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A university professor's secret passion: a fetish for "blonde hair." His fantasies gradually escalate into reality.
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Fourteen-year old student Ayumi has leukemia and starts losing hair. She becomes depressed but receives overwhelming support from her classmates when they all shave their heads for her.
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懲役を終えた組幹部を迎えに行った鋼健介は、襲撃に巻き込まれて死亡した。だが彼は、半身を鋼鉄で包まれたサイボーグ・フルメタル極道として復活する。
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Traveling chef Ryuji is called back to Tokyo to help save his late teacher’s restaurant. With the help of his close friend Kinu, Ryuji must complete the training of Wataru — the apprentice chosen by his late teacher to become the next master chef — in the art of culinary excellence and running a successful business.
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The third hit series of a gangster movie that depicts a fateful confrontation between a man stigmatized for killing a gangster and confronting an enemy who has fitted himself. The stage will be moved to Kyushu, and the escalated battle between yakuza will unfold.
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A small group of men stigmatized for killing the gang leader tries to survive the group and take revenge on the man who killed them, while being involved in the conflict between the two major powers of Kanto and Kansai. The second movie of the live action adaptation series.
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Based on the comic written by Masao Yajima and illustrated by Kenshi Hirokane
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Based on the comic written by Masao Yajima and illustrated by Kenshi Hirokane.
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Based on the comic written by Masao Yajima and illustrated by Kenshi Hirokane.
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Looks at the lives of Chinese people in Japan.
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The love between a young man and an older woman.
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A young boy, Atsu, grows up along the banks of the Shimanto River in rural southern Shikoku. He comes to grips with the unfairness of life and the emotional pain involved in the loss of innocence. The film is based on an autobiographical novel written by Kyuzo Sasayama.
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Miho and Toshio, putting their children and household at stake, duel for control in their degrading, middle-aged marriage.
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昭和20年。戦争による被害が広がる中、内閣は霊能力者・辰宮雪子の能力により連合軍の幹部たちを呪い殺すための計画を進行していた。しかし、人々の怨みを受け復活を果した魔人・加藤保憲が再び帝都を破滅に導くために活動を開始する。
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A woman living alone is visited by her ex-husband. At the same time a young couple who are about to break up get trapped in the town as public transport is cut off.
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In the winter of 1945, Sakura the elephant gave birth to a baby elephant at Tokyo Fujimi Zoo under the watchful eye of the zookeeper Shota Tanabe. Around the same time, Shota's wife, Setsuko, also gave birth to a son. Hanako, the baby elephant, grows up while deepening her bonds with elementary school students who love zoos. However, as Japan enters the Pacific War, the military orders the animals in the zoos of five major cities to be killed.
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In the desert of Egypt, Kurata, the CEO of the Japanese corporation Tokokaihatsu, is killed by a sniper. After the news reaches Japan, the CEO's lawyer, Yamamoto, receives a visit from two men that attempt to steal the deceased CEO's will. This is witnessed by two detectives, Tsuzuki and Ōnuki, but they fail to catch the perps. Yamamoto hands the detectives a set of keys before he stops breathing. Tsuzuki and Ōnuki now have to investigate Kurata's murder...
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A film about the substantial population of Koreans living in Japan, and the love affair between Kayako, a Japanese girl, and Im, a Korean.
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Nakata, an author, resides utilizing the painful memory regarding the death of his partner, whoever life had been cut short a few many years earlier. Ended up being it a crash or ended up being it suicide? Doubt persists. In order to escape his guilty Nakata, conscience gives up on marriage and fatherhood. Hence freed, he embarks on an obsessive intimate records and jeorney his activities in a book, "The Dark Room". A philisophical essay on sexuality, reproduction and the fate of mankind.
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A young woman who escaped from prison is eventually captured and brought back. The evil warden decides to make her a pet project and tries to break her down with torture, gang rape and by turning her friends against her.
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Kato is a small time TV producer. He has a wife Masako, and a young son Taro. Kato also has a friend Yamazaki who he knew since college. Yamazaki has a girl friend Riko who lives with her younger sister Yuko who's an actress. Yamazaki is a lyric writer/womanizer and he starts to have an affair with Masako, but he's still going out with Riko.
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Adaptation of Shiro Ozaki's novel.
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A High Class Call Girl is revisited by her ex lover who she thought died 5 years prior.
