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Inspired by the work of Japanese eroticist Oniroku Dan, this scintillating thriller follows the career trajectory of an executive secretary as she ascends the latter of success and has a chance encounter with an ex-colleague. Before long, she's fallen into a dangerous world of taboo sex and sadomasochism
When 200-year-old human remains discovered in the Himalayas are identified as a perfect DNA match to a missing woman, a complex mystery involving suspicious deaths, lost memories, and hidden truths begins to unfold.
Masataka works as a freelance writer. He has been married to Yukie for the past 7 years. Yukie works as a school teacher. Masataka and Yuki are not in love with each other. They just haven't gotten divorced. Meanwhile, Masataka is having an affair with a young woman who delivers newspapers. This leads to a shocking situation.
A Tokyo TV drama based on the eponymous manga.
Natsumi (Ai Takeuchi) is forced to work in a steel factory in order to pay off a debt, a factory notorious for employing women with "dark pasts" as slave labor. Tsukada, Chief of Security places Natsumi in a team of four women led by Atsuko(Nagisa Umeno). When one worker fails to follow instructions, Tsukada rapes her, and Natsumi is next on his list. Natsumi tries to fight the insanity, but is hindered by managing director Hideko and factory president Kamiyama. It is up to Natsumi to take on the evildoings of the factory.
Four women of different ages work at or frequent an ice cream shop, each dealing with dreams, timidity, inexperience with love, and personal pain, their lives intersecting at the shop.
Kamiki is now the manager at Minerva’s new Tachikawa branch. His latest scheme is the Akiya Buy-up Project, a project for buying up vacant properties to revitalize the local community.
In 2014, a series of murders targeting women takes place in Kawasaki City. All the victims have been killed as if they had hanged and these are dubbed the "Hanging Murders" in public. The police investigation runs into difficulties without clues on the murderer. However, Detective Iguchi from the First Investigation Division has his eye on a man whom he suspects to kill for pleasure. This man is Naoya Nogi. He lies about his identity, erases his traces in public, and lives as if he is holding his breath. Nogi is actually Masato Yaginuma, the victim in the sensational Akishima mother and son kidnapping case. He gets his neighbor, Yoshika, involved as he tries to escape the police dragnet but comes to realize some facts. What is his true motive?
Kazuki Suzumoto is divorced and he lives with his 15-year-old son Kouki. Kouki is in a susceptible time. The father feels guilty about his son. Kouki then fails his high school entrance exam. In the spring of the following year, Kouki barely passes his high school entrance exam. Kouki mentions to Kazuki that he likes his father's lunch box. The father and son make a promise to each other. Kazuki promises that he will make a lunch box everyday for Kouki. Kouki promises that he will never skip school.
Kanako, a math teacher who had previously inflicted punishment on a student at her previous school, has now been appointed to Kuronuma High School after completing her atonement. However, soon after arriving, she is attacked by four delinquents from her class. She is taken to an abandoned factory site, where the students, who have photographed her naked and bound, take turns raping her. Yada gazes at the unconscious Kanako, who is being held up in the air, with a look of amusement. He flashes the photographic evidence of what happened at the factory site, bringing up the past punishment, and corners the defenceless Kanako, saying, "There is punishment for every crime." She resists desperately, but there is nothing she can do...
Chieko Sato lives in the seaside town of Ishinomaki where she was born and raised. She has lived a happy life with her fisherman husband and 2 children. Her life changed after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake. Her husband has not come back since that day and the lives of her two children have been damaged. Do Hyun once lived in Ishinomaki, but he went back to South Korea. He returns to the seaside town and tells Chieko Sato something about her husband that she did not know.
A religious cult called Mushikago no Niwa that secretly developed hidden human potential existed in the past. However, one such person, whose potential was unleashed, rose in rebellion. After the cult was destroyed, the members dispersed and only the rumour of a vast fortune on the cult grounds is whispered in the underworld. Nanami is a go-between and trades information with people of the underworld. One day, he meets Kagoroku who happens to be there when he is in a tough spot in a secret deal. The two of them eventually team up to solve all sorts of issues. They get involved in a fight between the former Mushikago no Niwa members that went through human experiments and the people of the underworld over the assets and mystery of the cult.
The plot is a continuation of the first installment. After Jundao enters the company where Akashi is located, the two secretly establish a romantic relationship, but the work is not smooth, which has brought a challenge to their relationship.
Omijima is a part-time worker for job unemployed. One day, she happens to have a one-night relationship with a beautiful woman, Kana, who she visits during her moving part-time job. A few days later, Kana was the interviewer at the company's interview venue where Kijima went to take the job exam. Although he was confused, he was happy to become an employee, but he knew that his girlfriend Kana would be his boss.
Episode 1: Atsushi and his sister Naomi live under the same roof. Despite her strong love to her brother, Naomi buries her real emotion deep in her heart, and she can only express her feeling in the virtual computer domain. Meanwhile, Naomi’s college friend pursues her strongly, but she still cannot forget her brother. To heal her broken heart, Naomi decides to run away to America… Episode 2: Kumiko is currently living with her brother Tatsuya who is back from overseas. Kumiko has always hidden her feeling from her brother, but she can hold it back against her passion no more when the two grown-ups live together once again. One day, Tatsuya discovers his sister’s secret accidentally from her blog and therefore decides to disclose his secrets to Kumiko too. Since then the situation is only getting uncontrollable…
In the sequel of this naughty fantasy, Koto recovers from her attack with the help of a doctor. But soon she is forced to fight the black demons in order to protect her new friends.
Hisako, born and raised in an impeccable family, currently lives a life of comfort as the wife of a university professor. However, recently she has been unable to accept her husband, Okochi, has been secretly meeting with Akemi, his former mistress, finding pleasure in being violated by her. Just as she was falling into self-loathing, thinking what an ugly and defiled woman she was, Okochi decided to leave Japan for three months. While Okochi was away, Akemi, filled with feelings akin to jealousy and hatred, treated Hisako as her slave. The first to visit the mansion was Kazuo, whom she had met at Okochi's farewell party. Hisako pleaded with Kazuo, asking him to pretend that he had slept with her. Kazuo, who had secretly harbored feelings for Mrs. Hisako, promised to rescue her from Akemi. However, on the day of their meeting, Hisako had already been captured...
After ten years in prison for a high school classmate's murder, Koji gets out and joins the yakuza. But his victim's father has him on his radar. Yamai is released thanks to Akiko but the search for Miyake's killer begins. Security camera footage reveals Seiji to be the culprit.
A depressed ex-boxer (Yosuke Kubozuka) self-medicating for the injuries that ended his career finds a stray cat that brightens his day, but she is snatched up by a comical grungy mechanic (Kenji Furuya). Calling each other by the competing names they gave the cat, Maru and Lily, the odd pair is abruptly sucked into a political conspiracy with Saeko (Yui Ichikawa) and her son at the center. Witnessing another injustice in which the economic and social elite prey on the vulnerable, the two strays set off on the road to redemption, or at least peaceful cat ownership. (Fun fact: in addition to acting together in Alley Cat, Yosuke Kubozuka and Kenji “KJ” Furuya released the single “Soul Ship” in 2017. Kubozuka performs as Manji Line and Furuya in the band Dragon Ash.) -JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film
Saya had planned a scheme so that Sakiko, who works under Makoto, would witness her sexual affair with Makoto in the office. Makoto’s home is about to become a broken one when his wife Sachiko is told of her husband’s unfaithful doings. Saya, simmering with bottomless vengeance, exploits Hayakawa, Makoto’s daughter’s private tutor, to lure Sachiko into committing adultery... and in the end, nothing can hold down sexual desires!