Acting
Inspired by the true story of a Geisha murdered in a city famous for its baths, Adachi forged here his favorite style, a kind of conceptual documentary recounting the incident in monotone. The same event that at the beginning of Violated Angels escaped every principle of causality, is portrayed here as a singular anti-spectacle.
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.
Pinku from 1968.
Pinku from 1969.
Pinku from 1967.
A reporter, Nagako Kita, is fired for writing about police corruption. To make money, she hides while a weekly magazine publishes photos of her, and offers a prize to the person who discovers her. A group of three bank embezzlers, So Yamamura, Eiji Funakoshi, and Sotoji Mukui, employ Mukui's younger sister Fukiko as a fake employee at the bank and plan to make her disappear when the real woman appears again and blame the crime on her.
A man and a woman who make a living by running a honey trap. After making a move on a gang boss's mistress, the man accepts a request to commit a murder disguised as a traffic accident in order to settle the score...
Pink film distributed by Roppo Eiga.
Pink film directed by Kaoru Umezawa.
Pink film from 1971.
An adult film actress is lured into performing in S&M scenes. When she discovers she enjoys it, she begins to find difficulty distinguishing her real life from her acting life.
Directed by Seiichi Fukuda
Pink film by Kan Mukai.
Long ago, a concubine was bound to marry into a high-ranking samurai family when the time came, so she took her daughter with her. However, the man she was marrying never returned home. The woman then has an affair with her servant, who committed suicide out of guilt. Blaming the husband, the woman attached him, and then beheaded herself. In the present, the woman's now adult daughter wrestles her own desires...
Pink film by Satoru Kobayashi.
