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In 1940, Kubota Shoten, which has been in business for generations, goes bankrupt due to the debauched lifestyle of its president, Kunimitsu Kubota. Subsequently, Kunimitsu moves back to his hometown and his children are sent to live with other relatives.
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A Japanese soldier is forced to question alliances when he meets and falls in love with the leader of the rebel movement.
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From the point-of-view of the children, "Mother" tells the story of the most unappreciated, loving and giving mother, who would sacrifice her own life, and sometimes the life of others, for her loved ones. In the autumn of 1955, a family of five children is living in the Tohoku area. In order to take care of her paralysed husband, the mother has to sacrifice her five children by giving them away. The children has to suffer all the loneliness and hardships that this decision has brought them. 15 years have passed, all five of them have got married. Now, they come to understand that their mother's love for them was the greatest love of all.
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Keiichi (Kenichi Hagiwara) is a weather man. He gets involved with two married women, Yoshiko (Mitsuko Baisho) and Miyoko (Chieko Baisho). Both want to divorce but are trapped in meaningless marriages. While being undecided of who he wants to chose, Keiichi witnesses passions boil to an unforgiving climax.
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An old woman has died and her widower with dementia confesses to killing her. After this, the story goes back in time to show the events leading up to her death.
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Toru was an ordinary businessman. One day he found a doll in the trash, and he took it home. In the next morning, he heard strange noises in the house, although he was supposed to be living alone. He finds out that the doll has turned into a real girl, naked, wearing only an apron. And they start to live together.
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A young man returns home from the bar only to find a woman who was about to kill herself. Taking her home and protecting her, he learns that she’s escaped from a violent husband. but there’s more to her story than she's willing to tell at first.
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A drama depicting the conflict between a man that ran to an old lover suffering from advanced leukemia, his wife and child that were left behind, and the friendship that develops between his wife and his former lover.
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団鬼六原作の「花と蛇」が初代SMの女王・谷ナオミ主演作以来の禁を解き、2度目のシリーズ映画化！主演は麻生かおり。脚本・桂千穂、ロマンポルノのマエストロ西村昭五郎監督によるSM巨篇。
成田に向かう高級車の後部座席で、遠山静子は夫・義隆の執拗な愛撫に身悶えしていた。遠山家に代々仕える運転手の川田は、白薔薇のように美しい静子に恋心を抱いていた。遠山家には前妻の子である高校生の娘・京子がいたが、静子が遠山家に入ったことでグレてしまい、葉桜団というスケバングループのリーダーになっていた。京子から電話があり、仲間からリンチを受けそうだから三百万円持って来て欲しいとのことだった。静子が川田と約束の場所に行くとリンチは狂言で、京子と仲間の銀子たちは静子に襲いかかり裸にして縛り上げると、口封じのために恥ずかしい写真を撮影した。静子は自分の秘部がいじられいたぶられると、意に反して快楽が高ぶっていくのを感じていた。暴力団・田代組の津山が現われ、川田と京子にバクチの借金の返済を迫った。津山はこの狂言の仕掛け人だった。京子は三百万円から払おうとしたが銀子は承知せず仲間割れしてしまう。そこで津山は静子、京子、川田を田代組長のところへ連れていった。静子に敵意を持つ京子を利用して、田代は二人をサドとマゾに調教していく。剃毛、そして浣腸で静子はのたうち、京子はサディスティックな喜びをおぼえていた。
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Six year old Momoko and Motoharu are turned suddenly into High school students. And more than that they have now psychic powers.
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Nikkatsu Roman Porno
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A female highschool teacher must deal with sexual harrassment from her students and being trapped in a love triangle with two men, neither of whom has any interest in marrying her.
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Nikkatsu Roman Porno
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A sensual drama depicting a man who lives like a pimp with his wife and three other women.
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Nikkatsu Roman Porno
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A high school science teacher is popular among male students, and this worked out badly for her...
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A lovesick midinette ends up accepting a date with a stranger who buys her flowers every day. Charmed by his playboy physique, she moves in with him and submits to his fantasies.
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Former boxer Kazuo, who has fallen, finds a spring picture in a tea envelope in a house. Kazuo returns to herself with a noise and sees Kyoko in her dimly lit bedroom is sullenly sleeping.
