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Shuji, an unemployed young man, has been living a haphazard and lethargic life, cheating on his wife with his girlfriends and constantly asking his best friend for loans. Then one day, Shuji takes a train and arrives at a country town. There, he meets Sachiko, a woman who never smiles, and starts working as a live-in employee at the printing house where she works. Shuji has a lot of emotionless sex with Sachiko.
One day, Hitomi observes her classmate Eriko stealing lipstick in a drugstore and follows her home. The two young women get to know and love each other. While the withdrawn Hitomi believes herself and Eriko to be reincarnations of angel warriors who once fought demon armies, her emancipated and apathetic friend wanders through life between sex contacts with older men and fear of falling into a boring bourgeois existence. The different futures of the two soon lead to tensions.
A girl wanders down a long road. When she comes to, she finds herself in a deserted new town. A middle-aged man calls out to her and puts her in his car. The man, who claims to be a probation officer, is in fact the caretaker of the housing estate, and makes it a routine to approach women with the intention of roughing them up.
In the wake of the social unrest caused by the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, two female sumo athletes, Kiku and Tokachi, and an anarchist group called the Guillotine Society, spark an unlikely connection.
Takeshi, an alienated young man spends his lonely days obsessively following total strangers. He is employed to observe the movements of a beautiful but disturbed doctor, whose behavior is causing concern. As Takeshi continues to track her, a bond begins to grow between them, a bond which can only end in tragedy...
Cult filmmaker Hisayasu Sato's second comedy of the year, this silly softcore effort stars pretty Nao Kikuchi as a young married woman who takes a job at a call-girl agency with the mistaken belief that it is a maid service. After she is raped on her first assignment, Kikuchi is understandably shocked, but quickly warms to her new career and becomes quite the professional. Unfortunately, her husband soon discovers the true nature of her work.
Shinji Imaoka’s debut film about three men, a woman, and a dead body.
Unsatisfied with her husband, a wife decides to ride the train. She is soon awakened to its pleasures, leaving with one of the men. Eventually, she must turn to another...
It's a tribute to The Doors, but it's not just a tribute to them, it's also a criticism of rock stars who die too easily.
A convicted rapist, Ikuo is released from prison and goes in pursuit of the woman he raped, Mieko. So obsessed is he with revenge he sees her in every woman he meets. After carrying out vicious attacks on a prostitute and a young girl he finally comes face to face with her.
Japan’s oldest student dormitory holds a century of autonomous history. Facing a university demanding their eviction due to the building’s age, the residents, fighting for the survival of their space, question the future using dialogue as their foundation.
No Good Men follows Kumiko, a young and attractive woman that works at a travel agency, and moonlights as an insatiable, sex-hungry mistress.
Men are rotten. Women wander. Lost souls reconnect.
This time around psychotic vulvectomizer Takeshi tortures and sexually assaults a Kindergarten teacher.
