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After an American helicopter crashes into a classroom in Okinawa International University, student Ryuichi is compelled to write a report on a similar accident 52 years ago, in 1959, when an American jet fighter crashed into his grandfather's elementary school. He also plans to hold a peace concert.
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Por que Genghis Khan foi o único homem capaz de criar o maior império da história? O filme desvenda o mistério do grande conquistador muito além dos diversos mitos que ainda o envolvem. Qual o segredo de seu nascimento? Como ele foi capaz de criar o maior império do mundo? Qual era o seu objetivo ao continuar sua busca pela dominação do mundo depois de ter realizado seu sonho de unificar sua terra? A chave para esses mistérios se esconde no drama humano dos amores e ódios de Genghis Khan como filho, marido e pai. Agora, o herói vai emergir da história que o escondeu por tanto tempo...
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A vida do príncipe Amechiyo está em risco depois que um profeta ou oráculo anuncia a seu pai, o lorde Azuchi Momoyama, que ele deixará de ser o mais belo entre todos os seres do universo. Lorde Azuchi ordena então que um monge vá até a Montanha Sagrada e mate o príncipe. Este é salvo por uma horda de guaxinins, que atacam o monge na floresta. A Princesa Guaxinim, em sua forma humana, encontra Amechiyo adormecido na floresta e cuida dele até que ele recobre os sentidos. No caminho para o Palácio Guaxinim, a princesa fere seu pé numa armadilha, e agora é Amechiyo que salva sua vida. Os dois se apaixonam. Quando chegam ao Palácio Guaxinim, os nobres rejeitam a união, pois é tabu que humanos e guaxinins possam se amar. Enquanto isso, lorde Azuchi descobre o paradeiro do filho e declara guerra aos reino guaxinim. Em seu último filme, Suzuki mergulha na fantasia do conto de fadas e da comédia musical, criando uma apoteose de cor e movimento.
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Young film star Ken Mihara is about to fall from stardom. His rise as a celebrity is solely credited to his onscreen counterpart, Keiko, who recently announced her retirement from acting in order to get married. Feeling frustrated and helpless, Ken turns to alcohol as he begins to provoke fights, attempts to lure a girl into bed, and argues with his wife, who came to visit him at the studio. All she says is thank you and leaves Ken puzzled. Ken Mihara, once a budding young star, takes a job as an extra. Although he's past his prime, he still manages to infuse a young filmmaker with the motivation to pursue her dreams as a director.
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Miyuki Minazuki, apelidada de “Gata de Rua,” é a “Número 3” no Sindicato de Assassinos. Ela mora com sua avó, e sua arma preferida é uma pistola. Gata de Rua recebe suas ordens de Sayoko Uekyo, uma mulher enigmática de vestido branco. Ela parece confortável com sua posição no ranking, mas a rivalidade se intensifica quando o misterioso “Número 1,” apelidado de “100 Olhos,” começa a atacar os outros assassinos que estão no topo da hierarquia. Quando Sayoko informa Gata de Rua de que 100 Olhos agora é um alvo para o Sindicato, surge a oportunidade para matá-lo e assumir o primeiro lugar. Espécie de remake e continuação de A Marca do Assassino (Goro Hanada, protagonista em 1967, é agora “Número 0,” um conselheiro de Gata de Rua), o filme aplica o estilo tardio de Suzuki à matriz dos filmes de gângster que ele fazia na Nikkatsu, resultando num painel delirante de cores e ritmos, um balé ou uma ópera de sedução e morte.
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Ikuko is a mature, reserved Kyoto woman married for many years to a respectable, now-middle-aged man. The only problem in their relationship has been that her husband is dissatisfied with her lack of passion during lovemaking. All this changes after they meet the young Mr. Kimura
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Biwako is a vain, middle-aged actress who witnesses a brutal murder. Realizing that the very public life of the woman makes their sole witness vulnerable to the killers, the police assign two officers to safeguard her until the trial. In the interim, the lives of Biwako and everyone around her are changed in unexpected ways.
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Failing supermarket manager Goro hires the energetic Hanako, his old classmate, to help him compete with a new, rival business in town. Soon, Hanako's ideas and energy completely revitalize the store – but not without ruffling some feathers and sparking some romance along the way.
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Melodrama about the life of a mentally handicapped young man and his devoted sister after their famous novelist father and housewife mother go to Australia on a business trip.
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A five-part comedy and horror anthology
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A successful Japanese movie director in his sixties becomes increasingly ill while working on his latest film. Though his family, friends, and doctor try to keep the secret of his terminal cancer from him, Buhei gradually comes to realize the truth of his condition, leading him on a journey of despair, anger, and, ultimately, acceptance.