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An eros drama depicting a couple or lover indulging in swapping in search of pleasure. Yoshii, a fledgling reporter for swapping magazines, visits Mr. and Mrs. Sakura. Yoshii experiences the technique of Sakura's wife, Akane.
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Roman Porno from 1982. A young university associate professor sells her body as a high-class prostitute while her husband is away, despite being in a calm relationship. The husband, while turning a blind eye to the behavior of such a wife, begins to feel a masochistic pleasure, and two people connect with a mysterious marital love.
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Nikkatsu Roman Porno
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A sex-comedy starring rock star Michiko Komori.
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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?
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Roman Porno from 1982. A young woman embezzles five million yen from her company and flees with her boyfriend, attempting to start a new life...
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Roman Porno from 1982.
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Roman Porno from 1982.
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George is a washed-up middle-aged rocker, who divorces his wife and lives with his girlfriend, a soap massage parlor worker.
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A woman endures the life of a prostitute for a yakuza pimp.
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Three high school student girls are on their spring break. They are expecting to get some sex of course. One becomes an adult magazine model. The second one nets a boyfriend. The third one is a little shy and needs helps from her friends. This last girl has fallen in love so her friends take her to his window and, by chance, arrive when mother is performing fellatio on son. The shy and pure third girl is in awe of a mother 'eating' genitalia and wants to give a similar performance.
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80年代のヒーロー復活の時流に乗ってヘラルドが送り出した新作・月光仮面。理想国家建設を掲げる“ニューラブ・カントリー”というカルト集団に月光仮面が挑む。
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An office lady follows his boss, whose work affairs had been discovered inside the company and he has been ordered to be transferred to another workplace.
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A beautiful young ballet dancer is accepted into a prestigious and exclusive dance academy. Overjoyed at the opportunity to further her career and repair her relationship with her boyfriend, she soon discovers that the academy has a much, much darker side to it--and she may not be able to escape it.
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Nikkatsu Roman Porno
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流産した悲しみに打ちひしがれていた冬子。彼女はふとしたきっかけで出会った若者・修に体を奪われ、彼の若さに惹かれていく。やがて冬子は妊娠し、修に会いにいく。そこへ修の女・アケミの借金の取り立てがやってきて、冬子は騒ぎに巻き込まれてしまう。
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Roman Porno from 1979.
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Nikkatsu Roman Porno production featuring Ayako Meki in her film debut.
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Iwata, cheerleader of a university, Odagiri, a free lance cameraman, and Sekiguchi, a day laborer working on a subway project. As they pass an area dotted with the villas of affluent people, they decide to stop at one to ask the owner to let them put through a phone call. What they seen when they enter the gate makes them draw in their breaths quickly and causes their pulses to begin to race madly – Miki, a lass whose only claim to fortune are marvelous breasts, cute nipples and a figure even every top model dreams of having...
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Nikkatsu Roman Porno
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1979 Nikkatsu Roman Porno film. Senkichi, a middle-aged salaryman, started to feel lonely just by repaying a mortgage. This black humor Roman Porno depicts him with a subtle touch as he tries to gain sex freedom from his wife. Based on a novella by Akio Jissoji.
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Nikkatsu Roman Porno
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A parable about the inefficiency and anachronism of the Japanese educational system, which places an unusually large amount of importance on cramming for university entrance examinations, Panic High School is about the suicide of a high school student and its ensuing fallout at his school. When one of his classmates becomes frustrated with the math teacher's lack of sensitivity to the suicide, the student steals a rifle, returns to school, aerates the teacher's chest and then holds members of his class captive. This leads to an aggressive standoff with the police and lots of shots of his parents crying and bowing in shame, totally mortified.
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Nikktatsu Roman Porno
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Roman Porno from 1978. A woman wants revenge on a corporation for its role in the death of her parents, and she is willing to go to great lengths to achieve her goal.
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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.
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Roman Porno from 1977. One day, school student named Jun, suffering from exam hell, meets a dazzling woman named Naoko...
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The amorous adventures of Reiko, who lives and works in a rural fishing village.
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Roman Porno from 1977.