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美容院ミサの経営者美沙はふとしたことから一平というカメラマンと知り合った。一平はビニ本のSMカメラマンだが、美沙はそれを知らなかった。ある日、一平は自分のアパートで少女・季里子をモデルに緊縛写真を撮影していた。そこへ、美沙がやって来た。奥の部屋へ季理子を閉じこめると、一平は美沙を迎え入れ、二人は体を重ねた。その時、尿意をもよおした季里子が這い出て来た。驚愕した美沙は絶叫を上げ部屋を飛び出ていく。数日後、ショッピング中の美沙を見つけた一平は「あなたを縛りたい」とささやく。その場は逃げた美沙だが、一平の言葉が忘れられない。その頃、「健康な毎日で退屈」と言う沙貴という客の話に、美沙は一平を訪ねる決心をする。沙貴はSM愛好家の夫に去られたばかりだった。その夕方、美沙は、雄一というチンピラに強姦され、セット台に縛り付けられた。雄一は、恋人が一平の緊縛写真のモデルにされたことを恨み、美沙を一平の恋人と間違えて襲ったのだ。数分後、街を車で走る沙貴は、一平を見付け、後を追った。一平は沙貴の夫だった。美沙の店に追げ込んだ一平は、そこで、股間を開いてセット台に縛られた美沙を見つけ、このときとばかりに責めたてた。窓の外では、二人の行為を沙貴が見つめている。その日から、美沙は一平の部屋を訪れ、倒錯的な愛戯に酔うのだった。一方、かつての夫と美沙の仲を知った沙貴は、美沙を酔わせ、一平のアパートを聞きだした。翌日、一平の部屋を訪ねた美沙は、緊縛された沙貴が一平のファック責めにあっている現場を目撃した。沙貴へのジェラシーから、美沙も裸になって絡んでいく。三人入り乱れての異様なプレイが終ると、二人の女はなじりあった。辟易した一平はそっと部屋を抜け出した。やがて、二人の女に奇妙な親しみが生まれ、股間をまさぐり合いながらのぼりつめていく。その頃、一平が雄一たちにつかまり、撲殺されたことも、二人は知るよしもなかった。
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A young man living on growing tomatoes in a greenhouse in a residential area. Tomato cultivation is as doomed as his personal life where he tries to keep alive his romance with the eccentric Kaede and parents selected fiancee Ayako.
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1981 Nikkatsu Roman Porno film. The wife of a prominent businessman works as a late-night radio personality. One night on her way to the radio station, she is raped by a motorcycle gang without knowing the reason...
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ゴローとさち乃との出会いは第三京浜だった。白いムスタングから放り出されたさち乃を助けたのが、バイクで走っていたゴローだったのだ。二人は同棲を始める。またムスタングを運転していた中年の男も、奇妙な同棲生活を送っていた。さち乃はクイーンエリザベスという名のスナックで働き始める。ゴローは喧嘩をしてバイトを辞めてしまう。ゴローが家を出たため、さち乃は中年の男と会うことにする。
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Two boys, whose parents ply their trade by the mouth of a muddy river in Osaka, become close friends.
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Nikkatsu Roman Porno
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A couple originally from Okinawa run an inexpensive restaurant in Kobe, with their grade-school daughter, Fuuchan. The movie depicts the warm interaction between her and adults that grew up with the rough history of Okinawa and discrimination from the mainland. Shots partly on location at beach of Itoman, Yogi Park and Hateruma Island. This is the movie version of the well-known novel by Kenjiro Haitani.
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The story of a noble femme fatale in 1941 in Japan.
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Nikkatsu Roman Porno
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Miyashita plays an office clerk who is having an affair with her married boss. Since he refuses to leave his wife, Miyashita and another couple plan to kidnap his daughter to collect a ransom.
