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邦画界の巨匠・渡辺護×希代の天才脚本家・大和屋竺のコンビによる仁侠時代劇の傑作!!!!!! 女侠客・弁天のお加代の活躍を描いた『男ごろし極悪弁天』(70)の続編。渡辺護は脚本を大和屋竺に依頼し、打ち合わせの席で伊藤大輔や山中貞雄の映画について熱く語ったという。その時代劇への思いの強さに応えて、大和屋は純度の高い娯楽活劇を書いた。 物語は、弁天の刺青のお加代(香取環)と吉祥天の刺青のセイガク(国分二郎)の運命の恋を中心に展開する。遠く離れていても、セイガクはお加代がヤクザと戦うのを背の刺青で感知し、敵の親分のもとへ導くために尺八を吹く。すると、お加代も刺青で尺八の音を聞き取り、天を仰いでふっと微笑む。刺青を介して二つの魂が交感する奇跡を渡辺は鍛えあげた演出力で見事に映像化している。 渡辺護はこの会心の作についてこう語っている。「おれは『尺八弁天』を撮り終えたくなかったんだ……
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A brother and sister live as outcasts from their hamlet due to a belief that mental illness runs in their family. A group of villagers plot to steal their property by beating and hanging the brother and gang-raping the sister. Believing the brother to be dead, scheming to kill the sister, and making both deaths look like accidents... unbeknownst to them, the brother survives and proceeds on a mission to slaughter those responsible in the hamlet.
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A wife with a fertility problem wants to use her sister's womb to have children, but her sister is enjoying her boyfriend and sexual freedom. The husband is a commanding chauvinist and this soon turns out to be an uninteresting study on authority, patriarchy and conservatism vs. free love and youth culture.
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Young slacker couple accidentially kills a friend. They burn his body and hang out on a beach.
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Study about a young disturbed man, who rapes and kills women and collects their bodies in a cave. A work based on the case of Yoshio Kodaira, a serial rape murder case shortly after the war.
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Yuko has a rendezvous with her old boyfriend who has just returned to Tokyo. Blackmailers with evidence of this transgression force Yuko to work as a call girl to pay them. Yuko becomes the client of a foreigner who is in the employ of her husband, a prominent businessman.
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A gynecologist attempts to rid the world of sexual problems by separating sex on the one hand and reproduction, which he feels should be left to artificial wombs.
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A man keeps his girlfriend tied up in his small apartment and tortures her. She is undressed, subjected to various types of bondage, whipped, and tortured with a razor blade.
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Pinku from 1965.
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Pinku from 1965.
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A doctor, gynecologist, discover the corpse of his wife. His nurse advises to him to declare her death a simple heart attack, to clear himself without the slightest doubt. He refuses and calls the police force there. The interrogation of the doctor, then other witnesses, slowly reveals the truth of her demise…
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In a housing complex, a college prep student is spying on his neighbor, a former peace activist, who now leads an ordinary life as a housewife, having a secret affair with an ex-lover.
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16歳の立子は、社長の父・剛造の財産目当ての後妻・文枝の本性を見抜き父に離婚を勧めるが、文枝と結託する早田の策略で拉致され処女を奪われる。変わり果てた娘を憐み自殺した父の葬儀を終えた立子は、姿を消す。ピンク映画界の巨匠と言われた渡辺護のデビュー作にして自他ともに認める最高傑作。長らくフィルムが行方不明だったが監督没後に16mmフィルム短縮版の上映用プリントが発見された。
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To save her husband and child from drowning a woman seeks help in a village nearby.
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LEAD TOMBSTONE tracks the progress of a young sociopathic rake who had, immediately post-WW2, rescued his country farmer mother from rape by stabbing the offending American soldier in the back with a pitchfork. Once grown, the boy continues his violent life as a hoodlum on the run, repaying an outlaw couple who have sheltered him by raping the wife, then, at his boss’s behest, murdering the husband. He’s also not above strangling a girl in her bathtub for kicks. The one spot of normalcy in his life is his shop girl girlfriend, an innocent who, once she discovers his other life, confronts his boss… (from OUTLAW MASTERS OF JAPANESE CINEMA by Chris D)