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The lovely Ryoko is attending a Japanese University on an exchange program. She’s pretty, vulnerable, shy and full of mysterious secrets. Meeting up with her long-time friend Rumiko, Ryoko shuns her aggressive lesbian advances by saying she’s still a virgin. Rumiko is surprised at this revelation and, over the next few days, she takes Ryoko on a series of misadventures to help her with her sexual awakening...
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“Get them all – girls, school credits, money – without an effort!" These are the rumors that freshman Hachirota Kawachi heard about the pep squad; his reasons for instant enrollment. Hachirota may fall a few screws short of a hardware store, but when it comes to yakuza ties, he has plenty. He is the direct descendant and heir to the notorious Akushin-kai gang. Although this was enough information to keep the pep squad seniors quiet, it’s not quite enough for Aota.
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A Nikkatsu Roman Porno movie
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A blackmail ring uses illicit photos of an unfaithful wife to force her into prostitution.
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Life in the pep squad is all about harsh discipline. Seniors are "Gods", juniors are "Humans", sophomores are "Slaves" and freshmen are treated like "Trash". One sunny day, two freshmen are entrusted with the task to dry out the squadron's flag; the most cherished and symbolic item of the squad. When they accidentally burn a hole in the flag with a cigarette, they blame Aota. Aota attempts to take full responsibility by committing "harakiri", but changes his mind during the process – a deep stab to the stomach has inspired him with a better idea.
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Nikkatsu Roman Porno. The story of a mixed-race callgirl with a high-class clientele.
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The third installment of the popular "Lesbian World" series. A young evades a male stalker, running to a woman who could teach her the true joys of of love and sex. However, the woman's mistress takes out her knife out of jealousy...
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"Jealous" man-killer Mayumi (Hitomi Kozue) is sent back into solitary confinement after being re-arrested for the murder of the doctor who fingered her for a botched surgery. After emerging from solitary confinement to find an all-new gang of bullies picking on a meek, young female prisoner, Mayumi is now a much harder soul who takes no attitude from anyone, and she turns savage when the poor girl is enslaved by Yakuza.
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Roman Porno from 1975.
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Roman Porno from 1975.
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Shizu is a housewife whose husband has just flown to Germany to work in his company's branch office. During her husband's absence, Shizu makes her first fatal mistake with her brother-in-law which leads to other men and her involvement with gangsters, dragging her into a mire from which she cannot escape.
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Drama about young people in the Japanese rock scene starring the lead singer of Japanese rock band The Tigers (1966-1971, 1981-1983).
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Gimme gimme gimme! Yusaku Matsuda and his gang are on the hunt for women, money and more money! The late legendary actor, Yusaku Matsuda, stars in this explosive motion picture about the hedonistic lifestyles of four roughnecks directed by Yukihiro Sawada. Takeo Natsuki (Yusaku Matsuda) was just released from prison. He was the leader of three rascals; all they did was cause trouble. When they meet a girl whose father is resisting a forced eviction to make way for a construction site, they come up with their own plans to solve the problem.
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Roman Porno from 1974.
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Roman Porno from 1974.
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Roman Porno from 1974.
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The film depicts the private life wrapped in the mysterious veil of the dancer Gypsy Rose, who was known as the Monroe of Japan and enthused a wide range of fans.
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Pinku from 1974.
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Pinku from 1973.
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Nikkatsu Roman Porno
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ある地方都市。ベトナム救済募金が数人の覆面グループに強奪された。グループは犯行が終るや、何くわぬ顔で警察官に早変り、事件現場に急行、証拠隠滅を計った。数百万円の募金をものにした主犯の原田と加藤は、署長から、元上役警官で精神病院に入院していた中村が、脱走したことを知らされた。中村は、記憶喪失におち入り、変態行為をする。だが、原田らは、中村の病気は彼が組織から逃げ出すための芝居だと睨んでいた。ただちに付近一帯に非常線が張られたが、駅の公衆便所に女の絞殺死体が発見された。原田と加藤が駆けつけた時、丁度中村の乗った列車が発車したところだった。すぐ車に飛び乗った原田と加藤は猛スピードで列車を追跡した。彼らはいつしか、県境を越えていた。一方、車内で、中村は坐り合せた女学生の清水まり子の若々しい肉体に惹かれてゆき、ついに抱きしめた…。
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Roman Porno from 1973.
