsu is a newspaper reporter. He is working on unsolved case that took place 30 years ago. The case involved a group of people extorting several companies for money. The group sent cassette tapes to the companies. Eiji Akutsu comes across a mysterious cassette tape. Meanwhile, Toshiya Sone lives in Kyoto and runs a tailor shop. He discovers a cassette tape among his late father's possessions. He plays the cassette tape and hears his voice from his childhood days.
A tough female cop matches wits with a blackmailing killer.
A suspense drama that comically depicts the intersection of love, sex, and money between men and women. One day, an affair with Taro Mishima's wife, Itsuko, and his subordinate Akizuki was discovered. Mishima blames them, but the relationship with hostess Noriko is pointed out. After all this, they divorce and each remarry. However, Mishima's carnal desire extended to a young housekeeper Kimiko. Noriko's son Takashi marries his former lover, Etsuko. They start a new life at the residence of Mishima. Two men and three women cross each other under one roof, and a storm of desire blows up.
