Mari Tanaka

Are bad girls casualties of patriarchy, a necessary evil, or visionary pioneers? By tracing the concept of the bad girl in Japan as a product of specific cultural assumptions and historical settings, Bad Girls of Japan maps new roads and old detours in revealing a disorderly politics of gender. The essays explore deviancy in richly diverse media. Mountain witches, murderers, performance artists, cartoonists, schoolgirls, and shoppers gone wild are all part of the terrain.

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

This biopic is centered on New Year's Day of 1894, when Kitamura is recovering from a suicide attempt. Japan is then under the spell of fervent patriotism because the government wants to build up public support for a war with China. Kitamura's literary friends and militant comrades come to visit. They wonder why Kitamura wants to kill himself. Kitamura at first refuses to receive them, then he sits down with them and looks back on his days as a civil rights militant, his stormy love life and his ardent but destructive desire to live literature to the full.

Toda, a disillusioned journalist that was once a part of the student movement, recalls his former youth when he meets a confident young woman through his work.

Nikkatsu Roman Porno

Roman Porno from 1973.

Roman Porno from 1973.

Scantily clad female warriors battle thieves to save a small village. Director Yasuharu Hasebe crossed the Seven Samurai legends of Shichinin No Samurai with his own popular Naraneko Rokku series and dressed it up with some of the most popular softcore pinup queens of the day.

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。

Tormented by his first sexual stirrings, the teenager Isao dreams every night of his gym teacher Ikuko. He finally opens her heart but she rejects his advances. Frustrated, Isao invents all sorts of stratagies to disgust Ikuko´s fiance, a professor of chemistry in the same school. As his plan fails, he plans a radical solution...and the results turns out to be...

A suspense drama that comically depicts the intersection of love, sex, and money between men and women. One day, an affair with Taro Mishima's wife, Itsuko, and his subordinate Akizuki was discovered. Mishima blames them, but the relationship with hostess Noriko is pointed out. After all this, they divorce and each remarry. However, Mishima's carnal desire extended to a young housekeeper Kimiko. Noriko's son Takashi marries his former lover, Etsuko. They start a new life at the residence of Mishima. Two men and three women cross each other under one roof, and a storm of desire blows up.

Nikkatsu Roman Porno.

Roman Porno film depicting the great uproar that the children cause in the division of their property, even before their parents are dead, as they claw at their greed.

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.

Pinku from 1972.

Roman Porno from 1972.

Roman Porno from 1972.

Roman Porno from 1972.

Roman Porno from 1972.

Kyōko is a woman with a promiscuous past who is sexually unsatisfied with her marriage. Her frustrations lead her to have hedonistic dreams, such as her mother and grandfather having sex together. Seeking to rejuvenate her marriage, she throws a wild party. The ploy is a success.

肌寒い秋風が吹き抜ける横浜市郊外の夕暮れ。そのモーテルの一室では、結婚式を明日にひかえた美奈が、昔の恋人・尾崎と別れを惜しみ、熱い戯れをくりかえしていた。二人の狂おしいばかりの晩餐が終わった帰り道、美奈の運転するワゴンが若い男を跳ね飛ばしてしまった。同乗していた尾崎は事故にかかわるのを嫌い、いち早くその場を立ち去っていった。気を取り戻した美奈は、倒れたままの男を引きずるようにワゴンのシートへ横たえ、湖へと車を走らせた。

Takeshi Ijuin leaves for Chicago to be a cameraman, and a few years later returns to Japan. But he only learned the technique of homicide in Chicago. When he visits the graveyard with his father to pray at his mother's tomb, his father is shot by someone. Now he thirsts for revenge.