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One day, when a vacancy opened up at the boarding house, an ostentatious move began. An elderly man arrived in a luxury car and directed the movers as fine items—luxurious bedding, a paulownia wood wardrobe, and other furniture—were hauled in. The new boarder turned out to be Ayamaro, the legitimate heir of the former noble Ura Komichi family. Perhaps due to his aristocratic upbringing, he just couldn’t quite match everyone else’s pace.
Nov 1975
Sep 1977
Satoko, a mentally frail girl, is taken in by Anzai, the owner of a hot springs inn, after her parents commit suicide. One day, the clerk Matsuo forcibly takes Satoko's virginity. The following night, the clerk appears in Satoko's room again. The servant Shozo feels sorry for Satoko and invites her to run away to Tokyo with him. Meanwhile, Shozo steals money from the inn and accidentally kills Matsuo. He buries the body and runs away to Tokyo. Satoko is left alone and is subjected to Anzai's bizarre torture...
Sep 1980
A sexy slapstick comedy Nikkatsu film about an unsuccessful comedian working at a lively strip club.
Feb 1980
Hospital director Mamoru Watanabe and nurse Reiko had a secret affair, but their relationship comes to an end when a young nurse Yumiko appears. Jealous, Reiko conspires with her ex-husband to take Yumiko to an underground warehouse... A young and beautiful angel in white is beaten, and intense pain turns into pleasure...
Jan 1982
While peeping on couples in the park an old man remembers the sexual experiences of his university days and the period during and after the war.
Mar 1975
May 1981
Jul 1975
After being mistaken for counterfeiters by the police an inventor and reporter try to track down the real counterfeiters.
Oct 1965
Sep 1975
A tragic tattooed woman is forced to break up with her boyfriend and perform in a perverted show...
Feb 1983
A young man named Jun Umemura, with the look of a radical student, arrives at the boarding house run by widowed 'Mama' Katsu. Struck by his handsome features, she showers him with attention and gradually coaxes him into her bed. But just as he's faced with Mama’s seductive, bare body, he spots a fellow activist ... and bolts out the door.
A bus full of tour bus guide trainees is hijacked by two men after pulling over for a bathroom break. Loosely inspired by a 1977 bus jacking that occurred in Nagasaki.
Dec 1977
Minemura, who works in the obstetrics and gynecology department of the hospital, was unable to have an abortion, and she was fired. She leaves the hospital and opens a hidden obstetric and gynecological practice on a remote street. This place became a place for women who wanted to get medical help, secretly. One day, when Minemura finds out that the woman who came to him is a virgin, he feels lustful and eventually rapes her.
Nov 1976
Jul 1976
Jan 1980
A woman runs a successful boutique and lives a work-centered life. She is called a career girl by those around her. She also has a sweet lover. He even proposed to her. But she doesn't want to live that way. She actually had an abominable trauma in her past. She had her mind and body toyed with by a sweaty manual laborer with no trace of education, and even though it was a past she wanted to erase, she still felt physically attracted to that man...
Mar 1979
Pink film distributed by Toei Central Film.
Aug 1984
A young man named Jun Umemura, with the look of a radical student, arrives at the boarding house run by widowed 'Mama' Katsu. Struck by his handsome features, she showers him with attention and gradually coaxes him into her bed. But just as he's faced with Mama’s seductive, bare body, he spots a fellow activist, and bolts out the door.
Dec 1974
Oct 1975