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森本英介は、五年間も東京で浪人暮しをしており、郷里で病院を経営する父とは、裏口入学のことでモメて以来、音信がない。ある夜、鎌倉で、英介は暴走族のリーダーと喧嘩になり、海に潜って、先に顔を上げた方が敗けという勝負をした。翌日、英介は予備校で有島佳という女の子に声をかけられる。彼女は昨夜の一部始終を見ており、一緒にいた桑田敦夫と、英介の真似をして、心中と間違えられたという。いきなり話しかけられてとまどう英介は、ホテルのボーイをしながら予備校に通っていることを彼女に話す。佳は、この夏、釧路から夏期講習を受けるために上京し、姉・悠のところに居候していた。桑田は同じ予備校に通う二浪の男だ。ところで、佳は心中ごっこのとき、死と隣り合わせの瞬間に、このうえもない喜悦を感じたことで英介に興味を持ったのだ。そして、佳と桑田は英介のバイトするホテルで心中未遂を起こしてしまう。二人の収容されている病院に見舞いに行った英介は、そこで、佳の姉の悠と出会う。悠は小学校の給食をつくる仕事をしている。暫くして、悠は、ホテルの一件以来、自分のところから離れていた佳に、ロタ島行きのキップを渡してくれと英介に話す。それは、桑田から佳を離そうとする悠の心づかいだった。しかし、佳はキップを受け取ろうとせず、英介は悠と一緒にロタ島に行った。二人は旅を満喫する。旅から帰り、ホテルでバイトをしていた英介は、学会で上京していた父と出会った。父は学会の開かれる箱根のホテルで話し合おうと話すが、英介は憎しみしか覚えなかった。その頃、経済的に行きづまった佳と桑田が、英介に助けを求めてきた。英介は、二人を父の名で、箱根のホテルに泊まらせることにした。翌日、英介は箱根の警察から連絡を受けた。箱根のホテルにいた佳と桑田の死の知らせであった。心中ごっこが本当の心中になるとは……。鋭い衝撃が英介を襲った。夏の終り、鎌倉の海に英介と悠の姿があった。二人は佳と桑田の行為を語りながら、自分たちが、別々の道を歩みはじめたことを感じていた。そして今、英介は自分のとまどいの季節が終ったことを意識しながら……。
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Saeko had an affair with Kuno, a photographer, but since the car they were riding in had an accident, she had withdrawn into a villa in Shonan. One day, Saeko gets to know Shinji, who drives in front of the villa every day.
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Nikkatsu Roman Porno
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Rena and Yuko, the two sexually-adventurous high school girl friends from Pink Tush Girl (1978) get part-time jobs at a hostess bar in order to earn money for an abortion for Yuko. At the end of the school year the two must part as Yuko prepares to depart for acting school in Hokkaido, and Rena gets ready for college.
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Yuki picks up a gay hitchhiker after leaving her husband's house following an argument. When the hitchhiker discovers his boyfriend having sex with a woman, he decides to keep traveling with Yuki. They reach a diner, which is filled with scummy Deliverance rejects who proceed to rape and torture them.
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Factory worker Osamu (Akira Sakai) has been despondent ever since he saw his girlfriend getting gang-raped. He has a difficult time thinking of anything else. Meanwhile, his boss asks him for a favor. Apparently, the bossman’s son is too-o-o serious about a girlfriend, Yuki (Minako Mizushima). The boss wants the relationship destroyed and asks Osamu to arrange an “unforgettable situation.” Osamu and his friends stalk the lovers to a secluded vacation house where rape delirium erupts (although Osamu isn’t capable of participating). A bit later the boss and two women show up, presumably to check on the results. But Osamu’s gang is completely unhinged from the assault and they attack the newcomers, turning the place into a sexual hell.
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Nikkatsu Roman Porno
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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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「セックスに病める方は私にお任せ!」とばかり、キュートでセクシーなカワイコちゃん肉体調教師が登場。インポ、変態、倦怠期の夫婦相手に実践指導するという、痛烈爆笑コメディポルノ。出演は、キュートな調教師に小悪魔的な艶技でファンを魅了する渚りな。欲求不満の主婦に中島葵が扮し、熟れた肉体の健在ぶりを披露するほか、橘雪子が大胆なふぁっくを体当たりで見せてくれます。男優陣は、島村謙治、堀礼文、益富信孝のベテラン揃い。作品ごとにイキな演出で話題を呼ぶ白井信明監督極め付きの作品です。
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Roman Porno from 1978. Director Toshiya Fujita and screenwriter Kaneto Shindo adapted Pierre Choderlos de Laclos' 18th-century epistolary novel 'Les Liaisons dangereuses' to a contemporary setting. An abominable and burning jealousy and an evil relationship between a man and a woman unfold in the nature of a game. Eventually, jealousy's ripples deeply hurt the true love of a chaste married woman.
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A policewoman is attacked, handcuffed and raped while on night patrol. Rather than report the incident, she determines to find and punish the rapist herself.
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Hisako Ōuchi (Naomi Tani) is the sexually-frustrated wife of the older art academy Professor Ōuchi (Minoru Ōkochi). Ōuchi is a repressed conservative who disdains modern art, and expels Kazuo Kobayashi (Tachiki Bessho), a student who specializes in SM painting. Hisako becomes obsessed with the expelled student, and has an affair with him. Kazuo and Hisako retire to a cabin in the countryside where they indulge in SM activities.
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This is a story of love between a society girl and a yakuza boy. Mami lives an ordinary life in Tokyo, being with her friends and studying. Her biggest interest is ladies hats. She is rather well off, as her father is the ambassador of Japan in Spain. One day when she is out driving, she is attacked by a group of yakuza, but is saved by the honorable yakuza Jiro. This will change her life forever.
