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Two good friends entering different women's colleges, joining the wrestling club, and fighting as rivals.
Jan 1984
A university student travels to a popular resort in the mountains for a summer job as a waiter and becomes romantically involved with an older woman from a wealthy family.
Aug 1982
In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tampopo, begs them to help her turn her establishment into a paragon of the "art of noodle-soup making". Interspersed are satirical vignettes about the importance of food to different aspects of human life.
Nov 1985
Two people who have suffered the loss of a loved one meet by chance at a train station and lose themselves in a melancholy affair.
May 1984
The daily life of a female teacher appears calm and ordinary at first glance. However, behind her back, her husband, an elite teacher who works at the same school, continues to torture her with sadistic sex. Her husband played exam questions to violent students and played with the female students' bodies in return. When the female teacher goes out into the city at night to say goodbye to the ugliness and dirt hidden in her school and husband, she finds human liberation and a new way of life.
Jun 1984
Kato is a small time TV producer. He has a wife Masako, and a young son Taro. Kato also has a friend Yamazaki who he knew since college. Yamazaki has a girl friend Riko who lives with her younger sister Yuko who's an actress. Yamazaki is a lyric writer/womanizer and he starts to have an affair with Masako, but he's still going out with Riko.
Aug 1983
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Apr 1987
The life and affairs of a famous writer is seen through the eyes of his last mistress.
Kotomi's overly sensitive H diary. Today I went on a date with Hiroshi. No matter how long she waited, Hiroshi never showed up. I was attacked by a strange old man in the bathroom. When she went to aerobics, the instructor Yamagishi-san looked at her strangely...
Aug 1984
In 1026, students in western China are shanghaied into the forces of crown prince Li Yuanhao of Xi Xia, who wants to control the length of the Silk Road. One student is Zhao Xingde, who becomes the favorite of his commander, Zhu Wangli. While sacking a fortress, Xingde discovers Tsurpia, princess of the Uighur. He hides her; they fall in love. When he's sent away to study Xixian, he leaves Tsurpia in Zhu's care, but returns to find her engaged to Li. Tragedy follows, and he and Zhu enter a pact to take revenge when Li arrives at Dun-Huang, the region's seat of learning and culture. Against overwhelming odds, they find a surprising way to leave a monument to their life and love.
Jun 1988
A high school girl is recruited by a photographer to be a model for a photo book. Thinking that she can make lots of money she agrees. He starts innocently enough but slowly convinces her to pose for more explicit shots.
Nov 1981
Teacher Shizuko and her literature club students are caught up in a murder case while on vacation in Izu. The victims are Kazumasa, who was in a relationship with Shizuko's friend Ritsuko, and his wife.
May 1986
Stuck doing show-biz schlock, an investigative reporter stumbles on a scheme to swindle pensions through an attractive gold futures scam, a potential news-story.
Mar 1986
A reporter goes undercover the red-light district of Kabukicho, Shinjuku, and experiences a first-hand experience of the entertainment industry, which takes an unexpected turn...
Apr 1984
In the exotic location of Los Angeles, California a business woman enjoys all the men in her life whether it’s her older husband, a younger relative or a former fiancé.
Apr 1982
At an all-girls school, a group of girls prepare for a stage performance of Anton Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard".
Nov 1990
A young man living on growing tomatoes in a greenhouse in a residential area. Tomato cultivation is as doomed as his personal life where he tries to keep alive his romance with the eccentric Kaede and parents selected fiancee Ayako.
Oct 1981
A bittersweet coming of age story of a high school girl, her father and the end of an erotic night club. An allegorical requiem for Nikkatsu studios.
Apr 1988
With the enforcement of the new Entertainment and Amusement Law, what will happen when fashionable massage girls have lost their way?
Mar 1985