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Directed by: Kazuo ‘Gaira’ Komizu
Stars: Saeko Kizuki, Naomi Hagio, Megumi Kawashima, Osamu Tsuruoka, Daiki Katô, Hideki Takahashi, Kazuhiko Goda
A very weird exploitation flick. The whole film seems to centre round a group of dominating male chauvanists abusing young Japanese models after a photo shoot. After which they are butchered one by one by a mud covered nutter with a gigantic penis who lives in a wharehouse.
Directed by: Masayuki Suo
Stars: Ren Osugi, Miki Yamaji, Kei Shuto, Shirô Shimomoto, Kaoru Kaze
The film tells a story about a woman and her relationship with the family of her husband’s, in particular her husband’s younger brother and father-in-law. Her husband, on the other hand, has an affair with a dominatrix and is obsessed in S&M games.
Directed by: Toshiya Fujita
Stars: Tayori Hinatsu, Yûya Uchida, Ittoku Kishibe, Megumi Ogawa
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 make ends meet by working at a bar and in constant conflict with her conservative parents, Mako has to find her…
Directed by: Shôgorô Nishimura
Stars: Rei Akasaka, Ryoko Watanabe, Jôji Nakata, Toshiyuki Kitami, Saeko Kuga
A female high school teacher must deal with sexual harassment from her students and being trapped in a love triangle with two men, neither of whom have any interest in marrying her.
Directed by: Kôyû Ohara
Stars: Kozue Tanaka, Yukihiko Sato, Akiko Hyûga
A young and beautiful woman goes to stay with her “eccentric” brother in the country. He – a crazed millionaire painter – is entranced by his sister’s beauty, the very reason they were separated in their youth. Unable to hide his yearning for his own flesh and blood,…
Directed by: Yoshimitsu Morita
Stars: Kaori Okamoto, Ken Miyawaki, Nami Misaki, Ayako Ota
A frank coming-of-age story, in which young Yoichi falls for Gloria at the local strip joint. Yoichi's innocent nature has him attending her shows every day, filling his mind with her beauty. The standard bittersweet disappointments of the coming-of-age story are offset by irreverent moments of levity; a…
Directed by: Masaru Konuma
Shûzaburô, a noble businessman has a sexual affair with a prostitute. But when he is in the bathroom, she is killed by two thugs. They blackmail him and making him accept to pay a large sum of money. He is offered two alternatives: to pay either 100.000 or…
Directed by: Osamu Dezaki
Stars: John DiMaggio, Denise Poirier, Carlos Ferro
Golgo 13 is hired to assassinate Queen Bee, the second-in-command of a South American rebel army, to prevent her from killing the United States democratic presidential nominee.
Directed by: Hideo Gosha
Stars: Yûko Natori, Rino Katase, Jinpachi Nezu
In 1908, a ruined businessman was forced to sell his daughter, Hisano, to a brothel in Yoshiwara, the largest red-light district in Tokyo. The owners of the brothel has hopes to make her a great new addition which will attract the richest of customers. But after several months…
Directed by: Yasuzô Masumura
Stars: Eiji Funakoshi, Mako Midori, Noriko Sengoku
A blind sculpter kidnaps a beautiful young model and takes her back to his home. He and his mother live in a warehouse that he has turned into a surreal tribute to the senses. It is filled with huge sculptures of body parts and the female form. He…
Directed by: Kôji Wakamatsu
Stars: Eri Ashikawa, Kenji Fukuma, Arisa Hanamura
A kind of blueprint for Wakamatsu’s later work.
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: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi
Stars: Kimiko Ikegami, Miki Jinbo, Kumiko Ohba, Ai Matsubara, Mieko Satô, Eriko Tanaka
Oshare (Gorgeous) is excited about spending summer vacation with her father, until she finds out that his beautiful, freakishly serene girlfriend Ryouko would be going as well. Oshare decides she will be going to her aunt's house in the country instead. She brings with her her friends from…
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: Kôji Wakamatsu
Stars: Ken Yoshizawa, Rie Yokoyama, Yuki Aresa
A group of radical activists soon turn on one another after stealing a large amount of explosives from a US Army base. The characters have unusual names such as Monday and October, and the sects themselves are named after the seasons. There is plenty of sex and violence…
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.
