Documentary on Nikkatsu's Roman Porno film series, with a heavy focus on prolific director Masaru Konuma.
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京都の大学で日本文学を学んでいる“僕”。しばし町でガイジン扱いされるのにうんざりしていた彼は、盲目の女性、京子のために対面朗読の仕事を引き受ける。対面朗読をしながら、彼の顔を触る京子の指。やがてそれが愛撫に変わった時、2人の関係は深まってゆく...。
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謎の失踪を遂げた父の行方を探す女怪盗団キャッツ・アイと、彼女たちの命を狙う秘密結社との壮絶な戦いを描いたアクション。監督は「海ほおずき Ｔｈｅ Ｂｒｅａｔｈ」の林海象。北条司による同名ベストセラー・コミックを、林と土屋斗紀雄が脚色。撮影を「人間椅子」の長田勇市が担当している。主役の3姉妹にふんするのは、「花より男子(1995)」の内田有紀と映画初出演の稲森いずみ、「ＢＡＤ ＧＵＹ ＢＥＡＣＨ」の藤原紀香の3人。
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A magazine reporter gets involved in a murder case while covering a rose nursery that's developing a blue rose.
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A hard-working section chief, fast approaching retirement and beset by stress from all directions, joins a jazz band and reignites his youthful passion for the music, giving him a chance to set things right in his life.
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アダルトビデオ制作会社の社長である古賀雄一は、妻と娘がいながら、女遊びと夜遊びを繰り返していた。友人からの依頼でバラエティ番組に出演した彼は、テレビを見たという小学校の同級生から連絡を受ける。同級生の名は早苗といい、雄一は彼女と会ってさっそくホテルで関係を結んでしまった。その日から、雄一の行く先々で無言電話がかかってくるようになる。不審に思った雄一は早苗のことを興信所に調べさせるが、早苗はすでにこの世にいないことが判明。彼女は早苗の名をかたった偽物だったのだ。
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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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Sex isn't something one plans. It just happens. Yoko is a 23 year old pink collared worker. After college she is kept close with Yokoyama and Ishida, two male college friends who both harbor feelings for her. Yokoyama is straight as an arrow, yet impulsive when it comes to love. Ishida is more the outspoken type. When Yokoyama proposes to her, Yoko wonders if the old marriage myth is true. Is settling down with an 'ordinary' guy the key to a happy marriage?
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Ichijoji is a street punk who stumbles across Mari and her cat. Mari and Ichijoji immediately fall in love but are chased by both yakuza and corrupt cops.
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Two beautiful sisters (Minako Ogawa and Miyuki Matsumoto) inherit their grandfather's inn and off they go to become entrepreneurs. Once there, the women are tricked by the disgruntled hotel employees and held captive in the basement.
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Roman Porno from 1986. A man and a woman make love without knowing one another's names. Afterwards, they introduce themselves as Emi Ichinose and Haruji Kobayashi, and they begin a relationship. Emi feels empty without a man. Kobayashi has a wife and child but wants Emi's body and seeks something from her that his wife cannot provide.
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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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Roman Porno from 1985.
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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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Natsuko is witnessed carrying on an affair with her boss, Misawa, by the unmarried Chieko. However, Chieko dies by falling and is found about ten days later in the shrubbery in front of the company. It is revealed that Chieko led a flashy private life and frequented a host club. Moreover, it seems that she was having an affair with Division Chief Yamazaki.
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The singer Asami is mistakenly kidnapped by a maniac looking for her manager's daughter. A contemporary reimagining of Junichiro Tanizaki's short story Shisei a.k.a. The Tattooer (1910).
