Naosuke Kurosawa

Documentary on Nikkatsu's Roman Porno film series, with a heavy focus on prolific director Masaru Konuma.

Tatsuo was leading a peaceful suburban life with his wife and daughter. But an ex-girlfriend attends his bridge club. Then Haruo, an old friend, appears. He is being chased by loan sharks and needs shelter. Haruo overstays his welcome and family relations become strained.

When beautiful forensic scientist Kyoko and her colleagues fail to uncover clues to the identity of a man who brutally attacks and kills women, she agrees to become the bait to lure the killer into a police snare. But as the murderer remains frustratingly aloof, Kyoko discovers that she will have to risk everything in order to apprehend him. Naosuke Kurosawa directs this steamy thriller.

A suspense drama based on Miyuki Miyabe. In contrast to herself, she and two women lived a free-spirited life, forcing a restaurant owner to raise funds because of the Shinjuku incident. An office lady who impulsively jumps out of the company because she can't stand the sarcasm of girls at the company witnesses a motorboat accident. However, the accident was treated as suicide...

Kin chan no Cinema Jack is an anthology film starring Yuen Biao and produced by Jackie Chan

Based on the comic book by Hiroyuki Murata.

In Young Lady Detectives, student girls Misao (Nishiwaki) and Harumi (Yuko Mizushima, who specializes in showcasing), stand up for the search engine to avoid getting a genuine profession. Surprisingly, the girls get a workday on the first day, when a man in the office asks them to look for his missing daughter. The task takes the deckers into the traces of criminals forced into sex slavery. The search for work is mostly on the shoulders of Misao, because sexually active Harumi consumes his time mainly in bed. Misao lacks the man’s experience completely.

都会の闇の中にそびえたつビル群。その狭間をクライアントの指示通りに仕事をこなす女殺し屋・優。彼女の身体には決して消せない過去が刻まれていた。甘くけだるい音楽が彼女の耳たぶにまとわりつき、やがて肉体が火照り、彼女は男を求めだす夜の天使(ナイトエンジェル)へと変貌するのだった―

Roriita tsuma: Binetsu (ロリータ妻　微熱) films were a series within Nikkatsu’s Roman Porno series.

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Banned: Woman’s Secret Pictures (発禁・秘画のおんな – Hakkin: Higa no onna) films were a series within Nikkatsu’s Roman Porno series.

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A young man covets his sister-in-law, and spies on her in the bath using a two-way mirror. His desire grows as he watches her have sex with his older brother. Will the voyeur's lust get the best of him?

In the past, a woman was raped by her brother-in-law. Keeping this dark secret, she lives a seemingly happy life with her husband and son, but the son, shocked to find out his real father is the brother-in-law, sets out to do something. The downfall of a mother and her child starts there...

A doctor develops a new scientific breakthrough in female psychotherapy with the discovery of the “Dream Ring,” a device that is inserted into a woman to record her thoughts and dreams. But, one dark and stormy night, the doctor and his assistant end up dead… hanging by ropes from the rafters of their lab. The lovely Reiko suffers from a condition known as “genophobia” (the fear of sexual intercourse), so she is admitted to the Tachibana Clinic for observation. Another group of doctors have the “Dream Ring” device and use it on Reiko to analyze her wildly erotic, and violent, dreams and nightmares. The clinic doctors have more sinister reasons to test this device on Reiko, however, and secretly put her under hypnosis so that the ring is activated at any time she hears the sound of a bell. Can she escape the evil doctors’ experiment and, even if she does, who is that strange person, dressed all in black, following her around?

As rumors spread about a hidden treasure worth 300 billion yen buried somewhere underneath a mountain hot spring resort large numbers of people flock to the local inn hotel managed by a madam with 2 things on their mind.....treasure hunting in the daytime and sex hunting in the night time. The geishas at the inn have their hands full as the inn is fully booked. The rumors even attract a shrewd rich tycoon named Yagisawa to the inn. Yagisawa immediately makes an offer to buy the inn at 80 million yen which is considered too low by the madam. However when "news" that some gold pieces have been unearthed Yagisawa agrees to buy the inn at madams asking price of 100 million yen. Is this a con job or are the buried treasures real?

Naoko is getting a lot of obscene phone calls, so she decides to stay at her girlfriend Mari's home for awhile, afraid of a rape attack. But the telephone calls don't stop, and the mysterious pervert caller is bothering her there too. Naoko reluctantly agrees to meet meet him at a local restaurant, hoping the man will stop. When she arrives, Naoko is surprised to find the café is operated by Harada, a man whom she and Mari had liked so much in the past that, in fact, they had cat fights over him at their working places. It was due to a love triangle scuffle that they had been both fired from their previous jobs.

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Roman Porno from 1980.

A housewife is brutally assaulted in an unfinished construction zone of her apartment complex by a masked man. She somehow survives but other women are soon discovered, murdered then set on fire. Meanwhile she reignites an affair with a former lover but slowly begins to suspect he might be connected to the killings.

