Setsuko Ogawa

東京生まれ東京育ちの絵里は、ストレスが溜まる都会での生活を抜け出して、地方の水辺の街でヴァカンスを過ごすことに。亡くなった祖母の古民家で暮らす1週間の中で、絵里はその街で生きている人々と交流する。建築家の従兄、そのフィアンセ、大学生の従妹、靴職人、古墳研究者、バックパッカーなど、一癖ある人ばかり。そんな出会いと祖母の遺したものたちが絵里を少しだけ変えていく――

A documentary compilation that shows various clips from the Roman Porno series of movies from 1971 to 1988.

Roman Porno from 1974.

Since the arrival of the Black Ships, the Tokugawa Shogunate's dream of peace has been shattered, and the succession problem of the ailing Shogun Iesada has become a headache. At the same time, Tamamo, a prostitute in Yoshiwara, is dismissed from her position at the behest of a high-ranking noble family who has come on a secret mission.

Drama that centers around a bath house during school break.

Roman Porno from 1973.

Akiko is a housewife who is bored with her relationship. She lives an adulterous passion with a colleague of her husband, decides to follow him to Hong Kong where he has just been transferred. Akiko's husband goes out looking for them, without success. Desperate, he lets himself be dragged into the underworld of the city by a mysterious Sino-Japanese mongrel who plunges him into drugs and pimping. Until the day he finally learns the terrible truth about his unfaithful wife.

Roman Porno from 1973

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In feudal Japan, women are vulnerable, in need of protection, and capable of deception. Jokichi of Mikogami, a drifter, has not yet fully revenged the death of his wife and son. He searches for Kunisada Chuji, who in turn has hired the knife-throwing Windmill Kobunji to kill him. Kobunji and Jokichi meet in the winter, near Sasago Pass, when both have rescued women: Jokichi has saved the lute-playing Oyae whose clan and whose lover want her dead; Kobunji has rescued Oharu, a well-born woman married to an innkeeper. Is this rescue a whim or something deeper? And why does Jokichi become the consumptive Kobunji's protector? What ultimately will Jokichi do about Oyae?

Roman Porno from 1973.

Roman Porno from 1973.

Roman Porno from 1973.

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徳川八代将軍・吉宗の時代。ある日、大奥お年寄・藤尾宛へ、紋之助という役者の入ったつづらが届けられた。早速大目付・矢野伝八郎の取調べが始まり、藤尾には身の覚えがないことであるが、御用屋敷にお預け、藤尾に仕えるおこうは江戸城追放の処分となった。そして藤尾の後任には竹川が抜擢され、竹川は自分の下で働くお静に吉宗の伽を勤めさすようにした。一方、藤尾の下にいたおるいとおせちは、この度の一件で誰が藤尾を陥し入れようと計ったのか突きとめようと苦心していた。数日後、おこうが大奥の入口を警護する成島伊助から紋之助の相手をしていたのは「左の内股に大きなほくろのある女中」ということを聞き出した。その情報はおるいとおせへ早速知らせた。ある日、諸国大名より献上の美女くらべが行われ、その中で吉宗は金髪娘サリーを大そう気に入り、毎晩のように可愛いがった。ところがサリーの世話役をしていたおちせが吉宗の眼にとまってしまった。おちせには信次郎という婚約者がいたが、吉宗は許さず、半ば強引におちせを伽へと招いた。ところが吉宗がおちせの股にあるホクロを見付けると、お静にも同じところにホクロがあると言った。おちせには真相の全てが解った。藤尾の名を限っ騙ったのはお静で、竹川と矢野が仕組んだことだったのである。尚もおちせが驚いたことにサリーは老中から藤尾の一件の調査の為に大奥に送りこまれたのであった。やがて藤尾は大奥へ戻り、おちせと新次郎は目出たく所帯をもつことになったのである。

Roman Porno from 1972.

The sixth year of Hōei. In the sixth year of the reign of Tokugawa Ienobu (Hiroyuki Mikawa), the sixth shogun, Kayo (Yumi Nakano), a maid in the O-oku (inner sanctum) of Edo Castle, was beaten. The incident is buried in the dark, and the closet where Kayo was beaten becomes an "unopened room. One day, after four years had passed, Echizen no Mori (Toshihiko Oda), on a hawking trip with Ienobu, presented Ienobu with a beautiful tattoo of Oma (Maya Kitami) on his back. Ienobu is overjoyed and becomes completely captivated by O-Man's body...

Based on a traditional Japanese ghost story, the movie follows a man who falls deeply in love with a mysterious woman, only to find she belongs to the world of the dead.

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.

Depicting female karma and sexual sorrow in the midst of revenge and immorality, a woman betrayed by her lover plans to take revenge on him by seducing his only son and dragging him into a sensual trap, but before long she too is writhing in delight and falling in love with him.

Oshichi (Setsuko Ogawa), the daughter of a green grocer, is only seventeen years old but is known as one of the most beautiful girls in Edo. She is betrothed to Sakubei (Tatsuya Hamaguchi) but does not love him. One day, the whole city is flooded by one of the worst rain storm in its history. Oshichi, and her parents are given shelter at a temple where she meets Kichisaburo (Ryuji Mori), a young priest. It is love at first sight for both of them. The storm finally abates. Oshichi's parents decide to return to their home on the following day. That night, Oshichi gladly gives herself to Kichisaburo but they are found by her mother who warns them never to divulge their secret. Learning that her plan to move up the date of her marriage to the rich pawnbroker's son, Oshichi feels that she can never be united with Kichisaburo unless she takes things into her own hands.

Parody tale of notorious Edo-period Robin Hood named Nezumi Kozo (Rat Man), a thief who robs from the rich and showers the money on the poor. In this entry, he's also a drunkard who sometimes forgets why he's broken into the house in the first place. This is especially true if there's a pretty girl to be seduced.

Osono and Eisuke would like to get married but with her up to her neck in debt due to her late father's illness and him trying to raise the funds to start a business, they can't afford to do so. Osono agrees to work as a geisha and eventually is tricked into becoming a businessman's mistress, all because she wants to help her lover. The businessman, in turn, is actually only interested in training her so he can hand her over to a palace official in exchange for a trade agreement...

The wife of a struggling artist is raped and begins painting a series of erotic images in an attempt to exorcise her demons. However the men in her paintings all have the same face as her rapist, and as her work becomes more popular the man begins to take on folk-hero status...

時の将軍徳川家斉の大奥女中に上った生娘が、上様の御添寝役をおおせつかり、次第に女として成長していく中で、上様からも声もかからないお年寄りに、レズの味を教えられながらも、恋仲だった町侍との慕情が忘れられず駆落ちする。