Biography: Kazuhiro Sano is a Japanese film director, screenwriter and actor best known for his pink films of the 1990s. Along with fellow directors, Takahisa Zeze, Toshiki Satō and Hisayasu Sato, he is known as one of the "Four Heavenly Kings of Pink". Description above from the Wikipedia article Kazuhiro Sano, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: Not available
Deathday: N/A
Popularity:
1997-07-10
Overview: Takao escaped from prison to take revenge on his wife who had informed him of his crimes. Along the way, I met Izumi, a high school girl who had been dating a middle-aged man, and spent the night. Takao appears in front of his wife with a gun in his hand ... The protagonist and the sexually unrestrained school girls, who have revenge but cannot give up their feelings for their wives, dramatically gloss various sexual forms.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-07-10
Popularity:
2018-01-01
Overview: During the one-year memorial of his late beloved father, a soon-to-be father (Hoshi Ishida) struggles to reconcile his feelings of loss and receives support from his mother, sister and wife. -JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-01-01
Popularity:
1981-02-06
Overview: A fast talking, money stealing, gambling, womanizing low level yakuza bum takes advantage of a bar owner’s virgin daughter. But even after he does the right thing his bad habits don’t change.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-02-06
Popularity:
1984-09-01
Overview: Pink film by Kazuo 'Gaira' Komizu.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-09-01
Popularity:
2004-01-01
Overview: A stranger, a man and a woman, meet at a certain place. Despite the fact that they have never met before, they both begin to become aware of the other. Various erotic images of the woman flash through the man's mind.... And the woman lets the man free his mind....
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-01-01
Popularity:
1997-10-29
Overview: A strangled corpse of Miss SM Hotetor was found at a love hotel. Nozawa, a detective who investigates the case, is fascinated by the mysterious beauty Lisa who appears on the investigation line.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-10-29
Popularity:
1995-07-28
Overview: It's a tribute to The Doors, but it's not just a tribute to them, it's also a criticism of rock stars who die too easily.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-07-28
Popularity:
2005-10-07
Overview: Sex Machine tells of the affable but simple Hiroshi, who during one sweltering summer in a small, parochial town, moves in with his girlfriend, Haruka. Their lovemaking is as athletic as it is bizarre but a dark storm comes looming when Haruka's ex boyfriend comes knocking at the door.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-10-07
Popularity:
1982-10-01
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-10-01
Popularity:
1986-09-23
Overview: A nurse starts to investigate why a woman who came to her office committed suicide. She discovers that a Yakuza gang is using an unusual drug to sexually enslave women. But she gets caught and when she is injected with the drug rather gruesome side effects appear, much to the surprise of the gang.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-09-23
Popularity:
2002-06-05
Overview: 2002 Pinku.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-06-05
Popularity:
1989-12-22
Overview: Yumika Hayashi's first Pink film!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-12-22
Popularity:
1995-10-13
Overview: Shinji Imaoka’s debut film about three men, a woman, and a dead body.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-10-13
Popularity:
2022-06-07
Overview: Not far in the future , the second nuclear accident happened in Japan. The Town next to it remains the same. Tatsuya works for the yakuza, Ryo who was in prison, and Mari the sex worker started living together. The misfit, the outcast, trying to survive and suffer in this world. This is a story of people who lost their place where they belong. Is there gonna be another day?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-06-07
Popularity:
1988-05-28
Overview: In the slums of Osaka, various marginalized misfits have their own interpretations of love. Completely alienated from the outside world, they commit sexual perversions, violence and cannibalism.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-05-28
Popularity:
1988-04-09
Overview: A depressed private detective who spends his days digging through love hotel trash for his cases meets a free spirited young woman who lives next door.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-04-09
Popularity:
2004-10-12
Overview: A young couple in love prepares to marry, but--contrary to the popular stereotype--the woman develops a classic case of "cold feet" and seeks the advice of an older man. In no position to offer solid counsel since his own marriage is failing, he instead allows her to seduce him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-10-12
Popularity:
1982-06-01
Overview:
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-06-01
Popularity:
1987-02-07
Overview: When a hapless man discovers his fiancé doing kinky things with another man he hires a SM mistress to teach him the finer points of bondage and discipline. Revenge will be his… at the end of a whip.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-02-07
Popularity:
1992-04-25
Overview: Softcore pink film by Shoji Tanaka.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-04-25
Popularity:
1990-05-01
Overview: Three social outcasts who live near the seaside interact with each other in increasingly disturbing ways. The trio of characters are a woman who has killed her sister, a man who enjoys necrophilia, and a female amnesiac. The first woman engages in sadistic pursuits such as capturing young women at the beach to force them to engage in sexual activities, including copulation with a horse and a dog.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-05-01
Popularity:
1998-10-31
Overview: One day, Hiroshi was helping in an acquaintance's shop and accidentally breaks a jar that cost 1 million yen. Hiroshi can't pay for that and he calls his parents' house as a last resort. He receives news that his father is ill with only 1 year left. Hiroshi wants to make his father happy and decides on a fake marriage. They find a lesbian teacher called Ayako interested in fake marriage on the internet. However, when they go to meet her the angry girlfriend of Ayako called Ami shows up and a man tries to catch Hiroshi for not paying his 1 million yen debt. They steal a van and Ami, Hiroshi and Toshiya drive off in hopes of finding Ayako.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-10-31
Popularity:
1988-01-01
Overview: Reporter Nukada's next big assignment is the secret world of Japanese phone sex clubs. He gets in touch with Midori, a part-time employee at the Banana Club, but is startled to hear she's been implicated in the bloody death of a client with perverted tastes, Kihara. Sensing a bigger story, Nukada uncovers a link between Midori and the late Kihara's wife and realizes that the situation is much more complex than he imagined.