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Tane, a female clerk of a rubber company in a corner of an industrial area facing Tokyo Bay is a quirky woman, also living on the second floor of the company warehouse.
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Nikkatsu Roman Porno
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Saeko is abnormally attached to her older sister, Yumi. When Yumi becomes engaged to Arikawa, Saeko schemes to separate the two. She seduces Arikawa who then becomes confused over his attraction to both sisters.
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The twelfth shogun, Ieyoshi, embraces Oruri day and night under the care of Fujioka, a guest attendant at the O-oku. However, Fujioka's senior, Kumoi, who recommends Oseki to him, is not amused at all. The scene between Fujioka and Kumoi was symbolic of the battle between women in the O-oku. Fujioka hears from Orui that she is pregnant and rejoices that she has nothing to fear if she bears the Shogun's child. Meanwhile, Kumoi comforts Bure, who is a lesbian, and asks Oseki to help her get a call from the shogun.
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Roman Porno from 1972.
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First of Nikkatsu's many Roman Pornos involving nurses.
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Yukie is a young woman who works at her father's flower shop. She uses her job to hide from her problems including a marriage troubled by her sexual frigidity. Her husband and her best friend engage in an affair, and Yukie goes to her father for advice on how to save her marriage.
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Yuko is an innocent high school girl who has a crush on her gym teacher. She and her friends have a sleep-over party which develops into a sexual dare-game involving eels, and a lesbian orgy. Now sexually-awakened, Yuko decides to seduce her teacher, but is raped in an elevator before she meets her teacher.
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Patronized by a gang ruling the city, Mako delinquently plays around a night club every night with her bad company. One night, a guy Hideo gets closer to her for one-night stand, and they consequently fall in love. However, Hideo is killed by the gang. Mako swears vengeance on her beloved's murderer.
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The Akiba and Shimura crime families run the streets of “K City”. With the construction of new buildings and new factories underway, the city has sprouted into a boomtown and business is good. Two of the most infamous mobs of Tokyo want a piece of the pie. As out-of-town yakuza flood the city overnight, the crime boss of the Akiba family, Tezuka (Joe Shishido), is released from prison after a five year sentence. He does not like the "change" he sees.
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Tadao Konno (Yujiro Ishihara) had been staying in Canada for 5 years since his girlfriend's death. She was killed for Gang's boss, Shiraishi. Now Tadao returned from Canada and Gang member wonder if he will do revenge for her death…
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Two Japanese men help a Vietnam war deserter escape from Japan for Sweden. They plan to fund the escape by selling LSD pills. After word of the drug deal gets spread around they find themselves fending off rival gangs.
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The disbandment of the Tanno clan left gang member Tetsu to stray from the crime family's fold. He roamed the streets as a one man band, wearing a denim jacket and long hair with sunglasses to cover his piercing eyes. Befriending a like-minded lone wolf by the name of Gebasaku, Tetsu builds a coalition against higher forces. A graphic portrayal of irrepressible anger and a friendship worth dying for.
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In 1943 Japan is facing defeat. This makes Shinkichi, a straight, selfless student-patriot, ever more restless. He can no longer stand his soft "behind-the- gun" role of munition factory worker. School-mates one after another are going to the front, where he feels he should be. The last straw is an official report of his father's death in the Battle of Attu in the Aleutian Islands. He rushes to the naval air corps training camp at Tsuchiura along with his close school-mates Naito, Yamada, Saito and Tagawa as Volunteer pilot trainees leaving his mother and sweetheart weeping and helpless.
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Kagari (Akira Kobayashi), a scout and overseer of Ginza bar hostesses, receives an urgent phone call from Sawako, a hostess at the bar Rie, and rushes to Tokyo International Airport to meet her. When he arrives she is gone. At the bar he learns that Tabuchi, a steady customer, had been quite friendly with Sawako and may know something. Tabuchi claims he knows nothing and Kagari lets the matter drop. Over time Kagari learns from Takijima, a businessman, that Sawako is in a hospital in Yokohama. Takijima explains that he found her in Singapore working as a street girl and brought her back to Japan. Sawako had lost her memory after being subjected to narcotics. Kagari swears to find the person responsible.