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妹・きっこからの電話が鳴っていた。しかし、姉の八重子、夫の光夫は、右手に出刃包丁、左手に拳銃を待った男におどかされていた。そして、夫・光夫の見ている前で、妻・八重子は犯されてしまった。何もしらないで帰って来たきっこは、二人の様子から、夫婦げんかでもしたものと思う。きっこは、友人・ミコといつも一緒。二人で街を歩いていると、光夫が、ピンク映画館に入っていく姿を見る。光夫は、自分のやるせない気持ちをいま見た映画の暴行シーンそっくりにやってみせるのであった。二人は、ディスコQでジミーという米兵と知り合う。その夜ミコが帰ってこないという連絡が入った。ミコは、ジミーに薬をのまされホテルへ連れこまれたが、何もおこらず、ジミーはほんとうにミコを愛しているのであった。何日か経って、きっこの姉夫婦にも、ミコとジミーの間にも平和がよみがえった。ある夜、ガラスの破れる音で目をさましたきっこ。下では例の男が、またしても、光夫の前で八重子を犯していた。男は行為が終ると二度と来ないと言って走り去った。姉夫婦は、再び襲った悪魔により、完全に破局へと。姉夫婦は別れてしまった。きっこは、ディスコQへ勤め、ミコはいつもカウンターにいた。そして、ミコの横に一人の男がすわった。あの男だ。きっこの心にむらむらと復讐心が燃え上がり、ミコに助けを貸りるのであった。
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Satirizing the Roman Porno genre, and the Office Lady Journal series in particular. Naomi Tani and Yuko Katagiri appear as themselves in the film, making fun of their on-screen personae.
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Based on the manga of the same name by Kazuo Kamimura.
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Roman Porno from 1976.
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A film that portrays the youth and fragile love of a transportation worker in Tokyo.
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Roman Porno from 1976.
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Roman Porno from 1976.
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Nikkatsu Roman Porno
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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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Roman Porno from 1975.
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Roman Porno from 1975.
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When the boss of a yakuza clan in 1920s Osaka is assassinated, Oryu, his mistress, vows revenge. Her search for the killer takes her out of the city. The old boss' son proves a poor leader, only interested in Omitsu, his high-class girlfriend. Yajima, the second-in-command, is taking advantage of the situation to accumulate power for himself...
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Roman Porno from 1975.
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Roman Porno from 1975.
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Roman Porno from 1975.
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A young woman fails her university entrance exam and starts shoplifting.
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十九歳のトメは、ドヤ街の近くで客をひく売春婦である。トメの弟の実夫は生まれながらの知的障害者で、年中、家でゴロゴロしている。母よねは、四十歳を過ぎた現在でも売春婦をやっているが、あふれることか多い。小料理屋「おそめ」では裏二階で、客に女を抱かせているが、トメに辞められて以来、収入が減ってしまったために、地廻りで“大人のオモチャ屋”をまかされている浅見に頼んで、トメに喝しをかけるが失敗してしまう。ある日、トメは手配写真の中にあった強盗殺人の顔にそっくりの男、寺坂に会って以来、彼に興味をもった。寺坂と同じボロ・アパートの住人、斉藤と文江は共稼ぎだが、正式の夫婦ではない。斉藤は会社の金を使い込んでしまった。思い余った文江は浅見に頼んで「おそめ」で働くことにした。銀二はよねの情夫で時折りトメの家にやって来る。ある日銀二は、よねの留守にやって来て、トメに金を払い二人は寝た。数日後、これがバレて母娘喧嘩になるが、後の祭り。ところが数日後、連れこみ旅館からの連絡で「年増はアカン、もっと若い娘」ということでトメが行ったが、そこにいた年増というのがよねだった。収まらないのはよねで、眼を吊り上げて旅館を飛び出し、焼酎をガブ飲みして大暴れ。数日後、久しぶりに家に帰ったトメは、よねがいるので、一瞬ギクリとするが、よねは弱々しい声で言うのだった。「お前に頼むしかないんや、どないにもならへん。堕ろそうと思ってるうちに、もう五ヵ月になってしまっとんのや」「うちらみたいに生んだらエーヤンか、そんなアホなこと知らんでェ」「お前らも生むんじゃなかった。金がないばっかりに」「生んで貰って迷惑しとんのは、こっちゃでェ!実夫、よう聞いときィ」「なンやてェ! このド阿呆!」「人でなしは生まれたときからや」……。トメはプイと外へ出ると、いつものように客ひきに精を出すのだった。
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Shizuka is the aristocratic wife of the president of a large company. When she wants to divorce her domineering husband, he orders his employee Yoshi, the son of an adult toy store owner, to train his wife to become sexually submissive.