Genres: Crime Mystery Horror Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-01-01
Popularity:
2022-11-05
Overview: A story of finding a place to root yourself when life’s obstacles have dispirited you. Chang-su, a former equestrian athlete for the South Korean national team, was forced to give up on his dream early. He finds himself working at a quarry in the rural town of Minawa in western Japan, where he lives with Minami and her infant daughter. Yamabuki, a teenage girl, begins to stage silent protests that blossom into community action, much to the dismay of her policeman father. The quiet surface of this rural town is gradually peeled off to reveal frustration and loneliness that, once given a voice, begin to connect people.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-11-05
Popularity:
1987-10-26
Overview: A bizarre medical exam of a nude woman by several doctors and scientists reveals that their latest subject has committed suicide before giving birth to one of the mutant creatures they had placed within her body. So, an investigative crew of scientists (along with a large human mutant cyclops creature) heads out to the city streets to obtain a new donor/victim in the form of a young girl. Gore and Z-Grade mayhem ensue.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-10-26
Popularity:
1998-01-29
Overview: Murakami's partner Mayumi has gone missing. He fears that she could have run off with another guy or gotten into difficulty by involving by herself with a 'telephone relationship club', a solution which hooks up strangers trying to find easy, anonymous sex, no concerns asked.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-01-29
Popularity:
2013-04-27
Overview: Set towards the end of World War II, Nomura (Masatoshi Nagase) is a writer who is in despair. A woman works in bar and is a former prostitute. Many years ago, her father sold her to a brothel due to the family's severe financial hardships. The writer and the woman then agree to live as husband and wife until the war ends. The woman doesn't feel sexual pleasures due to her past, while the man lusts for the woman's body. Meanwhile, Ohira (Jun Murakami) fought for Japan in China. He participated in unconscionable acts against civilians in the name of war. He returns to Japan with only one arm. Ohira then begins to prey on innocent women.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-04-27
Popularity:
1996-11-29
Overview: The days at a hostal doesn't seem to be very normal. Instead the visitors get a special treatement. The maids are always on dispose to serve their masters even if it is something not really normal. Hiden room and double view mirrors are only a part of this ex-state building.
Genres: Animation Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-11-29
Popularity:
2016-04-02
Overview: Sasaki Hiroshi, who loses both his vocal cords and his job due to throat cancer, is shocked to learn that his daughter Kumiko is not his biological child. He and his wife Harumi are anguished as distrust turns into obsession within the speechless Hiroshi.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-04-02
Popularity:
1996-04-12
Overview: Nakamoto, who works at a real estate agency, enters a vacant apartment without permission and begins to peep into it. By chance, he finds an apartment building where a TV reporter lives, and eventually starts playing pranks on the phone. One day, the woman comes to Nakamoto's real estate store as a customer .......
