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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
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.
Aug 1985
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.
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
Adapted from Shusaku Endō's novel.
Oct 1988
A former sumo wrestler, now working as a security guard, goes on a murderous rampage.
Jun 1992
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 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.
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
After returning from the Burmese front in WWII, a man finds trouble brewing back home.
Apr 1986
Aug 1993
A young man saves a woman who is trying to commit suicide, gradually discovering more about her troubled past.
Dec 1985
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
A married couple of abalone divers must confront ruthless investors taking over their coastline.
Apr 1984
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
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
Mar 1991
A carnivorous monster lives on the island of Sipang. A group of office ladies band together to fight it.
Jul 1990
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
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