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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.
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: Hiroyuki Nasu
Stars: Natsuko Yamamoto, Kaoru Oda, Koji Mizukami
For the in-discriminating viewer who simply wants a story about pretty naked girls in lesbian embrace, this is the movie to see. There is not much plot to clutter the soft-core action, but there is an abundance of exploratory nudity. Director Nasu seems to suffer from delusions of…
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: 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.