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-04-12
Popularity:
1994-01-01
Overview: The story of a girl riding a motorcycle and embarking on a journey to meet her distant father.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-01-01
Popularity:
1989-10-01
Overview: Kagawa gropes Marie on the train but she stops him. In order to get revenge on her, Kagawa followed her and tracked her down to her apartment. A few days later, he meets Yurika. With her help, Kagawa began his revenge on Marie. Marie is a mysterious woman who has relationships with multiple men, including company president Harada, elite businessman Ohmae, and part-time worker Osamu.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-10-01
Popularity:
2002-11-01
Overview: A sensual drama depicting the changing state of mind of a married woman who reunites with her former affair partner. Director Yuji Tajiri, who has produced many masterpieces, carefully depicts not only the protagonist's struggles with past love, but also the complicated relationship between her husband and his ex-wife. Chiharu (Yumeka Sasaki), who is looking for a job after her husband Ryoji (Kazuhiro Sano) was laid off, returns to her old company after reuniting with Yoshimura (Masataka Matsubara), a senior at the company she used to work for. When Chiharu learns that (Ami Sakura) and Yoshimura are dating, Chiharu, who had an affair with Yoshimura before marriage, is also disturbed.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-11-01
Popularity:
1980-09-06
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-09-06
Popularity:
1996-08-23
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-08-23
Popularity:
2001-05-04
Overview: Ryohei, a gay gangster, dreams of becoming a full-fledged gangster, even though he is bossed around by his elder brother Yamabe. One day, Yamabe accidentally kills Morishima, a member of the gang's leadership. Thinking that he will be killed by the gang if he continues like this, Yamabe takes Ryohei with him to an abandoned house deep in the mountains to dispose of Morishima's body...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-05-04
Popularity:
1989-09-02
Overview: An abusive psychologist enjoys torturing and abusing his wife. After rough sexual session of pain and dominance she decides to leave her husband. Then her masochistic twin sister arrives and of course plenty of kinky sexual torture and bondage happens next.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-09-02
Popularity:
1998-05-16
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-05-16
Popularity:
2000-02-26
Overview: Naoya, Kazuhiko, and Shinpei, were raised by their grandparents without the love of their parents. One day, Naoya's heart is shaken when Kazuhiko comes out of the closet. As a matter of fact, Naoya is also gay, but has been hiding and using his girlfriend Akira as a cover. One day, Jinko, who calls himself the half-sister of the three brothers, comes for a visit, and the strange lives of the quator will continue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-02-26
Popularity:
2006-03-24
Overview: A request came to Sobue, who works in the underground business. The mission is to capture Shiro, an employee who ran away with the proceeds from a pachinko parlor. Together with his apprentice Katsuya, we immediately began investigating. Shiro, who was hiding, was easily found, but he managed to escape despite being attacked. Maggie, the owner of a gay bar, finds a man unconscious in front of the bar and takes him home. That is Shiro, who is covered in scars. Shiro's naked body is beautiful and makes him want to attack, but...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-03-24
Popularity:
1989-10-27
Overview: Pinku distributed by Xces / Nikkatsu
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-10-27
Popularity:
1997-01-31
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-01-31
Popularity:
2001-02-22
Overview: Yoshioka Gynecologist is a women’s clinic that has a good reputation in the neighborhood. The medical examination by Dr. Yoshioka was trusted by many patients. However, Yoshioka, who collapsed due to too much overwork, became a wheelchair, and now Goro Kuroda and Yoshioka’s wife Eri have taken over the hospital. Goro and Eri are enthusiastically examining today. However, Kuroda had a serious secret.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-02-22
Popularity:
1993-10-01
Overview: Tomoko and Naomi have had a lesbian relationship since their high school days. They meet again a few years later, and this film depicts the course of their love. Tomoko's strong obsession with Naomi and her intense sexual desire excite the audience. The beauty of the last scene is a must-see!
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-10-01
Popularity:
1999-07-31
Overview: A veteran hitman who has failed his job and returns to his hometown of Okinawa to escape from the organization's pursuit. Decades later, in Okinawa, he meets his nephew, a beautiful young man. He falls in love with the young man, but eventually the organization follows him to Okinawa and starts closing in on them...
Genres: Romance Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-07-31
Popularity:
1999-04-23
Overview: A middle-aged man walks up to young man who is sitting under a tree and shoots him. The film then flashes back to 1981, where a young woman steals a car with a baby strapped inside. She decides to raise the child as her own, and teaches him to shoplift from stores while she works as a prostitute. She strikes up a relationship with a convenience-store clerk, and the two eventually settle down together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-04-23
Popularity:
2001-08-31
Overview: Yuji is an engaged businessman, who decides to grope Asuka, a pretty young girl, on a busy Tokyo commuter train. The cheap thrill turns expensive as Yuji discovers she took this opportunity to steal his wallet. Later on, Asuka finds Yuji and approaches him with an indecent partnership proposal. This film is another quality installment from the Chikan Densha Groper Train series – the longest running film series in the world. (Over 500 Groper Train films have been made!)