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About a young man who literally bumps into a prostitute who lives with and looks after her wheelchair-confined brother.
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Roman Porno from 1973.
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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.
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Roman Porno from 1973.
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Roman Porno from 1973.
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Nikkatsu Roman Porno
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Roman Porno from 1973.
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Monk Seigen saves Misako the daughter of an area Yakuza boss from some tough guys. The two become a couple and find themselves being pursued by some criminals. Seigen plunges deeper into a life of crime and sin.
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A Nikkatsu-produced Roman porno filmed in Sweden.
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Nikkatsu Roman Porno
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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.
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A department store girl is robbed of her cash register by a boy, but for some reason she cannot forget the boy's mysterious eyes, and time passes. One day, she discovers the eyes by chance, and relentlessly pursues the boy.
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Roman Porno from 1972.
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Kiyomi, a popular hostess at a bar in Shinjuku, has a traumatic childhood that makes her only sensitive to sexual intercourse with women. One day, the girl she loved as a junior hostess betrayed her and slept with her man. Uncomfortable with men, Kiyomi "swaps places" during sex with her new girlfriend, a trans woman Kaoru.
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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.
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Oman travel from Shanghai to Japan in search of her mother, only to be betrayed by her companion and sold to a brothel, where she becomes a geisha and gambler.
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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.
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The directorial debut of Masaru Konuma, penned by Keiichi Ozawa using the pseudonym "Fuyuhiko Hagi". Masako is a journalist, and she is raped while researching a story. The rape causes her to develop amnesia, so her brother devises a novel way to get her memory back -- he has her boyfriend rape her again. It doesn't work, so the brother and boyfriend do more research, discovering that Masako was raped by an African-American soldier. As might be expected, they then hire a black GI to rape the poor girl yet a third time...
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都内近郊の団地。笠井律子(白川和子)は単調な生活と夫とのセックスに不満を覚えていた。ある朝、夫を会社に送りだすと団地に住む陽子がこけしをかたどったバイブレーターを持って訪ねてくる。こけしを渡そうとする陽子に律子は恥じらい、受けとるのを拒む。その後、一人になった律子はタンスの上のこけすに気がつく。陽子が密かに置いていったのだ。律子はそれを手に取り、自慰に耽った。その時、旧友・桐村から電話がかかってくる。律子は夫に嘘をついて桐村と会い、酒に酔ってホテルへと流れた。彼女は桐村とのセックスに夫以上の快楽を感じた。後日、律子は陽子から儲け話として売春を誘われる。陽子は律子と桐村が密会している写真を差し出し強請する。そして。律子はコールガールの生活に足を踏み入れることになる・・・。 ロマンポルノ第一弾を飾る記念碑的作品
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Young man returns from prison and sets out to destroy the gang that killed his friends and boss of his former gang.
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Sex games by students at a junior high school are exposed by the principal and teachers, but the tables are turned in favor of the students.
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Based on the comic by George Akiyama
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Wild young people kidnap a wealthy woman and she becomes attracted to one of them. When she tells the man that she is the mistress of a religious leader, he and his posse make plans to rob her partner.
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Chie (Sanae Ōhori), newly arrived in Tokyo, saves her friend from school, Mari (Annu Mari), from a suicide attempt. The two girls become close, eventually leading to a lesbian relationship. Their affair drifts into sadism and involvement with a bizarre sex cult, resulting in the deaths of the two lovers.
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Tsutomu Yoshioka, a Tokyo office worker, is enaged to Mariko, the niece of his company's president. But Yoshioka has a crisis of consence when he remembers his former love Mitsu, a rural girl whom he met and later left while in college. Shimako, a former friend, persuades Yoshioka to meet with Mitsu while she plots to blackmail Yoshioka by photographing the meeting to break up Mariko and Yoshioka.
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Film from 1967.
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Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society, and he uses the money to support his landlady, Haru, and her family. From time to time, Haru shares her bed with Subu, though she believes her dead husband, reincarnated as a carp, disapproves. Director Shohei Imamura has always delighted in the kinky exploits of lowlifes, and in this 1966 classic, he finds subversive humor in the bizarre dynamics of Haru, her Oedipal son, and her daughter, the true object of her pornographer-boyfriend’s obsession. Imamura’s comic treatment of such taboos as voyeurism and incest sparked controversy when the film was released, but The Pornographers has outlasted its critics, and now seems frankly ahead of its time.