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A romantic tale from the team of Fujio F. Fujiko and director Yoshimitsu Morita. The two heroines are played by Shizuka Kudo and Misa Shimizu, and it co-stars Motoya Izumi, David Ito, Toshiaki Karasawa, Isao Hashizume, Kyoka Suzuki, et al. The soundtrack is packed with hit songs incouding Wham's "Last Christmas", Earth, Wind & Fire's "Let's Groove", Kome Kome Club's "Roman Hikou," Saki Kubota's "Ihoujin" among others.
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An upscale Japanese hotel hires Mahiru Inoue, a lawyer adept at dealing with the Yakuza, to help them rid their hotel of the local gangsters so they can get a contract for a meeting of important foreign officials.
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A human drama on the state of marriage today, following the battle between a mother and daughter over her marriage and humorous depictions of the people around them. When Mieko's husband passes away, she hopes to arrange a good marriage for her daughter Non, but things don't go as planned when Non reveals there's already a love interest in her life.
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A TV production crew are making a documentary about the infamous painter Mamiya Ichiro. When they start filming at his old home, they come under attack from the ghost of the painter's wife.
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Despite his efforts of living a normal life as a banker, the life of Toru, the only son of the Yubari Family, becomes disrupted by trouble brought on by his father. When his father’s battle against his rival group the Miike Family ignites, Toru becomes more involved in the turf war than he wished for.
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Ryōko Itakura returns as the tough-as-nails government taxing agent. This time she must figure out a way to expose a fanatical religious cult lead by a corrupt sociopath.
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Tatsuhiko and Shofumi are hoodlums living in downtown Hawaii, who have flown out of Japan and entered the country illegally for a reason. The two make a living by trafficking marijuana under the pretext of selling tea leaves, but they are in a foreign land where they don't speak the language well.
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Based on the comic by Mako Takami.
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Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Gondo, a suspected millionaire and proprietor of a thriving chain of seedy hourly hotels, who has for years succeeded at hiding the true extent of his assets from the Japanese authorities. Itakura and Gondo soon find themselves engaged in a complicated, satirical battle of wits.
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Two TV salarymen uphold their duty by taking on a rival talent agency during the late-'80s bubble economy.
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Young writer Tamako, who is wrongfully accused of killing the head yakuza, must find a way out of trouble.
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Daisuke is supposed to be out looking for a respectable job and equally respectable wife. He is 30 years old and devotes his attention to music and literature; his family is wealthy and can support his interests. When his friend Hiraoka returns with his wife Michiyo, problems arise.
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Nikkatsu Roman Porno
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When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events and occurrences as the funeral unfolds over three days in their home.
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Roman Porno from 1984.
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A kindergarten teacher meets a novice magician and together they travel to another city to find love.
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After a woman is framed for the murder of her fisherman husband, she seeks out a bloody revenge on the corrupt businessmen responsible.
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Deaths in Tokimeki tells the disturbing, compulsive story of a hit-man waiting to carry out a job: the assassination of the leader of a religious cult, masterminded by the leader's own deputy. But it is a story that is told in blocks, like the phrases in a child's computer game, and what counts most is not the narrative but the spaces between the blocks-the gaps that are filled with undefined menaces as potent as anything in Lovecraft.
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An office lady joins a "mistress bank", starts falling in love with her client and gets involved in a murder case.
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Dr. Cat Kagami was hoping to leave her torrid past behind, but a failed assassination attempt has now put her square in the crosshairs of a team of brutal killers. Now no one is safe, including her lesbian co-worker and a mysterious woman with a terrible secret that could bring down an entire Japanese company. Cat must take the law into her own hands and enact her own special kind of revenge!
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A young couple with marital problems are beset by an office lady temptress, amorous paramours and the swingers next door.
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Two high school girls, in sailor suits, are in love. That is, until one of them is back in a relationship with a boy and jealousy drama ensues.
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A sendup of the stereotypical Japanese family: dad is a salaryman jerk, unable to relate to anyone; mom is a hopeless housewife; the older son is a moderate academic success; but the younger son is a rebellious goof-off for whom a tutor must be hired. The tutor, played by the prototypical bad boy actor Matsuda Yusaku, proceeds to blow the entire family apart.
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Nikkatsu Roman Porno
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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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A moonlight skinny-dipping session between two carefree high schoolers leads to a young boy being accused of a violent assault on his female classmate. After throwing a teacher to the ground, he stomps out of the school gates and spends his summer break roaming a beachside town. Falling down a rabbit hole into a dark, oppressive world of sex and violence, he is taken in by a bar-owner and his libidinous mistress. Meanwhile, the teacher he assaulted hunkers down in a rented villa in the same coastal resort, awaiting a secret tryst with her married lover. What will happen when the student and teacher meet again?
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The film takes place in the popular tourist spot of Karuizawa. A working class student named Junichi becomes a waiter there in order to mix in with the upper classes. A stylish Roman Porno directed by Konuma, commemorating Nikkatsu's 70th anniversary.