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-08-31
Popularity:
2006-09-01
Overview: Hayato comes back to his home village after father breaks his legs and cannot walk anymore. He brings his wife Ami along with him, who had a miscarriage and has been dysfunctional and depressed ever since. Hayato hangs with his old friends and enjoys the life of the village, but Ami is a city girl and is growing lonelier. She finds comfort in the arms of Hayato's father. It's not long before everybody in the small village is aware of their relationship... except Hayato... A drama about betrayal and the illogical nature of love and happiness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-09-01
Popularity:
2005-09-27
Overview: Miki has a good job and works in an office. She's been dating Ryosuke and they're happy together... except for the fact that Miki is also in a relationship with her college professor Tanaka. Tanaka is trying to break up with Miki because of his wife, but Miki won't hear of it. Ryosuke is also unfaithful, and he has a one-night stand with Chihiro, who also has a boyfriend. The plot thickens when both girls discover they are pregnant, and don't know who to name as father. This romantic drama about relationships is proof that love can also come in squares.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-09-27
Popularity:
1997-05-31
Overview: A black clad woman murders a man that she had just met by chance through a phone sex club.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-05-31
Popularity:
1988-12-23
Overview: A teenage couple drive around improvising radio shows, following night stalkers and rapists or peeping on various sexual escapades, describing what they see in detail, feigning shock and screams as the attackers become more violent.
Genres: Crime Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-12-23
Popularity:
1998-02-27
Overview: A pale-looking man, Kazuhiko, is being questioned by the police following the extremely bloody murder of a young woman. He begins his story with the day that two sisters, Akiko and Mayuko, moved into the house across from his. After helping the pair move in, he starts talking with the younger sister, and soon they become intimate. The relationship continues for a while, but one day the sisters suddenly pack up and disappear, but not before sharing their secret with Kazuhiko. What kind of secret could have caused him to commit such a murder? Or did he?
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-02-27
Popularity:
1989-01-07
Overview: Pink film distributed by Xces / Nikkatsu.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-01-07
Popularity:
1988-05-07
Overview: A woman is raped on a crowded subway but no one reports it to the police. A TV studio exploits the incident to boost ratings. Even the reporter sent to interview the gang members who committed the crime is victimized.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-05-07
Popularity:
1990-07-20
Overview: Two sisters who used to work as call girls at a hotel. The older sister has retired and is now living happily as the wife of a police officer. The younger sister is still actively working as a call girl at a hotel. When the younger sister notices that a police investigation has befallen her, she runs away, and the older sister chases after her, and the two end up heading to their hometown on a road trip.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-07-20
Popularity:
1990-09-14
Overview: Pink film distributed by Xces / Nikkatsu.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-09-14
Popularity:
1988-07-05
Overview: An investigation into a videotape that shows the results of a brutal murder committed using a knife-equipped camera.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-07-05
Popularity:
1992-01-01
Overview: One of the notable directors of Japan's "pink films," Kazuhiro Sano helms and stars in this erotic thriller in which an isolated resort lures a host of individuals looking to fulfill their desires and sexual fantasies. Packed with extras, the video includes an interview with Sano, bios and filmographies of the cast and crew and a feature-length commentary with writer Jasper Sharp.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-01-01
Popularity:
1987-12-31
Overview: An orphaned arsonist is interrogated by a detective, revealing his story of sexual abuse and trauma.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-12-31
Popularity:
1992-07-11
Overview: The wife's older sister, a former high school teacher, moves in with a couple who are living an ordinary life. Eventually, the sister's lover, who was supposed to be dead, appears... Loosely based on "A Streetcar Named Desire."
