Acting
A memory-wiped and defective cyborg sex slave is tossed onto the streets and taken in by a homeless woman while his corporate creators hunt him down.
Yuji and Akiko are newlyweds. Yuji dreams of being a movie star. He lands the lead role in a Pink Eiga soft-core sex film. The director requires him to have sex with the actress. Akiko goes to her high school reunion and is raped by a drunken guy, and then hooks up with her ex-high school love. A dark and comedic look at contemporary relationships and the pitfalls of married life. The story was written by Locarno International Film Festival, Golden Leopard Prize Winner, Masahiro Kobayashi. (Pink Eiga)
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.
A middle-aged man walks up to young man who is sitting under a tree and shoots him. The film then flashes back to 1981, where a young woman steals a car with a baby strapped inside. She decides to raise the child as her own, and teaches him to shoplift from stores while she works as a prostitute. She strikes up a relationship with a convenience-store clerk, and the two eventually settle down together.
A sensual drama depicting the changing state of mind of a married woman who reunites with her former affair partner.
Perfect Blue: Yume Nara Samete (パーfectブルー 夢なら醒めて, Pāfekuto Burū: Yume Nara Samete) is a 2002 Japanese psychological thriller film directed by Toshiki Satō and adapted from the novel of the same name by Yoshikazu Takeuchi. The story centers on Ai, a teen pop idol transitioning to a recording career, whose life unravels amid fixation from a obsessive convenience store clerk, leading to themes of distorted self-perception, narcissistic delusions, and violent events.
Set in a metropolis in the 21st century, this unique erotic drama depicts youth colored by sex, drugs, and violence with a touch of science fiction.
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...
Hosono, a film director who continues to make adult videos to make a living, spends his days desperately trying to realize his own project. However, one day, driven by anxiety and impatience, he steals a script from the screenwriter's home...
Tomoko couldn't sleep all night. She bought a house and can't pay the mortgage. Tomoko is a banker, and she mainly goes out on the road, but her performance is not good. She nand her husband discuss money, but as usual, she says she'll do something about it...
A fugitive man and woman (Kawase, Kawana) come to an island to retrieve their son (Iwasaki), who the woman has given to a foster family, but the son's foster parents are policemen (Ito)... The suspense surrounding the retrieval of the son is made unusual by the location shooting on the vast and desolate Miyakejima Island and leads to an allegorical drama about the essential desires of human beings. This was Kawase Yota's first appearance in a Zeze film, and he has since become a regular actor. The title of the film at the time of its first release was Sukebe Tenkomori.
Junko, who has precognition, predicted her senior's death and disappeared from her fiancé's life. Five years later, Junko, who works in a peep-shop, reunites with Kazuki and rekindles their love, but tragedy soon ensues. Hotaru Hatsuki, one of the most popular actresses of the 1990s, gives a strong performance in this poignant tale of a woman's attempt to escape her fate.
Saeki Shingo and Yuri are siblings who lost their parents at an early age and live together. However, Shingo gets engaged to his girlfriend Keiko, and the three of them start living together. Although this new life should be full of happiness, Keiko has some worries. She is having an affair with her boss, Tsuchiya. Moreover, Keiko, who had been turned into a masochist by Tsuchiya, worries that she may no longer be able to have normal sex. Meanwhile, Yuri is completely addicted to lesbian play with her girlfriend Miyuki...
Remake of Chusei Sone's 1983 comedy about a yakuza family trying their luck in show business.
An uncool but funny love struggle between a worldly-minded young man and a quiet, serious young man for a kind-hearted madonna.
No Good Men follows Kumiko, a young and attractive woman that works at a travel agency, and moonlights as an insatiable, sex-hungry mistress.
A young man living in a provincial city falls in love with a stripper. Due to his innate shame, he is unable to express his feelings, and his pent-up emotions end up manifesting in the despicable form of betrayal of his friend.