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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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Nikkatsu Roman Porno
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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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Nikkatsu Roman Porno
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Yoshiko Ariake, a mainstream Toei actress lured to Nikkatsu, plays career lady Hineko who works for an interior design company. She's a confident woman, dedicated to business politics, but has never been willing to give herself to romance. In fact, it's easy for this fashionably bitter woman to be unfaithful in a relationship. Sparks fly when she meets a handsome rival (Yoshimitsu Onimaru).
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A wife and her husband make an agreement where the wife become the slave of him. A couple rent Nami for three months from a supplier who "trains" women to be slaves and submit to everything no matter how degrading, humiliating or painful.
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Nami is a department store worker who agrees to stand in for a friend in a magazine photo-shoot, which turns out to be for an S&M magazine. When the photos are published, she is sacked and her lover abandons her.
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Nikkatsu Roman Porno
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Roman Porno from 1980.
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Nikkatsu Roman Porno
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Masaru is freed from a juvenile detention center. Filled with rage and frustration he rapes a woman (Yuki Kazamatsuri) in the woods. She then meets his older brother, a deliveryman and tells him her story, and they soon become good friends, which will lead to a sexual relationship. Later, she finds out the two men are brothers and files a police report against the older one, accusing him of raping her. It seems she couldn't forget that night in the woods...
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Rena and Yuko are at it again.
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A man travels with his pill-popping girlfriend to the headquarters of her yakuza boss husband, in order to claim her for himself.
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In a rural town, ex-members of a motorcycle gang become sporadic victims of a vigilante attack. A group of high school boys are responsible for the various assaults because they're upset that the motorcycle gang had disbanded. Seemingly, these kids idolized the rebel gang and harbored dreams of joining them after graduation. Female student Miku (Megumi Saki) happens to see one of the vengeance assaults, and is threat-ened by the high school thugs. After getting raped, she soon develops a compassion for the wild boys.
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Nunsploitation from Japan. Part of the Shûdôjo series.
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Kantaro Iwata's life is not a happy one, neither at the office where he is looked down upon, nor at home where he has a nagging wife and children who treat him with scorn. All these things pile up until he takes things into his own hands.
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A young couple, meeting for a tryst at the site of a brutal rape/murder, witness another murder and have to decide whether to turn the killer in.
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Nikkatsu Roman Porno from 1979
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Yuichi prides himself on the fact that he is a family man but contrary to his conception of an ideal family life, at age 24, his wife has already run out on him. In utter confusion, he tries to reason out where he had gone amiss that such a thing should happen out of the clear blue sky. About this time, Yuichi helps Ayako, a young girl, embroiled in trouble. She returns Yuichi's kindness by making off with his precious camera. Then she returns and since his wife has washed her hands of him, he forces himself on Ayako who acts as if she had been waiting for him to enter her. Suddenly, Yuichi's wife returns...
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A sexually frustrated office worker hit his boss in the night club. The next day he is told he's to be demoted to a different position in the company. He gets so disturbed and thus begins his rape rampage. He rapes a number of hard-to-get ladies in his company. Surprisingly, the ladies are stimulated by his assault and finally help him in getting promoted.
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Junko Miyashita plays a mysterious hitchhiker picked up by a brute of a construction worker named Kenzo who takes her back to his run-down and cramped apartment in a not so good part of town. Claiming that she is running away from an abusive husband, she shacks up with him. In a futile attempt to escape the bleak working class surroundings, the pair engage in an obsessive erotic relationship.
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Kanako meets a BDSM artist, who teaches women an extreme form of erotic submission - how to act like a dog. It's rough and he even brings a real dog for her, but she goes with it. This improves her and her geeky husband's marriage.
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A woman on her way to Tokyo is repeatedly raped by various men she encounters on the highway.
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Sometimes… Like a Prostitute is a 1978 Roman Porno film directed by Masaru Konuma and starring singer Rei Nakanishi, whose hit song inspired the story.
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The story of a high school boy (Toshiyuki Nagashima) in Tokyo returning to his home town of Nagano upon the death of his father.
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Nikkatsu Roman Porno
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Saori is the wealthy, unfaithful wife of the impotent Kosaku. When she returns from a trip abroad, Tsumura, Kosaku's assistant, meets her and takes Saori to an apartment. There, Tsumura rapes her and submits her to various sexual tortures while she is photographed by photo-journalist Tayama. Saori's husband Kosaku uses the photographs to blackmail her into giving him control of the family estate. Saori is returned to her mansion, but kept in a cage in the basement where she is subjected to regular bouts of abuse from Tsumura. Besides rape, other indignities endured by Lady Saori include breast bondage, enemas and the insertion of hen's eggs into her vagina. After Kosaku dies from a stroke, Saori realizes that she has come to enjoy Tsumura's treatment.