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-07-11
Popularity:
1990-06-23
Overview: Rie, who moved to Tokyo from a rural mining town and is penniless after being cheated by her boyfriend, enters the world of underground wrestling by chance. This is a ridiculous ensemble drama inspired by Shinji Somai's "Luminous Woman" and incorporating the setting of "Tomorrow's Joe" (Ashita no Joe). Starring Aya Mizutorigawa, an idol of the pink film industry at the time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-06-23
Popularity:
1994-03-04
Overview: A man with a troubled past including incest with a younger sister and the murder of a woman travels to an isolated countryside town in Nagano. There a local who mistakes him for a famous television actor shows him the town's sites, including a strip bar in which the performers remove Heian era costumes. The film's narrative is in an allegorical and disjointed manner with references to Buddhist concepts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-03-04
Popularity:
1993-08-21
Overview: Subaru is investigating the death of of a enemy, Kaneyama but before he died, he undertook a project, which was how to teach seven teenage girls how to use black magic to get revenge on people they don't like, but when one of the girls feels remorse, she is told by the other girls to continue with the black magic. Subaru tries to stop them but the girls think that he is their enemy and put a curse on him.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-08-21
Popularity:
2012-03-22
Overview: High school student Tomoyuki (Hoshi Ishida), his father (Kazuhiro Sano), and Yuki (Miwako Wagatsuma), a girl that Tomyuki likes, gather together as a family and performs road shows out of their truck. A sense of loss, farewells, and relations are all brought out.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-03-22
Popularity:
1991-11-22
Overview: This deliriously warped S&M softcore film from cult pinku-eiga director Hisayasu Sato deals with a deranged doctor who lives in an abandoned hospital with his wheelchair-bound daughter. Frustrated by normal women's perceived imperfections, the doctor kidnaps them and subjects them to sadistic tortures to turn them into subservient women for his childlike daughter to play with.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-11-22
Popularity:
1990-02-09
Overview: Tired of the belligerence and bad manners of a female customer, two shop owners kidnap her and subject her to a series of sexual assaults and tortures with utensils from the shop.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-02-09
Popularity:
1990-04-20
Overview: A detective is hired to locate a model's rapist.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-04-20
Popularity:
2016-04-09
Overview: Nagano has had a sickness of the heart for 40 years and has been hospitalized at the mental hospital in Fukushima. However, during the evacuation when the Great East Japan Earthquake hit on March 11, 2011, knowing that he’s already completely healed, he makes his way back out to into the world. Having been hospitalized from when he was in his teens until his fifties, his story is like that of Urashima Taro, the Japanese fisherman who went beneath the sea as a young man and returned to an unfamiliar world. However, his heart from long ago is for the first time full of feelings to meet the woman he loved. Before long, Nagano learns that the woman has taken refuge in Tokyo and lives with her son and his wife, and sets out on a bike headed for Tokyo.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-04-09
Popularity:
1996-11-22
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-11-22
Popularity:
1990-06-03
Overview: Tsuda, a former Self Defense Force officer who now works as an entertainment agency, is asked by his former boss to investigate a man named Hiraoka. Hiraoka is connected to a case in which a former worker at a nuclear power plant was found drowned. Behind the request lies a great conspiracy concerning the shameful side of the political world...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-06-03
Popularity:
1991-05-18
Overview: Parisian Rita Kato follows a letter from her friend Masao Sato to Tokyo, but discovers that a new tenant is already living at the sender's address, the slacker Takeshi, called Golgo after the contract killer protagonist from Takao Saitō's long-lived manga series Golgo 13. Apathetically, the two squats on each other for a few days until Rita sets off again and is bagged on the way back by the petty criminal Kiyomi in a stolen car. In the Tokyo swampland, the two meet Golgo again...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-05-18
Popularity:
1992-10-10
Overview: A lesbian teacher (Kanako Kishi) comes to Tokyo in search of her student (Ichiko Kamata), who has dropped out of high school and started living with a bomb-making terrorist (Takeshi Ito).
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-10-10
Popularity:
1992-11-28
Overview: A former Self-Defense Force officer who returns to his hometown with his comrades to fight for his life. A woman who comes to trace the trail of her husband, who has been missing for seven years. A woman who wants something stimulating in her boring village. A man and his daughter who left his wife without giving a reason and drifted to a fishing village in the north to live in seclusion. The lives of these five people intersect for a moment and are eventually dismantled again.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-11-28
Popularity:
1993-11-19
Overview: The film depicts Nagatoshi, a monk, who is mistaken for the reincarnation of a hero in a small mountain village who looks exactly like him, and who rebels against the government together with the farmers. Unlike its predecessor, which was a period drama in style, this film is more contemporary, incorporating issues such as corruption at a general contractor. The dynamism of the farmers' revolt, with its mass mobilization of extras, is also a highlight of the film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-11-19
Popularity:
1993-03-18
Overview: The story is about Nagatoshi, a handsome and sexy monk played by Kazuhiro Sano, who is struggling for the widow he loves. Foreshadowing the prophecy of the Great Kanto Earthquake, the film is a highly entertaining theatrical spectacle that depicts the human condition of a downtown area undergoing development and the efforts of men and women who rebel against it.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-03-18
Popularity:
1999-03-25
Overview: Ito, a film director with no money and no woman, is agonizing every night over a violent love affair he hears from a neighbor who has recently moved in. One day, his neighbor, Honda, comes to visit Ito. He had apparently eloped with the daughter of a yakuza and was asking Ito to hide her for him. Ito tried to say no to the dangerous offer, but the 300,000 yen was too much to resist, and he ended up accepting the offer...