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脱獄囚に犯された裕福な大学教授夫人は、その男の子供を身籠ってしまう。そうした出生の秘密を持つ加納達也は莫大な財産を手に入れ、自分の欲望のおもむくままに異常な性行為に耽り、遂には人気絶頂のアイドル歌手まで拉致監禁してしまうのだった。

夏のある日、ちひろ(原悦子)は養父・軍治(江角英明)の危篤の報に6年ぶりに帰郷した。自宅は軍治が警官を辞してから射的屋を営んでいた。彼女は店内に入ると店番をしている光一(田山涼成)がいた。彼によれば、軍治は危険な状態は回避したもののガンに冒されており、余命3か月と診断されているという。ちひろは冷ややかな表情だった。彼女の脳裏には6年前の、高校2年生の夏の一場面が蘇っていた。 ・・・軍治は警官の制服姿のまま拳銃をちひろに突きつける。「お前が憎い。こんな女らしく育ったお前をみてると、たった11歳で殺されちまったみゆきが思い出されて・・・」軍治はちひろを押し倒し・・・。

Roman Porno from 1979.

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吉原のトルコ街で生きる男と、それに絡む二人の家出娘を中心に、都会の片隅でけなげに生きて行く人々の姿を描く。

良介はチンピラ、十郎の恋人と関係してしまい、それを知った十郎は良介の恋人、真理子を強姦してしまう。彼女はそのショックで気が狂い、良介の捨て鉢の人生が始まる。やがて良介はマコと結婚するが、ある時、胸の痛みに襲われ入院する。彼はマコを抱いてやれない己れに、憎悪と悲しみを感じた。やがて退院した良介は、マコと交わっていると、又しても胸の痛みに襲われ病院に運ばれる。病院をぬけだした良介は雨に濡れながら歌っている狂った少女を見た。真理子を想い出した良介は少女を部屋に連れて帰る。そして三人の奇妙な共同生活が始まる。妊娠したマコは良介の留守に少女を連れだし、青森の精神病院に入れてしまった。マコは良介に過去を捨てて平凡な夫婦生活を夢見てほしかったのだ。事情を知った良介は、マコの妊娠も優しさも知らず部屋を飛びだし、青森へ向かった。ねぶた祭りに酔う町の中を良介は少女を捜し求めた。再会した少女はすっかり荒れはて、真理子のイメージは消えうせていた。良介は東京に帰るが、マコは変っていた。二人の愛はすれちがい、別れを迎えるのであった。

The story of a second rate detective asked to tail a mysterious woman who is cheating on her man.

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A man and a woman who met in a park in the city draw a figure that desperately loves each other while being chased by the hardship.

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Rumiko is a misbehaving girl who got caught stealing the cash her father had at home for bribes. Father would not accuse her of that, but when he caught her having sex with her English teacher, he was justified in sending her to a monastery, where the nuns try to force her to become a good girl. However, after a few days in forced piety, Rumiko (now Sister Lucia) discovered that her sins were nothing in comparison with those of other Sisters, and Mother Superior's.

A young teacher (Eiko Nagashima) is raped by students. She tries to resign but then decides to return and face the class.

Satirizing the Roman Porno genre, and the Office Lady Journal series in particular. Naomi Tani and Yuko Katagiri appear as themselves in the film, making fun of their on-screen personae.

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Based on the manga of the same name by Kazuo Kamimura.

Roman Porno from 1976. Hitomi Kozue's penultimate role.

The film is based on 17th century Chinese erotic novel by Li Yu best known as The Carnal Prayer Mat. Mio is a struggling writer who writes a pornographic book entitled Flesh Futon which becomes a surprise best seller. With his newfound wealth, Mio begins indulging in the nightlife, excusing his activities to his wife by saying it is for research. Mio's reputation comes crashing down when a prostitute reports that his penis is like a "guppy". More bad luck follows. His book is banned, and his wife puts him on a short leash. At the height of his misfortune, his house is robbed. Mio meets the robber who turns out to be the Japanese folk-hero Nezumi Kozō. The two become friends, and Kozō introduces Mio to a doctor who can perform penis-enlargement surgery. With his new equipment, Kozō and Mio become frequenters of the red-light district, until the real Nezumi Kozō appears, and evil luck returns to Mio.

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Roman Porno from 1975.

A wife charges her husband with sexual battery. He escapes from the police and goes into hiding. In three years, she divorces him and tries to put the pieces of her life back in order, when suddenly he returns. Obsessed with rage and hatred, he kidnaps her and brings her to a house in a remote wooded area. There he disciplines her vehemently, subjecting her to increasingly shocking forms of sexual torture, tetherings, suspensions and humiliations. Astonishingly, through the rage and lust, the pair develops a relationship that pushes the boundaries of lurid passions and perverse obsessions.