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Masao is falsely accused and jailed for the murder of a loanshark to whom he owed a lot of money. His sister Kiriko makes the long trip to Tokyo, specifically to accost Otsuka, Japan's top criminal defence lawyer, and plead with him to take her brother's case. They live in Kitakyushu which, though a city, she contends that the local lawyers are not up to the job. Otsuka contemptuously brushes her off. A year passes. Masao has suicided in jail, his appeal having failed due to the lack of interest and competence of the local defence lawyer. Kiriko returns to Tokyo, planning revenge on Otsuka for refusing the case and causing her brother's death.
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A young teacher (Eiko Nagashima) is raped by students. She tries to resign but then decides to return and face the class.
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Utae and Aiko attend an all-girl private school where the devoutly religious principal seems to be raping some of the students, including Utae.
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Teenage cousins Masao and Tamiko fall in love when she comes to his riverside brewery house to take care of his sickly mother. Family objections ensue as Tamiko is older than Masao, and the two cannot marry in peace.
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Japanese drama film.
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Live-action adaptation of Shinji Mizushima's manga.
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Nikkatsu Roman Porno
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Nikkatsu Roman Porno
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Many are the romantic stories of beautiful stewardesses who have dreamed and become modern Cinderellas. Yumi, though, has no such dreams. She loves Shimada, a very ordinary, young man and hopes to marry him one day. However, during the flight to Tokyo, the Petroleum Minister of a certain country sets eyes on Yumi, the loveliest girl ever hired by JAL, and is more than pleased with what he sees. When Yumi is approached, she declines instantly but everyone seems to gang up to bend her will to theirs and soon the newspapers report that Yumi has accepted the Petroleum Minister's proposal.
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When a stuck-up and privileged lady of a wealthy family is left to fend for herself, her butler decides to teach her some overdue humility through BDSM. His spiral of debauchery is soon overtaken by madness, and his sex games threaten to harm more than just her social standing and pride.
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Roman Porno from 1976
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Akira and Hiroshi are two lowlives who hang around pachinko parlours. Hiroshi is a ladies' man but always loses at pachinko. Akira is a virgin at 25 but always wins. Hiroshi tries to get Akira laid with little success but things change when Akira is informed of a 88 million yen inheritance.
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Roman Porno from 1975.
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Nikkatsu Roman Porno
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Miss Yamagami is beautiful with a willowy figure and slender legs. She seems out of place teaching in an all boys school. The young school marm is fully aware of her power over the impressionable boys in school and it satisfies her vanity. She stirs up their nameless longings until they are carried away and resort to acts on which Miss Yamagami had not counted on.
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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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Nikkatsu Roman Porno
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Roman Porno from 1974.
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Roman Porno from 1974.
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Pinku from 1974.
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Roman Porno from 1973.
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Roman Porno from 1973.
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A young office worker grows up to become an insatiable sexual deviant thanks to her mother's "lusty blood". She can't control her abnormal desire, which flares up at the mere sight of a man. The blood of debauchery hidden in the seemingly ordinary and healthy body of an office worker delights and confounds men.
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Roman Porno from 1973.
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Roman Porno from 1973.
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A teenage runaway (Yuko Katagiri) goes to Tokyo.
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Sachiko has just committed a crime. She is helped by a couple to whom she grants her confidence. Quickly this couple blackmails her and threatens to deliver her to the police. Sachiko has no other choice but to obey them.
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An upwardly-mobile banker's boss introduces him to the adopted daughter of a wealthy client. He falls in love with the girl and wants to marry her, not knowing that she is involved in a kinky sadomasochistic relationship with her artist father.
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Roman Porno from 1973.
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Yukie, Koichi and Akira are rogues looking for a place to crash. They move into a house which Etsuko (Kaori Momoi) inherited from her parents. Soon after getting settled, the hippies slip into a communal lifestyle. They eat, have sex, and generally share everything together.
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Roman Porno from 1972.
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The sixth year of Hōei. In the sixth year of the reign of Tokugawa Ienobu (Hiroyuki Mikawa), the sixth shogun, Kayo (Yumi Nakano), a maid in the O-oku (inner sanctum) of Edo Castle, was beaten. The incident is buried in the dark, and the closet where Kayo was beaten becomes an "unopened room. One day, after four years had passed, Echizen no Mori (Toshihiko Oda), on a hawking trip with Ienobu, presented Ienobu with a beautiful tattoo of Oma (Maya Kitami) on his back. Ienobu is overjoyed and becomes completely captivated by O-Man's body...
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Roman Porno from 1972.
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Roman Porno from 1972.
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Reiko is an adulterous housewife whose lover is a foul-tempered yakuza gangster. After one of her husband's friends spies the amorous duo at a no-tell motel, the stage is set for murder.