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-03-25
Popularity:
1996-01-12
Overview: Junko, who has precognition, predicted her senior's death and disappeared from her fiancé's life. Five years later, Junko, who works in a peep-shop, reunites with Kazuki and rekindles their love, but tragedy soon ensues. Hotaru Hatsuki, one of the most popular actresses of the 1990s, gives a strong performance in this poignant tale of a woman's attempt to escape her fate.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-01-12
Popularity:
1996-07-05
Overview: Kumiko, who goes to a culture center with her husband's permission, has fallen prey to the instructor, Oikawa. Akiko, who also attends the same class, is single but also has a physical relationship with Oikawa. When Akiko finds out that Oikawa is also having an affair with Kumiko, she quits the class and starts a relationship with Kumiko's husband...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-07-05
Popularity:
2016-10-29
Overview: Mamoru Miyamoto is a book editor and his friend Masao Muraoka is a writer. Muraoka hasn't released a novel since "Aki no Riyuu." Masao has suffered from mental health issues and, because of this, his voice fails. The two men talk through written notes. It seems Mamoru believes in Masao’s talent as a writer and waits for him to write a new novel, but he also likes Masao's wife Misaki. One day, Miku, who has read Masao’s last novel “Aki no Riyuu” several times, appears in front of him. She tells him that she is so similar to the heroine of the novel and can understand his mind.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-10-29
Popularity:
2001-06-15
Overview: What lasts longer, the time before birth or the time after death? In the 1990's, Kenjo dies in a terrorist gas attack. His girlfriend Haruka is killed by a man she meets as a street prostitute. In 2002, Kenji and Haruka who should already be dead, meet again and a new story begins.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-06-15
Popularity:
1997-09-05
Overview: Schoolgirls on the verge of adulthood know that boys can be feckless and girls treacherous. Three friends gather around a Ouija board to call forth the spirit of Kokkuri. Masami has a boyfriend, Akira; Hiroko, who is nervous about the séance, wonders if she should take the plunge into sex; Mio is haunted by her mother's suicide. She also has a secret life as the voice of a midnight talk show host, the sexually-charged Midori. Mio must explore her past and her new feelings. Can she hold off the power and predictions of Kokkuri to enter adulthood, or will the destructive and romantic side of teen spirit be too powerful?
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-09-05
Popularity:
1999-04-16
Overview: Ayano, a young author hopes to express female erotic desires in her writings. For research, she visits public lavatories where she encounters cross-dressing men.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-04-16
Popularity:
1999-10-08
Overview: Misaki is an innocent woman whose mother is gone and her sister is disabled from a car accident. Her father sexually molests the two girls, and Misaki, her sister, and a friend turn to prostitution. It's only a matter of time before Misaki reaches breaking point.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-10-08
Popularity:
2007-10-18
Overview: Kohei and Akira are a couple running away together without a destination. They meet a geology researcher namend Shiraki on the way and the three visit a log cabin of a famous geologist Kanbe. With fortune teller Eiko, ex-girlfriend of Kanbe, joining the party, five people of diverse ages, sexes, statutes, and professions happen to spend a night together in the log cabin deep in the mountains. As the strangers get to know each other and grow closer, each one of their hidden pasts is brought to light. Meanwhile, following a thunderstorm and an earthquake, something even worse is approaching them...
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-10-18
Popularity:
2008-12-10
Overview: Mari's quiet everyday life falls apart when she meets a mysterious boy. Her uncle returns after a long absence and tells her that earth is under alien control and that Mari is half human and half alien, while the strange boy confesses that he is trying to escape because he has stolen the key to liberate human beings from Mari's alien uncle. Mari, who only half believes their stories, meets her sister though she is not supposed to have one. Where is Mari heading for in her upside-down life?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-12-10
Popularity:
2013-07-01
Overview: Random street attacks have been occurring in a local industrial city. No similarities among the victims, no clues for a motive or the culprit's next move except for sightings of a large figure in a raincoat. On her way home, Nami encounters an attack in progess. She sees the killer eye to eye and is attacked. Tsukishima saves her in a nick of time which brings them closer. In the same city, Detective Shintaro Matsuyama is after the killer responsible for the attacks. He sees a similarity to an unsolved street attack in which his daughter was killer 15 years ago. The city becomes depressed as people are afraid of the attacks and those who try to bring justice. Nami's life grows gloomy along with her symptoms of PTSD, despite falling for Tsukishima. Then she discovers his past. Shintaro becomes emotional with revenge and begins to derail from his police work. The killer is on the loose again.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-07-01
Popularity:
2000-10-20
Overview: This gender-swapped take on the horrific murder case of Junko Furuta shows how Jun Furuta's father tracks down the juveniles who murdered his son to find out why his son had to die and to exact his revenge.