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A real all-star cast turns out for this modern yakuza yarn.
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Young bartender operates secret sex club as a profitable side business.
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Film from 1969.
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A unique youth masterpiece depicting the awakening of male and female sexuality with a refreshing touch of the breath of youth.
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Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) was indebted to Mitsugimoto. Sawada, a low rank yakuza with a gambling problem owed Mitsugimoto three million yen. This equation can only lead to one answer. Mitsugimoto needs to pay and Goro's coming to collect.
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Romantic action film set against the beautiful backdrop of Rio de Janeiro. Jiro Ibuki has decided to leave the world of the yakuza and live with his fiancée Reiko.
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Romance about student-nurse interns.
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The Spiders hit song made into a movie.
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A young ex-boxer has become a successful businessman, running his various enterprises with his best friend, another boxer whom he accidentally injured in a match. When the latter is found dead, he cannot believe it is suicide and decides to investigate. Sure enough, a group of gangsters is behind his death and, resenting his intrusion, try to ruin him and to pin the murder of his young friend's fiancee on him. At the last minute he shoots it out with the villains and emerges with his reputation intact.
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Kenichi and Satoru join up with three other electric music lovers to form their own band, "The Young and Fresh."
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The fictional land "Pandora" sends three (numbered) graduates of the "National Gambling University" to Japan. You should defeat the master player Kôji, control the international casino empire and use the profits to achieve world domination. But Japan's most famous left hand knows what to do.
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She'd watched them go one by one. Friend after friend. White dress after another. Yet again, Shimako was attending another wedding reception that wasn't hers. She knew the procedure: watch the bride and groom get congratulated, smile to cover up the loneliness. But she didn't want to feel like this forever. In that moment, Shimako decided that the next wedding she'd attend had to be her own.
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Place your bets! Koji Himuro (Akira Kobayashi) is a makeout artist with unparalleled gambling skills. Shortly after his return to Tokyo, he is invited to attend a reception being held at the Suvenian Embassy of Tokyo. This “reception” was an undercover gambling operation that was run by an international gambling syndicate. Up against a cardsharp by the name of Inumaru and his mistress Reiko, Koji plays a flawless game of Seven Bridge. Outraged by his loss, Inumaru orders Reiko to stalk Koji like a shadow.
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One evening, at the Marine Tower observatory, cosmetics salesman Ichiro Iki is drawn into conversation with an unfamiliar young lady Akiko. She invites Ichiro back to a hotel where they make love but part without even exchanging names. A week later, they have a second chance encounter at the observatory. This time, Ichiro is the one who pursues her. Back at the hotel, Akiko begs Ichiro to give her sister – Kyoko, a bar hostess – absolute hell. Akiko resents her sister for lecturing on chastity, while wantonly indulging in promiscuous activity. Ichiro takes an interest in Kyoko and sets out towards her bar…
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Leaving his wife in Osaka, Honda leads a double life in Tokyo – after spending the day as an elite businessman, he flirts around in the evenings. He even rents a secret apartment where he keeps record of his girl hunts in his diary, the ‘Hunter’s Diary’. One day, he finds an article in the newspaper – a murder of a young woman in his diary. A few days later, another woman from his diary is murdered. He soon finds himself in a labyrinth of fear, as women named in his diary are killed one after another...
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横浜の外国人客が多い上流ナイトクラブでは、今日もユカと呼ばれる18歳の女の子が人気を集めていた。さまざまな伝説を身のまわりに撒きちらす女、平気で男と寝て、教会にもかよう。彼女にとっては当り前の生活も、人からみれば異様にうつった。横浜のユカのアパートで、ユカがパパと呼んでいる船荷会社の社長は、初老の男だがユカにとってはパパ を幸福にしてあげたいという気持でいっぱいだ。ある日曜日、ユカがボーイフレンドの修と街を歩いていた時、ショウウィンドウをのぞいて素晴しい人形を、その娘に買ってやっている嬉しそうなパパをみた時から、ユカもそんな風にパパを喜ばせたいと思った。ユカの目的は男をよろこばすだけだったから...。
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Kenichi Horie is determined to challenge his family, the law and the nature crossing the Pacific to America in a small sailboat. Despite his careful planning many unforeseen events will test his determination.
