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Directed by: Yoshishige Yoshida
Stars: Mariko Okada, Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Yûko Kusunoki
In the 1920s, the anarchist revolutionary Sakae Osugi is financially supported by his wife, journalist Itsuko Masaoka. He spends his time doing nothing but philosophizing about political systems and free love and visiting with his lovers Yasuko and the earlier feminist Noe Ito. He conveniently defends three principles…
Directed by: Atsushi Fujiura
Stars: Yôko Azusa, Reika Maki, Aoi Nakajima, Ryôta Nakanishi, Naomi Oka, Rei Okamoto, Naomi Tani
The amorous adventures of Reiko, who lives and works in a rural fishing village. Pinku from 1977...
Directed by: Kôji Wakamatsu
Stars: Tamaki Katori, Miki Hayashi, Yôko Mutô
This should be seen as Wakamatsu’s answer to Nagisa Oshima’s The Ceremony, made in the same year. The Japanese family is seen as militaristic, deeply dysfunctional and patriarchal. And only nihilistic destruction by the young ones seems to be the only way out (or is it?)
Directed by: Shôgorô Nishimura
Stars: Kazuko Shirakawa, Junko Miyashita, Taiji Tonoyama
For a girl who works in a 3rd rate bar, Ayuko is full of vanity. Nomura, her patron, is besotted by her and it is their habit that they cannot reach a climax unless they peek at a couple, across the way, making love...
Directed by: Teruo Ishii
Stars: Teruo Yoshida, Masumi Tachibana, Fumio Watanabe
The Joy of Torture is an anthology that is made up three separate stories that all intersect: The first segment is about Shinza who was hurt while working when a log hit him on the head and now sister Mitsu is forced give herself to her brothers boss…
Directed by: Masaru Konuma
Stars: Rei Nakanishi, Eri Kanuma, Erina Miyai
One day Ryosuke has an affair with the girlfriend of a thug, Juro, and Juro rapes Ryosuke’s girlfriend, Mariko, to spite him. Mariko goes into shock and becomes mentally ill, and Ryosuke’s life of abandonment begins.
Directed by: Atsushi Yamatoya
Stars: Miki Watari, Yûichi Minato, Shôhei Yamamoto
A private detective is hired to find a woman who has apparently been murdered in a snuff film. It turns out the woman’s not dead, but very much alive, and he gets sucked into a torrid affair with her that leaves him questioning his sense of reality.
Directed by: Shingo Yamashiro
Stars: Ai Saotome, Kôichi Iwaki, Hiroshi Nawa
Innocent female doctor Mineko was seduced by Sachiko, an aggressive lesbian, in her younger days. Mineko begins dating a male coworker, and accepts an invitation to a party at the home of a transvestite patient. Sachiko comes out of Mineko’s past, enraged with jealousy, and begins tormenting Mineko…
Directed by: Katsuhiko Fujii
Stars: Miki Takakura, Asami Ogawa, Hiromi Yamaguchi
Takako (Miki Takakura) joins a convent after her lover’s wife catches them in the act. She soon discovers that the nuns and a successful writer (Hiroshi Unayama) have conspired to engage in decadent S&M orgies. Based on the novel by Oniroku Dan.
Directed by: Yasuharu Hasebe
Stars: Yôko Azusa, Yutaka Hayashi and Tamaki Katsura
ASSAULT! JACK THE RIPPER is one of those films that just ain't gonna be everyone's cup of tea. It's brutal in it's depiction of rape and murder and has pretty much no redeeming value in terms of "entertaining" cinema - and that's exactly why it is such a…
Directed by: Akio Jissoji
Stars: Shin Kishida, Kôji Shimizu, Hiroko Sakurai
Two student couples stumble upon a cult dedicated to promoting the primordial human state through rape and agriculture. A savage work that explores human sexuality and its articulations with political stances and religion: Two couples of university students swap their partners, one, Yukiko and Shinichi experienced and one,…
Directed by: Kôyû Ohara
Stars: Naomi Tani, Tokuko Watanabe, Michio Murakami
Nikkatsu Films sensation Naomi Tani (FLOWER AND SNAKE) stars as a troubled woman with a troubled past turned barkeep enchanted by the love of a younger man named Kenichi. After trusting a violent junkie to help with her young lover’s singing career, she is sent to prison for…
Directed by: Kôji Wakamatsu
Stars: Yûko Ejima, Tomomi Sahara, Hitomi Suma
From an apartment belonging to a single woman, two detectives spy on sex-obsessed radical.
Directed by: Noboru Tanaka
Saburo Year lives in one of Tokyo’s hotels and at every opportunity is taken to the attic where Realized through holes in the ceiling watches the other guests. Most of all he likes to peep at Madame Minako, which regularly leads to his room men. One observer says…
Directed by: Yasuharu Hasebe
Stars: Mari Tanaka, Keiko Tsuzuki, Yuri Yamashina
A gang consisting of seven women roams around the country to steal and resell everything that makes money. When the gang leader falls in love with a samurai and agrees to steal guns for him, he betrays her and soon the women are chased by many enemies.
Directed by: Kôji Wakamatsu
Stars: Eiko Matsuda, Osamu Sakuta, Atsuko Asano
Eros Eterna tells the story of a legendary immortal nun who wanders around encountering several people of various conditions.
Directed by: Kôyû Ohara
Stars: Junko Asahina, Yumi Hayakawa and Kazuhiko Ishida
A young girl named Mimei is working hard to get as many “penis prints” as possible. She’s been collecting these works of art since high school, and her goal is to get 100 prints before her arranged marriage within the next month. Seeking help from her lesbian friends…
Directed by: Tatsumi Kumashiro
Stars: Junko Miyashita, Eimei Esumi, Gô Awazu
The world is in turmoil with the October Revolution of 1917, riots over the inflationary price of rice, and the military expedition to Siberia in 1918. But Shinsuke spends his days in the arms of geishas, paying little heed to the events happening around him.
Directed by: Noboru Tanaka
Actors: Meika Seri, Junko Miyashita, Genshu Hanayagi Having seen many films on the subject of prostitution, I can honestly say that "She Beast Market" is one of the most harrowing and bleak examinations of the subject. Sordid and sleazy, but somehow never exploitative, "Beast Market" focuses on 2…
Directed by: Kôji Wakamatsu
Three women and three men pulled out of the jeep young couple – Hoshi and Hanako – with hands and feet tied. Before you begin to crack down bandits mock them and using sexual violence. As a result, Hoshi and Hanako are bare, and the girl is crucified…
