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Door poster
Movie

Yasuko, a housewife, lives in an urban high-rise apartment with her husband Satoru and her son Takuto. Annoyed by spam calls and door-to-door salesmen, Yasuko slams the door on a salesman’s hand when he tries to squeeze a flyer through the apartment's chained front door. He leaves, but the next day, her nightmare starts.

Door

May 1988

Love Hotel poster
Movie

A call-girl named Yumi and Tetsuro, a married man with a debt to the yakuza, have a violent rendezvous in a cheap love hotel. Years later, haunted by the memory of that night, they reconnect and begin a strange love affair. Determined to finish what they started, they return to the scene of their first macabre passion.

Love Hotel

Aug 1985

Typhoon Club poster
Movie

Offering a caustic immersion into the lives of disaffected junior high students on the cusp of adulthood, the film takes place over the 5-day period before, during, and after a ferocious, seemingly liberating typhoon, which six of the students endure while marooned in their school.

Typhoon Club

Aug 1985

The Crazy Family poster
Movie

Shortly after moving to the suburbs, the Kobayashis start to come undone. Convinced a family curse is at the root of their erratic behavior, the man of the house takes it upon himself to course-correct before it takes the last of their sanity.

The Crazy Family

Jun 1984

Yojo no jidai poster
Movie

Adapted from Shusaku Endō's novel.

Yojo no jidai

Oct 1988

The Guard from Underground poster
Movie

A former sumo wrestler, now working as a security guard, goes on a murderous rampage.

The Guard from Underground

Jun 1992

Bumpkin Soup poster
Movie

A country girl visits Tokyo in search of her college heartthrob. Here she meets horny students, a psychology professor in search of the theory of shame, and Yoshioka who has become a campus nobody.

Bumpkin Soup

Nov 1985

Evil Dead Trap poster
Movie

A talk show hostess takes a camera crew out to an abandoned factory to investigate a purported snuff film that was made there. As she gets closer to the truth, she and her friends are subjected to a brutal nightmare.

Evil Dead Trap

May 1988

Luminous Woman poster
Movie

A hulking man from the country pursues his beloved to the underworld of Tokyo nightclubs, where he finds work as a sideshow wrestler and becomes involved with a faded opera singer.

Luminous Woman

Oct 1987

One Who Died in Vain poster
Movie

After returning from the Burmese front in WWII, a man finds trouble brewing back home.

One Who Died in Vain

Apr 1986

Tôhôkenbunroku poster
Movie

Tôhôkenbunroku

Aug 1993

Scent of a Spell poster
Movie

A young man saves a woman who is trying to commit suicide, gradually discovering more about her troubled past.

Scent of a Spell

Dec 1985

Wolf: Running Is Sex poster
Movie

A serial rapist's violent daily routine is disrupted when a disaffected young woman who shares his primal lifestyle begins living with him.

Wolf: Running Is Sex

Nov 1982

Mermaid Legend poster
Movie

A married couple of abalone divers must confront ruthless investors taking over their coastline.

Mermaid Legend

Apr 1984

Kandagawa Pervert Wars poster
Movie

Two sexually energized young women who live in a high-rise apartment building happen one day to spy from their window a mother and son making love in the apartment across from theirs. They decide to stage a rescue attempt to free him and in the process one of the young women ends up falling in love with the son despite having a boyfriend and enjoying sex with her female companion. Of course, the mother they are warring against has her own plans when she feels her privacy invaded.

Kandagawa Pervert Wars

Aug 1983

Tokyo Heaven poster
Movie

A pampered young model is killed in a traffic accident. Given the chance to return to earth, she becomes involved with the advertising executive who is trying to cover up her death. A blend of fantasy and trenchant realism in which Somai uses the ethereal glow of advertising images to comment on the transience of life.

Tokyo Heaven

Jun 1990

Mourning Work poster
Movie

Mourning Work

Mar 1991

Maria's Stomach poster
Movie

A carnivorous monster lives on the island of Sipang. A group of office ladies band together to fight it.

Maria's Stomach

Jul 1990

Slow Down poster
Movie

Youth movie set in Osaka about the trial and tribulations of growing up. Centered around three close friends, a bike racer, a yakuza thug and a spoiled rich boy - who meet a girl from Tokyo. Based on director Shinsuke Shimada's own book "Kaze, to Suzuka".

Slow Down

Nov 1991

Midsummer's Earth poster
Movie

A summery youth movie about love and beach volleyball, adapted by Yuhei Enoki from an original draft by Osamu Murakami. Starring Kenichiro Kikuchi and Eri Fukatsu.

Midsummer's Earth

Jun 1991

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