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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.
Aug 1985
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.
Jun 1984
After a woman is framed for the murder of her fisherman husband, she seeks out a bloody revenge on the corrupt businessmen responsible.
Apr 1984
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.
Nov 1985
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.
Jun 1991
A young man returns home from the bar only to find a woman who was about to kill herself. Taking her home and protecting her, he learns that she’s escaped from a violent husband. but there’s more to her story than she's willing to tell at first.
Dec 1985
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.
Oct 1987
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.
Aug 1983
Adapted from Shusaku Endō's novel.
Oct 1988
After returning from the Burmese front in WWII, a man finds trouble brewing back home.
Apr 1986
A serial rapist's violent daily routine is disrupted when a disaffected young woman who shares his primal lifestyle begins living with him.
Nov 1982
An unemployed young man who has just broken up with his girlfriend meets a woman at a bicycle race. They start dating but then strange things then begin to happen to him, including a beating from the local yakuza. - Wikipedia
Nov 1987
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".
Nov 1991
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.
May 1988
Aug 1993
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.
Jun 1990
A carnivorous monster lives on the island of Sipang. A group of office ladies band together to fight it.
Jul 1990
A former sumo wrestler, now working as a security guard, goes on a murderous rampage.
Jun 1992
Mar 1991