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六本木のカフェバーを経営する色男の中沢は、あるジャズ・クラブで知り合った“双子座”の美女めぐみを自宅へ誘い結ばれる。翌朝、彼はめぐみに一夜限りの関係だと告げる。その言葉を聞き悲しそうに去っていくめぐみの姿にほっとため息をつく中沢。そんなある日、彼の浮気が原因で別れた元恋人の亜希子が留学していたスペインから戻ってくる。亜希子を今でも愛しており、寄りを戻そうとする中沢。そんな彼にめぐみが執拗に付きまとい始める。めぐみに対して「俺には決めた女性がいる。それは君ではない。」と冷たくあしらい、更に手切れ金として500万円の小切手を用意する中沢。しかし、めぐみは亜希子にステンドグラスを習うという名目で近づくのだった...。
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Four female flight attendants embark on some salacious misadventures: A few go to a company singles party to cavort with some pilots, while the lovely Misako embarks on an adventure all her own after meeting a street fortune teller...
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産婦人科医の鏡美音子は、勤務する病院の女院長・琴枝と同性愛の関係。ゲイボーイたちのパーティに招待されるが、その会場に銃弾が撃ち込まれる…。一方、琴枝は医大の学長のテクニックに負け体を許してしまう。
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On her wedding day, Makiko is stabbed by a woman in wedding dress. The wound isn't serious but the attacker blows herself up and can't be identified. The attacker is thought to be an ex-girlfriend of Tsutomu, the groom. He gives two names to the police but these two are still alive. But there is still one woman in Tsutomu's mind...
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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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A pair of sisters run a barber shop and have many erotic encounters.
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Chizuko's cab driver husband becomes impotent after an accident, leading to infidelity spiced up with various kinky deviations.
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The second film in the series that depicts the relationship between a brother and sister who live in the same room and are frustrated not to cross the line.
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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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The story of lovers in "Miss Nippon" cabaret in Kabukicho, Shinjuku, where a strict, almost martial, code is followed among employees to bring the business to the top. Workers must follow the rules and a "no relations between workers" policy that's tightly enforced.
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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...
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菊島隆三の原作に松田優作を主役に据え、TVドラマとして映像化。尾形は北海道の貧しい炭坑町で生まれたが、苦労の末に一流商社に就職。仕事ぶりが評価され社長秘書となり、そのなかで社長令嬢の美千代と恋仲になる。だが娘を地方財閥の息子と結婚させようとしていた社長の怒りを買い、北海道支店への転勤を命じられてしまう。そこで、尾形は病身の社長を完全犯罪で死に追いやり、美千代と結婚して財産の完全掌握へと乗り出す…。
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デパートガールの土屋名美はある日友人からバイトを紹介され軽い気持ちで受けるが、それはビニール本のモデルだった。世に出たビニ本のせいで名美の人生の歯車は狂う。そんな名美のビニ本に魅せられた男・村木が接近してくるのを名美はけ入れ…。
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A photographer named Sawamura is jealous of his former disciple Yoshida's success and decides to take revenge on Yoshida's fiance Keiko. Based on the S&M novel by Oniroku Dan.
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A businessman has a sexual affair with a prostitute. Some thugs are trying to blackmail him and make him agree to pay a large sum of money.
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A businessman has a sexual affair with a prostitute. Some thugs are trying to blackmail him and make him agree to pay a large sum of money.
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A professor named Keisuke meets a suicidal girl and subjects her to shibari bondage and sexual abuse.Their relationship quickly become more and more intimate.The wife of professor tries to stop the sadomasochistic love affair of these two souls and as a reward is also subjected to harsh S&M training...
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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。
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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・・・。
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強姦された女性たちにその後を記事にしようと取材を続ける土屋名美は、強姦されたたためストリッパーになった蘭と、平凡な主婦となった良子を同時に取材をするが、その取材活動の最中に村木と出会う。取材にのめりこんだ名美に強姦願望が芽生えてくるが…。
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強姦された女性たちにその後を記事にしようと取材を続ける土屋名美は、強姦されたたためストリッパーになった蘭と、平凡な主婦となった良子を同時に取材をするが、その取材活動の最中に村木と出会う。取材にのめりこんだ名美に強姦願望が芽生えてくるが…。
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Yasuji Hajima runs a butcher shop. When he was younger, he was just as interested in the sex as the next man but lately he has a hard time satisfying his wife who is still oversexed at her age. The Hajimas have one son, Shuichi, who is studying to enter Tokyo University. It is after he sees his parents acting in which he considers an odious manner that he changes entirely and raises the roof in every whichever way.
