Acting
An unsatisfied married woman reconnects with a friend who has been engaging in peculiar sexual practices with her own artist husband.
A woman ends up in prison because of her lying, manipulative and exploitative lover. There she discovers that she is not alone.
A young man has more on his hands than he can handle: a child he rarely sees, a runaway wife, and a young prostitute he has just met. The close-knit city of Tokyo brings them all together.
Bored with the idea doing a documentary about school life for the upcoming cultural festival three students in the film club decide to make their own movie. But because they want to do a blue movie they discover that finding a leading lady is not so easy.
Three young boys drunkenly rape a woman named Emiko, the wife of a man they've developed a friendship with. She dies of heart failure during the attack. Her chicken farmer husband, incapable of dealing with her death tends to her corpse as though it were still alive completely unable to accept her demise.
The film is an adaptation of Nakano Yu's play "Sexual Beauty Techniques," serialized as a manga.
After having dropped out of school and given birth at age 16, Mako has little choice but to move in with the baby's deadbeat father. Struggling to make ends meet by working at a bar and in constant conflict with her conservative parents, Mako has to find her way in a harsh world.
A young couple with artistic tendencies spends their time around a bar in central Shinjuku, trying to figure out their relationship and life aspirations.
A high school boy with violent impulsive tendencies begins a troubled relationship with an older woman he sees at a funeral.