Genres: Horror Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-10-20
Popularity:
1986-01-18
Overview: Night. Mayumi Kurioka is a nurse. Today is the night shift. As she is patrolling the hallway after the lights are turned off, a man in black stockings suddenly appears, abducts Mayumi, and takes her away in a car...! When she comes to, she is tackled by two men...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-01-18
Popularity:
1979-04-21
Overview: Matsui's debut film, "Rusty Empty Can" (1979), was photographed by Sogo Ishii; nonetheless the film turned out to be a serious and emotionally painful one unlike Ishii's speedy roller-coaster movies. The film which depicts a homosexual relationship was successful at the many film festival held in Japan, including selection at the 1979 Pia Film Festival. "Rusty Empty Can" is still shown at theatres today as it has become the pioneer of cult movies with devoted fans and approval from Nagisa Oshima and Shuji Terayama.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-04-21
Popularity:
1994-07-01
Overview: There was a man, a novelist, who had unavoidably turned his hand to sensual novels for a living, but now made a living out of it. One morning while jogging, he picks up a lighter and cigarettes dropped by a bookstore owner, and decides to deliver them to the store. When there is no answer to the doorbell, he goes to the back of the store and looks in the slightly open window to find the owner tying up a female clerk and engaging in SM play.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-07-01
Popularity:
1991-06-29
Overview: A sequel to "Destroy the Evil", it follows the protagonist of the previous film, who is pursued by the yakuza and moves to a rural town in Chiba. The story concludes with a tragic ending, but as the title "Keep running, keep running!" At the end of the film, there is an image shot of the protagonists who continue to run, as the title suggests, and this is a strong statement to the director himself and to the audience.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-06-29
Popularity:
1982-01-01
Overview: After appearing in independent films by Matsui Yoshihiko and Ishii Sogo, Sano directed this independent film himself. Although this is his first film as a director, he has already established his own style of acting by playing the role of the main character, a young man with a lonely life and a gun in his hand. The film was selected for the Pia Film Festival in 1983 and was exhibited at the Edinburgh Film Festival, Antwerp Film Festival, and other film festivals overseas. This is the origin of Sano's hard and sad films.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-01-01
Popularity:
1990-10-06
Overview: Shinji, who has been writing a screenplay that is not going to be made into a movie, has a girlfriend who is a model. One day Shinji receives a call from the husband of his old lover Yoko, and goes to see her. When he meets Yoko again after five years, he cannot resist embracing her. A sensual film of love and jealousy, directed by and starring Kazuhiro Sano.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-10-06
Popularity:
1989-11-11
Overview: Sho is a loner who works at a small factory. He has no friends, hardly associates with his work-mates and is regarded as a weirdo because of his love for gun models. One day he buys a real gun from a local yakuza. This boosts his self-confidence and he overcomes his insecurities and presents a bouquet of flowers to Eiko, who lives in a classy apartment and with whom he had fallen in love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-11-11
Popularity:
1991-02-02
Overview:
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-02-02
Popularity:
1990-03-03
Overview: The story centers on a gangster living in the city and the woman who lives with him, the people they meet, and the incidents they become involved in. The entire film has a whiff of American New Cinema, while the outlaw-like protagonist played by Kazuhiro Sano is reminiscent of the chivalrous films of the past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-03-03
Popularity:
1986-08-01
Overview: Kazuhiro's second self produced offering. He himself played lead role.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-08-01
Popularity:
1996-06-07
Overview:
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-06-07
Popularity:
1993-03-08
Overview: The film begins with a young man running while muttering over and over again, "Don't-" (Don't let it bring you down), the title of the film. These words are also a passionate message to the audience. A man and a woman, one chasing the other and the other being chased, a young man with a dream to make a film and the other with no time left. The love, desire, and fate of these people are depicted in this bold story. The final scene with "Love Me Tender" in the background is very moving.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-03-08
Popularity:
1993-05-28
Overview: A mother, daughter, and their fiancé are enjoying a vacation at a villa near the ocean when suddenly a trio of people - a middle-aged man, a woman, and a young man - break in. Three outsiders and three ordinary people feel what it means to "live" through abnormal behavior. All of them are antisocial. Although the outlaws seem to be repeating antisocial acts, the film makes you feel the emptiness of such acts and the director's appeal to call it a "comedy".