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Jiro, a young yakuza, and Mami, a diplomat’s daughter, are two young lovers from different worlds. Having met by accident, they soon discover a new life together. But their love is ill-fated. Mami's family will not accept her choice, while leading an honest life seems like an unattainable goal for Jiro. Can there be anything else but a tragic ending?
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One day, a lone horseman rides into town with a wounded man strapped behind him. Joe, the Ace, had captured one of the bandits who had held up the armored payroll car headed for the dam construction site, takes the wounded man to the police and claims the reward offered. He is told to wait until the driver of the armored car returns to identify the bandit and goes over to the Blue Star where he is introduced to Mishima, the owner of the cabaret, who is highly respected in the town. Joe then meets Saburo, while fishing, and his lovely sister, who seem to sense the real man beneath the rough appearance and take him into their home. Word reaches Joe that the bandit he'd captured had been shot and he hurries over to the hospital.
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A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon his sister, whose engagement was broken as a result.
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At Tokyo Gakuen University, Takema, son of Tatsunosuke, chief of the Waku gang, is a freshman who wishes to prepare himself for a better life away from gang activities despite the wishes of his father who wants him to assist strengthen the gang against the Kawano group. Takema's classmate, Akiko, is the daughter of Eiko who operates a restaurant, and through her he obtains a lodging in the house of Shiu, a dancing mistress. The students enjoy their life, but most have their troubles. Sakamoto works as a laborer on the docks to help pay for his schooling, and Akiko worries over the relationship between her mother and Sakurai, a corrupt politician, suspected to be involved in graft over jet aircraft.
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Koreyoshi Kurahara’s ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for book-cooking, and his resentful but timid underling, passed over for a promotion. The marvelously moody Intimidation (Aru kyouhaku) is an elegantly stripped-down and carefully paced crime drama.
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After witnessing a murder, a married woman and a student agree not to meet and see each other out of fear of exposing their affair.
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While in vacation in a sea side house, a young man fall in love with a beautiful woman who pretends to live by herself in the sea. The fishermen of a nearby village think she is a monster, the female of a shark killed many years before, responsible for many disappearances.
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Set in an old merchant house in Kyoto, the film traces the passing of an era through the story of a parent and child.
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At about the same time as lwami, president of a Tokyo company is murdered by an unknown assailant, it happens that an urgent call has been received from an airline company's office on remote Hachijo Island for a special serum. A Cessna aircraft which has been chartered by a man named Ohashi takes off for the island with the serum piloted by Ishida. But when airborne, Ohashi, who is the murderer of lwami, holds up Ishida at gunpoint and orders him to land on a small island west of Hachijo where a ship is waiting to take him to Hong Kong...
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Former boxer Daishiro lost his wife, and his only son, Kaoru, went missing, it was a heavy blow for Daishiro. One day, Daishiro got a call from his relative Morihiko. He said he forgot the winning lottery ticket of 2 million yen at the hotel, so he wants Daishiro to go and pick it up. Morihiko used the hotel for secret meetings, so he said he couldn't go there himself because he was afraid it would become public. When Daishiro entered the hotel, the Yakuza, who learned about the lottery from the newspaper, threaten the hotel maid Noriko, and want to rob her. Daishiro helps Noriko and safely picks up the lottery, but a message arrives from his relative Seikichi from Osaka. His missing son Kaoru is said to be a boxer in Osaka. "My son... He has the blood of a boxer in him..." Daishiro is heading to Osaka in a hurry...
Director of Photography
Nobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break with his tearaway past.
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A family is slowly falling apart: the father is absent from the start, the mother a kept woman thanks to her children, the son is being cheated on by his wife, one daughter is forced to marry an older man against her will, while the other has retreated into smug moral superiority.
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Shokichi, the owner of the clothing store, lives with his daughter Hideko and plans to open an art gallery. One day, Hideko led a handsome art student, Shohei and a poor painter, Sohei. Sohei’s painting was praised by a great printer at the completion ceremony of the art gallery. Since he became successful as a painter, but he looked quite indifferent. Around the same time, Shohei’s sister brought Sohei’s pictures to the gallery and Shokichi noticed that she was a daughter of his first love.