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バー“青蛾”のママ、寺田律子は、暴力団の出入りに絡んで刑務所に入った夫、哲の為、組からのオトシマエを迫られ、それを返す為にラブホテルでいかがわしいショーを客に見せて金を作っていた。哲の弟分竜次と恋人の百合も一枚かんでいた。ある日、何も知らないバーの客を相手にライブショーを演じる律子を、隣の部屋からマジックミラー越に、客に混って宮原組の弁護士、神島が見ていた。そのとき、神島は、律子が相手の持っているキーホルダーの鈴の音に興奮するのに気付いた。三人はその日得た金で全てを返済するつもりだった。しかし、律子は、組に金を返しに行く途中、金を奪われてしまう。返済を延ばしてもらうように頼むが、宮原は律子に神島の女になれば許してやると条件を出すのである。哲と別れ神島の女になるくらいならと、ライブショーを選んだ律子が、ある日、百合とレスビアンショーを演じていると、突然警察がやって来た。律子を警察に引き取りに来たのは宮原と神島だった。そこで、金を奪われたことや、警察の手入れなどが二人の仕業と気付いた律子は、神島に身を委ね、それを写真に撮って脅迫しようと計画した。マゾの神島を憎しみに燃える律子は鞭をふり下し責めさいなんだ。異様な光景がカメラに収められた。三人は脅し取った金でアパートを借り、身を隠した。しかし、狭いアパートに三人の男女が寝起きすることは、亀裂を生む結果にもなった。律子と竜次の関係に嫉妬した百合が部屋を飛び出して、宮原組に見つかり、飢えたチンピラの餌食になってしまった。百合から律子の居所を聞きだした宮原は、律子を事務所の地下室に連れ込み、ロープに吊るして神島にいたぶらせるのであった。哲が殺されたことを知り悲しみと苦痛に耐える律子を神島は責めた。鈴を秘所に押し込められた律子は、欲情が体内にひろがるのを感じた。その鈴は、哲の形見のお守札についていた鈴だった。
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The story of a second rate detective asked to tail a mysterious woman who is cheating on her man.
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Toshihiko, a high school boy, hates Kozo, his father, enough to kill him. His mother had lived in terror of him and, at last, broken in spirit, she had left and her pitiful departing figure is still seared in Toshihiko's mind. Soon, Kozo marries Asako who is young and beautiful. An idea forms in Toshihiko's mind to get even with his father for the shabby way he had treated his mother. He wonders if he can do it through Asako.
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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.
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純白のウエディングドレスの明子は祝福の声の中で、幸福の絶頂…、にいるように見えた。しかし控室でレイプまがいの乱暴さで明子を求める花婿の態度は、これから暗黒の生活が始まることを意味していた。涙を拭き身支度する明子。突然、二人の男が乱入して来た。銃を突きつけ逃亡するための車を運転しろという。二人の狂犬は冬彦と春夫。賭博場を襲い現金強奪に失敗し、春夫は膝を撃たれていた。恐怖のあまり、秋子の運転は道をはずれ川へ転落してしまうが、二人は秋子を責めようとはしなかった。駅の操車場に侵入した三人は、突然動き出した貨物列車に乗り逃亡を続ける。少しずつ秋子は二人に溶け込んでいった。ウエディング姿の花嫁と、狂犬二人の奇妙な逃亡旅の始まりだった。
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Nikkatsu Films sensation Naomi Tani (FLOWER AND SNAKE) stars as a troubled ex-prostitute turned barkeep enchanted by the love of a younger man named Kenichi. After trusting a violent junkie to help with her young lover’s singing career, she is sent to prison for murder. Now known only as Prisoner 101, she spends her days in the dirty prison system full of violent guards and sexually-aggressive inmates.
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港マコの自伝『横浜ざんげ録―遊び人の世界』を、出倉宏が脚色し藤田敏八が監督したロマンポルノ。クリエーションが音楽を担当した。
十五歳で初体験し学校を辞め、十六歳で同棲相手の子供を出産したマコ。失業中の時夫と生まれたばかりの太郎を養うため、マコは横浜のスナックで働いている。しかし時夫が他の女と浮気をしたことから同棲を解消、育児が難しいため太郎を実家に預けることにした。一人になったマコは、かつての恩師である矢崎と結ばれるが、矢崎は渡米してしまう。学校に通っていたころの友人あさと再会したマコは、以前スナックで飲み逃げした市役所の職員を発見。男の家に押し入り、妻をいたぶるのだった。
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Cherry blossoms are in full bloom. It is time for college students to go on a drinking spree under the cherry tree - It's "Hanami" time! Two freshmen and a sophomore are ordered to stake out a spot for the entire pep squad. Plans are initiated from the night before; three of them have to pull an all-nighter. Once the night falls, the sky turns pitch black. Rival pep squad of the Roka College emerge from the darkness and an all-out turf war begins.
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Based on the manga of the same name by Kazuo Kamimura.
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A bar-owner named Kuroki, forlornly waits for his adulterous wife to get back from messing around with her boyfriend. She returns, but because she's been fooling around with gangsters she brings trouble with her. Kuroki gets tied up and beaten, his wife and customers get tortured and raped, and it is finally up to the mousy cuckold to set things right, Straw Dogs-style.
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The landlord of a boarding house in 1923 Tokyo, is keen on spying on the bizarre close encounters taking place beneath his roof. One day he sees a prostitute killing a customer, and decides he's found his soulmate.
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Hitomi Kozue returns as Mayumi in this final chapter of the TRUE STORY OF A WOMAN IN JAIL trilogy! Mayumi is sent to jail after brutally attacking her partner and his mistress. Sent to live in Cell 31, the women there couldn't be more different... they are very religious, sing hymns and discuss the Bible. A fight with a rival cell block starts a bloody and vicious war in the jail... one where the warden and guards seek vengeance on the women with brutal torture and sexual humiliation. When a new inmate arrives and Mayumi recognizes her, all hell breaks loose!
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Roman Porno from 1975.
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A tragicomedy that happened to three couples who switched partners, turning sex into a simple game to break off marital relations, gripped by a painful mood!
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Roman Porno from 1975.
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Roman Porno from 1975.
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When a group of young women is thrown into juvenile hall, they will soon realize how bad their lives are about to become.
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In historical times, the Shogun family employs a group of Iga ninjas to take over the Akizuki clan's lands. The Akizuki hire the Fumi ninjas, a group of female warriors who enhance their fighting ability with sexual magic such as the "white snake spell". When the Akizuki emerge victorious, Tsukinojo, the leader of the Fumi ninjas, marries Lord Akizuki.
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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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Roman Porno from 1974.
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大正時代。芸者の花清は、旦那の横井をめぐって同業の染八と相争っていたが、染八が横井の男児を生み落としたことからライバル対決に決着がつき、横井に捨てられることに。ある日、染八の家に乗り込んだ花清が赤ん坊を奪って逃げ出したところへ関東大震災が発生。そして時は流れて昭和10年代。花清は、今の旦那・小宮山のおかげで置屋の女将の座に収まり、染八から奪った子・正太郎をわが子として育てながら幸せに暮らしていた。
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A gang of no-good youths calling themselves "Piranha" terrorize a seaside community by breaking into rich folks' mansions, stealing and raping everything in sight.
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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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The movie was inspired by real life test driver Yukio Fukuzawa, who on 12 February 1969 lost control of his Toyota 7 at Fuji Speedway near Nakahinata, Japan and fatally smashed into a signpost. In the movie Kei Kiyama’s pop singer character meets Tôru Minegishi’s doomed racer when he happens along as she’s throwing her own records into the sea. From there things get even cheerier.
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While rotting away in jail, Okamoto learns of the death of his beloved sister, Natsuko. Violently assaulted by a group of U.S. military men during a drunken joyride, she was found dead by local authorities. Haunted by the tragedy, Okamoto escapes from jail to hunt down and kill those who destroyed the life of his sister. What he uncovers during his investigation is much more horrifying than he could ever imagine...
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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.
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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.