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-05-28
Popularity:
1986-03-01
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-03-01
Popularity:
1991-11-23
Overview:
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-11-23
Popularity:
1991-08-31
Overview: After his wife and child committed suicide, Sasaki was so shocked that he quit his job and has been living a modest life painting. Then, by chance, he meets up with an old colleague and heads to the home of his colleague's wife, Sachiko, who is waiting for him. In fact, Sachiko and Sasaki have been having an affair for a long time, and that day they have sex next to their colleague as he sleeps. Sasaki also begins to have a physical relationship with Sachiko's younger sister.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-08-31
Popularity:
1980-11-01
Overview: When the '70s ended the anger of young people rose, differences in social values occurred between adults and young people, and the word "generation" began to be widespread among the young people.,The film depicts a group of young men and women who are forced to flee their homes after committing a murder. The screenplay is written by Wataru Hino (a pseudonym of Atsushi Yamatoya), wherein he asks whether these young people are sick or sensible.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-11-01
Popularity:
1989-06-24
Overview: Three bad high school students who are preparing for the graduation ceremony are caught up in a battle with Yakuza after encountering a Korean in Japan and Yuki Yappa who has been married to him. A youth adventure drama with a powerful depiction of "Japan" and "Asia" that emerges from various nationalities.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-06-24
Popularity:
1981-10-30
Overview: Pig Chicken Suicide is a veritable assault on the senses, mixing violent images of animal slaughter, racial strife, and surrealism to tell the story of two Koreans living in Japan whose love is destroyed due to overwhelming racial discrimination. In explicit abattoir photos and much symbolism, Matsui tells about the struggles of ethnic Koreans in Japan. A butcher's love affair and his relationship with the animals he kills frame the story.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-10-30
Popularity:
2002-02-27
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-02-27
Popularity:
2007-04-27
Overview: Older brother Kenichi and younger brother Takashi had not seen each other for a while, but they meet at their estranged father's funeral. The father had moved to a small town and remarried and has a daughter, who is supposed to be their half-sister. Her whereabouts are unknown, as she left home at a very young age. One of the brothers mistakenly meets her, under very strange and disturbing circumstances...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-04-27
Popularity:
2006-10-27
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-10-27
Popularity:
1994-09-30
Overview: A harsh youth film reminiscent of "The Last Picture Show." The last scene is the best. masterpiece.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-09-30
Popularity:
1988-06-01
Overview: A girl who dreams of herself being molested realizes the intense desire that lies dormant in her through hypnotherapy... The desire that has been awakened is unstoppable.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-06-01
Popularity:
1986-05-01
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-05-01
Popularity:
1992-08-08
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-08-08
Popularity:
2008-03-01
Overview: Akira Tachibana who work at Kinoshita foundry can not love other people because of the trauma he suffered by being molested by his manager Kinoshita, who have both been like a father to Akira since he was little. Akira has lived a meaningless life. One day, when Akira driving his motorcycle, he meets a woman dressed in a red dress in a tunnel. He takes back the unconscious woman to his apartment and takes care of her, but when she wakes up, she walks away from his place without a word. This is the moment Akira meets Kaori Yamamoto.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-03-01
Popularity:
1992-03-13
Overview: The president of an advertising company who divorced his business partner molested a woman on a train, who turned out to be their new client. She becomes physically involved with the president and is proposed to, but then changes her mind after consulting with his ex-partner directly.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-03-13
Popularity:
1992-09-18
Overview: A married couple who enjoy an exciting sex life together. Their favorite part is molestation play on the commuter train. This morning, the husband molested the wife, and the wife was satisfied, and in return, the wife became a slut and made her husband ascend to heaven. Although the couple's relationship is harmonious, the husband and wife are looking for a stronger thrill, and they are also enjoying their sex life with their lovers. The wife's lover is the boss of the company where she is dispatched. However, this boss has a perverted habit and his demands escalate. Then one day, he realizes that she likes to be molested on the train, and takes her into a crowded train. The wife accepts the fingers of someone other than her husband for the first time on the train...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-09-18
Popularity:
2008-11-14
Overview: Tomomi moved from Osaka to Tokyo to study at a video school, but instead she became a hostess at a cabaret club continuing her relationship with her unemployed gigolo boyfriend Akira. One day, she received a call from her mother Tatsuko, who lives in Osaka. Her divorced father Rokuzo was released from prison after six months and was heading to Tokyo. After being released, he visited Tatsuko and declared that he would start afresh in Tokyo opening a takoyaki shop. Rokuzo broke into Tomomi apartment while she was out and found her club. Tomomi couldn't hide her surprise when her father came as a customer. Rokuzo hits it off with Erika, the number one at the club, and spends the night at her apartment. The next day, Rokuzo goes to the motorboat racetrack to raise funds to open a takoyaki shop and asks Tomomi to lend him some money, but she refuses. Meanwhile, Tatsuko becomes immersed in the world of SM with Tsutomu, a customer at the bar and decides to remarry...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-11-14
Popularity: