Isao Okishima

Having worked in a wide range of fields from children's TV animation scripts to 'pink' films, independent auteur Okishima Isao directs and stars in this documentary. Upon hearing that the walkway along the Tamagawa Aqueduct, one of his favorite spots, was going to be closed to make way for a new road, he gathered his crew to document the scenery. Okishima gives accounts of various painters, writers, and manga artists, as well as his personal take on Saigyo, the traveling poet and Buddhist priest of the late Heian Period.

The story centers around the communication between a man who abruptly appears in a world 10,000 years in the future and a boy who lives in that world.

The story centers around the communication between a man who abruptly appears in a world 10,000 years in the future and a boy who lives in that world.

Sakura and Kenzo are married. Both think they can live a happy marriage, despite the fact that she cannot have children and he does not want to give up her relationship with her lover Yoko.

The lustful desires of a bourgeois family for a "meeting".

The lustful desires of a bourgeois family for a "meeting".

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.

Young slacker couple accidentially kills a friend. They burn his body and hang out on a beach.

Young slacker couple accidentially kills a friend. They burn his body and hang out on a beach.

A man leaves his family in Tokyo to travel and engage in various sexual escapades. When he returns home he finds out that his wife is starring in Imamura’s documentary about her search for her missing husband.

A man leaves his family in Tokyo to travel and engage in various sexual escapades. When he returns home he finds out that his wife is starring in Imamura’s documentary about her search for her missing husband.

Mixing memory and dreams, this film centers on a man who becomes lost within the Möbius strip of his own consciousness.

日本暴行暗黒史シリーズの第1作。東京。強姦事件を捜査する刑事は、犯人の男が自分と同郷であり、殺人、強姦、近親相姦・・・といった呪われた同じ血を引き継ぐ人間だと知る。明治、大正、昭和そして現代と時代を越えて描かれる陰惨な黒い血の連鎖の物語が始まる。

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.

地方都市の銀行に勤める松谷静雄は、土地の有力者・橋本伝蔵の娘・ゆみ子と婚約する。静雄の美しい母・静香は、父・高雄が若くして亡くなった後、1人で静雄を育てたのだが、若かりし母の周辺には絶えず橋本伝蔵の影が漂っていた。その記憶に苦しむ静雄は、ゆみ子との結婚が迫るなか、2人が異母兄弟ではないかと疑う・・・。地方都市の銀行に勤める松谷静雄は、土地の有力者・橋本伝蔵の娘・ゆみ子と婚約する。静雄の美しい母・静香は、父・高雄が若くして亡くなった後、1人で静雄を育てたのだが、若かりし母の周辺には絶えず橋本伝蔵の影が漂っていた。その記憶に苦しむ静雄は、ゆみ子との結婚が迫るなか、2人が異母兄弟ではないかと疑う・・・。