Moeko Ezawa
Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: March 28, 1939
Deathday: December 26, 2022
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Known For
Debt King Part VII: Millennium
2000-07-22
Debt King Part VII: Millennium
Overview: Takao, the owner of a coffee shop and brother-in-law to Anzai, the assistant manager of Hikari Bank, Osaka central branch, is caught in a scam by an online financial service.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-07-22
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Ghost Pub
1994-10-29
Ghost Pub
Overview: One night, as pub owner Sotaro is caring for his sick wife, Shizuko, she asks him to promise that if she dies, he will never remarry. Thinking she is just being dramatic, he promises and tells her to go to sleep. When he wakes the next morning, however, Shizuko is dead. Sotaro keeps his promise, until one day he meets Satoko. The two quickly fall in love, and agree to get married. Their first night together, however, is interrupted by Shizuko, who is angry over her husband's broken promise. Sotaro and Satoko must find some way of appeasing the spirit before she drives them from their home.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-10-29
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A Tender Place
2001-07-14
A Tender Place
Overview: Kasumi is in the midst of an affair with Ishiyama, one of her husband's clients. When Kasumi and her family visit Ishiyama's villa in Hokkaido, she plans to abandon them to be with Ishiyama. The next morning, her daughter Yuka disappears, which throws Kasumi's life into turmoil. Years later, Yuka remains missing, and Kasumi journeys back to Hokkaido with Utsumi, a terminally-ill former detective, and tries to follow any leads she can.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-07-14
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Never Give Up
1978-10-07
Never Give Up
Overview: Special forces officer Ajisawa leaves his paramilitary group to take care of his newly-adopted daughter, Yoriko: the sole survival of a bloodbath for which he is responsible. Years later, Ajisawa is forced to return to the scene of the tragedy for his new job as a claims adjuster where he is subsequently arrested for his suspected involvement. But the threat of jail time is the least of his worries as his former organization comes gunning for him.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-10-07
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Monster Cat Saga Riot
1981-08-28
Monster Cat Saga Riot
Overview: A big deal that shakes up the Saga domain of 350,000 koku. A plot for power, the end of the desires of men and women, and a daughter's pet cat, which meets a tragic end, turns into a monster cat and takes out the grudge of its master.
Genres: Drama Horror TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-08-28
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Hana
2006-06-03
Hana
Overview: In a poor district of Edo lives a young samurai named Soza. He has been sent by his clan to avenge the death of his father. He isn't an accomplished swordsman however, and he prefers sharing the life of the residents, teaching the kids how to write etc. When he finally finds the man he is looking for, he will have to decide whether he follows the way of the samurai or chooses peace and reconciliation.
Genres: Action Drama History Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-06-03
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Yanmama Trucker Hiryuden
1999-07-22
Yanmama Trucker Hiryuden
Overview: Girlboss trucker film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-07-22
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The Love Potion
1973-04-25
The Love Potion
Overview: Nikkatsu Roman Porno, the second entry in the Maruhi Oo'oku Gaiden series. Recieving a mysterious foreign love potion, the Shogun's harem (or Oo'oku) becomes disordered; meanwhile a famous woman attempts to enter and seek revenge in the disguise of a male monk.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-04-25
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King of Sha-kin 4
1998-07-04
King of Sha-kin 4
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-07-04
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Excitement Class: Love Techniques
1972-11-08
Excitement Class: Love Techniques
Overview: Tormented by his first sexual stirrings, the teenager Isao dreams every night of his gym teacher Ikuko. He finally opens her heart but she rejects his advances. Frustrated, Isao invents all sorts of stratagies to disgust Ikuko´s fiance, a professor of chemistry in the same school. As his plan fails, he plans a radical solution...and the results turns out to be...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-11-08
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Getting Any?
1995-02-11
Getting Any?
Overview: While pursuing his dream of having car sex, a goofy middle-aged man makes all the wrong moves and ends up enrolling in a number of crazy escapades.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-02-11
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Sakuya: The Slayer of Demons
2000-12-08
Sakuya: The Slayer of Demons
Overview: The eruption of Mt. Fuji in 1707 released hordes of demons from deep inside the earth. Sakuya, the young daughter of a samurai killed fighting these demons, accepts a mission to travel to Mt. Fuji and defeat the evil spirits. Accompanying her on her journey are two veteran warriors who served her father, and Tarō, a young kappa, or river spirit, whom she has adopted as her little brother. Along the way, the two warriors have doubts about Tarō’s loyalties, and the young kappa himself must decide if he will stand with his own species or with the humans who have cared for him.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-12-08
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To Love
1997-10-04
To Love
Overview: Mitsu works in a factory and has a crush on Tsutomu, a young man she met on the Tokyo streets. One day the two go out, and after some deception, Tsutomu manages to have his way with her. Coming from a broken home, he is frightened by love, so he cruelly allows her to wake up alone. A month passes and a more grown-up Tsutomu returns. The lovers joyously reunite and move in together. All is blissful until both notice a strange sore on Mitsu's arm. The doctors diagnose it as leprosy. Without telling Tsutomu, Mitsu checks into a leper sanitarium. Hanging out with society's pariahs gives her much insight. She discovers the old lepers to be wonderful people. In turn, Mitsu becomes their source of joy and renewed hope. Still, she misses her Tsutomu. One day, the doctors inform her that they erred and that the sore is not leprosy. Happily she heads back to her true love until she realizes with a guilty pang that to return to him would mean unhappiness for her newfound friends
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-10-04
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Newlywed Hell
1975-12-06
Newlywed Hell
Overview: Yuki returns to her hometown after several years. She has been away ever since the tragic events surrounding her abusive older husband. While in town she barely escapes the sexual advances of an old friend and accidentally comes across a scene that repels and excites her. Through an open doorway she spies a woman bound with rope. Thus begins her descent into the world of submission and pleasure.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-12-06
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Woods Are Wet
1973-05-23
Woods Are Wet
Overview: Sachiko has just committed a crime. She is helped by a couple to whom she grants her confidence. Quickly this couple blackmails her and threatens to deliver her to the police. Sachiko has no other choice but to obey them.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-05-23
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Prostitution Gang
1997-08-13
Prostitution Gang
Overview: With a title like that... you just have to watch it.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-08-13
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Joseito
1979-01-20
Joseito
Overview: An obscure Nikkatsu Roman Porno movie.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-01-20
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G.I. Samurai
1979-09-17
G.I. Samurai
Overview: A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their country's warring states era, when rival samurai clans were battling to become the supreme Shogun.
Genres: Action Science Fiction War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-09-17
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Female Teacher: Secret
1978-10-21
Female Teacher: Secret
Overview: A male high school student becomes obsessed with his teacher and uses various schemes including exposing her philandering husband to have sex with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-10-21
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Tokyo Secret Hotel: Beast's Play
1976-10-20
Tokyo Secret Hotel: Beast's Play
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-10-20
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The Woman with Red Hair
1979-02-17
The Woman with Red Hair
Overview: Junko Miyashita plays a mysterious hitchhiker picked up by a brute of a construction worker named Kenzo who takes her back to his run-down and cramped apartment in a not so good part of town. Claiming that she is running away from an abusive husband, she shacks up with him. In a futile attempt to escape the bleak working class surroundings, the pair engage in an obsessive erotic relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-02-17
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The World of Geisha
1973-11-03
The World of Geisha
Overview: The world is in turmoil with the October Revolution of 1917, riots over the inflationary price of rice, and the military expedition to Siberia in 1918. But Shinsuke, a brothel owner, spends his days in the arms of geishas, paying little heed to the events happening around him.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-11-03
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Lovers Are Wet
1973-03-24
Lovers Are Wet
Overview: A young man named Katsu comes to a rural town by the sea, and begins to work as a movie reel carrier in a movie theater. Apparently this town is the hometown of Katsu, but no matter how many residents of the town ask, "Is it Katsu?" he just laughs. The wife of the cinema owner that has become involved with Katsu is interested in his past ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-03-24
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The Hell-Fated Courtesan
1973-04-14
The Hell-Fated Courtesan
Overview: The story of a courtesan that was once popular in Yoshiwara. She is good-looking, but for some reason, three of her customers died unnaturally, one after another. As a result, she is feared by potential customers, and no one cares for her...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-04-14
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Melancholy Flesh Business: Sensuous Zone
1972-09-06
Melancholy Flesh Business: Sensuous Zone
Overview: Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-09-06
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Secret Chronicle: She Beast Market
1974-09-11
Secret Chronicle: She Beast Market
Overview: In an endless cycle a daughter born of a prostitute takes up her mother’s trade among the pimps, the working poor and dilapidated slums.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-09-11
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Ronin-gai
1990-08-18
Ronin-gai
Overview: Near the end of Japanese civil war, several disgraced ronin living in Edo's red light district attempt to regain their honor by defending a brothel from a hostile militia bent on wiping out local prostitutes.
Genres: History Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-08-18
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All Under the Moon
1993-11-06
All Under the Moon
Overview: A Korean taxi-driver interacts both humorously and tragically with his customers and employers in '90s Tokyo.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-11-06
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Red Light District: Gonna Get Out
1974-09-21
Red Light District: Gonna Get Out
Overview: It's the evening before the day all brothels must be shut-down, according to the new law, in 1958. At the Kofukuya's (literally, the house that sells happiness), five prostitutes decide to celebrate the day. Eroticism, drama, and comedy mix as each hour a different event passes, in which all the women's stories come to the surface.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-09-21
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That's Roman Porno: Smile of Goddesses
1988-06-11
That's Roman Porno: Smile of Goddesses
Overview: A documentary compilation that shows various clips from the Roman Porno series of movies from 1971 to 1988.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-06-11
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Sunday's Dream
2005-10-22
Sunday's Dream
Overview: Kazuya goes to live with his mother Shinobu because his father, Yoshiki, who works in the same company, has fired him according to the company policy regarding redundancy. However, Shinobu soon gets remarried to Sakamoto depriving Kazuya of a place to stay. He then meets Sachiko who works in a salon where sexual pleasure is offered to men. They promise to have a date on the next Sunday by the sea.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-10-22
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Wet Lips
1972-01-29
Wet Lips
Overview: A prostitute and her lover go on the run after killing her pimp.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-01-29
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Crazy Season
1973-12-26
Crazy Season
Overview: Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-12-26
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Trapped in Lust
1973-12-15
Trapped in Lust
Overview: A hitman messes up an assassination and so becomes the next target of his organization.
Genres: Drama Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-12-15
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Apartment Wife: Scent of a Woman
1973-04-14
Apartment Wife: Scent of a Woman
Overview: A female high school teacher suffers from amnesia after being attacked by several men. She is married and has a happy family life, but an incident from the past haunts her regardless of her memory loss.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-04-14
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A Rainy Night Affair
1973-05-23
A Rainy Night Affair
Overview: Pinku from 1973.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-05-23
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The Key
1974-05-04
The Key
Overview: A college professor wants to bring the joys of sex to his frigid wife. He convinces his son in law to sleep with her because the idea arouses him, while also making him insanely jealous. The professor keeps a journal of his fantasies in a locked cupboard and hopes that his wife will find the key and read it.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-05-04
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The World of Geisha 2 – The Precocious Lad
1974-02-16
The World of Geisha 2 – The Precocious Lad
Overview: Shotaro, a young man who was kidnapped as a baby by a prostitute, lives and entertains in a seaside brothel. He often has to spend the night in the same room with other geishas when a rich patron takes over his room to be entertained by his favorite mistress. There he learns more about sex than many adults. So his adventures begin with both women and men.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-02-16
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Damp Bank Notes
1974-02-06
Damp Bank Notes
Overview: The dull and disappointing life of an office lady is enlivened when she meets hot younger lover. But in order to keep him and feed his gambling obsession she resorts to crime.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-02-06
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Apartment Wife: Afternoon Seduction
1974-01-15
Apartment Wife: Afternoon Seduction
Overview: A wife who suspects her husband of infidelity hires an investigator. But it turns out he has his own kinky secrets.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-01-15
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Wet Lust: 21 Strippers
1974-01-03
Wet Lust: 21 Strippers
Overview: Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-01-03
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Green Lovers
1975-06-21
Green Lovers
Overview: Pinku from 1975.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-06-21
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Housewife's Experience: New Tenement Apartment
1975-12-24
Housewife's Experience: New Tenement Apartment
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-12-24
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Great Edo: Secret Story of a Female Doctor in Trouble
1975-10-18
Great Edo: Secret Story of a Female Doctor in Trouble
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-10-18
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Housewife's Experience: Tenement Apartment 2
1975-07-23
Housewife's Experience: Tenement Apartment 2
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-07-23
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Akasen Honmoku chabuya no onna
1975-01-25
Akasen Honmoku chabuya no onna
Overview: Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-01-25
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Housewife's Experience: Tenement
1975-04-26
Housewife's Experience: Tenement
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-04-26
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I Am 18 Years Old: Secret Story of a Mistress
1976-05-29
I Am 18 Years Old: Secret Story of a Mistress
Overview: A sailor has an affair with a teenager mistakenly thinking she’s a prostitute.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-05-29
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My Way
1974-09-07
My Way
Overview: Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband's dead body, fighting government bureaucracy and indifference all along the way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-09-07
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Blue Rain Osaka
1983-07-08
Blue Rain Osaka
Overview: A woman who runs a bar with her older sister has her life disrupted when she has a chance meeting with an old lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-07-08
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Office Lady Diary: Affair of a She-Cat
1972-12-16
Office Lady Diary: Affair of a She-Cat
Overview: A diary of an office lady.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-12-16
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A Ghost Love Story of Japan
1982-08-13
A Ghost Love Story of Japan
Overview: A daughter of Hatamoto (high-ranked soldier) Otsuyu (Akiko Kana) and a Ronin living in Choya (cheap apartment) Shinzaburo Hagihara (Yoichi Hayashi) fell in love with each other. They could not see each other for a while, but Otsuyu visited Shinzaburo's place late at night, led by a servant Oyone (Shoko Yagi). Tomorrow night and next night as well.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-08-13
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Pretty Woman
2003-05-09
Pretty Woman
Overview: Elderly ladies rise to the challenge of staging a play and struggle to launch a theater company. Based on the actual amateur theater company "Theatrical Company Hono" in Fujieda City, Shizuoka Prefecture, where the presiding officers and performers are composed of elderly women. They have been performing stage plays about issues related to the elderly for a long time.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-05-09
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True Record: The Life of Masahisa Takenaka Raging Lion Second Part
2003-04-25
True Record: The Life of Masahisa Takenaka Raging Lion Second Part
Overview: The second half of the true story of Masahisa Takenaka, 4th kumicho of the Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan’s largest yakuza gang
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-04-25
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Asian Blue: Ukishima-maru Incident
1995-09-02
Asian Blue: Ukishima-maru Incident
Overview: Asian Blue focuses on Koreans brought to Japan to work in forced-labor brigades during World War II
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-09-02
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Apartment Wife: Violated Skin
1977-11-26
Apartment Wife: Violated Skin
Overview: A nightmare that suddenly attacks an ordinary housewife: rape. However, the real nightmare was the threat that began because the information was being wiretapped. And the housewife uses her own body as a weapon to confront her blackmailer, but...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-11-26
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Junko's Bliss
1978-03-04
Junko's Bliss
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-03-04
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Men and War III: The Final Chapter
1973-08-11
Men and War III: The Final Chapter
Overview: Final part of epic drama about war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family through the Sino-Japanese War through the Soviet Union's sudden attack upon Japanese troops at the end of the war.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-08-11
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High School Erotopia: Red Uniforms
1979-05-19
High School Erotopia: Red Uniforms
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-05-19
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Zeccho shimai ochiru
1982-10-15
Zeccho shimai ochiru
Overview: Mika, who used to be a call girl, is being pursued by a man that brokers prostitution. Her mother Yoshimi and older sister Mayumi also sold their bodies. But now, Mayumi will marry Soejima, a trading company man. Mika is happy to have a respectable relative and starts a part-time job at a pachinko parlor...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-10-15
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Puppets Under Starry Skies
1978-01-21
Puppets Under Starry Skies
Overview: A young Japanese man finds himself in the company of a strange, effeminate gay man and a girl with a seedy sexual history and who even now is pregnant again. They share a predisposition for drug use and spend time together in an old house. He refuses the advances of the gay man, who then commits suicide. When a gang administers a beating to him, his father re-enters the scene and takes him home, along with the girl. However, the girl has decided to have her baby, and she goes to live with its father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-01-21
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Faraway Heaven
2008-11-08
Faraway Heaven
Overview: Chizuru, a typical Japanese young female office worker, is socially clumsy, poor at romance and unhappy with her job. Being weary from a busy and stressful city life, she seriously desires to end her life somewhere faraway from the city and leaves for deep in the mountains, where she finds one lonely house. Then she attempts to commit suicide by taking sleeping pills in the guest house but she fails.... This is the beginning of her new life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-11-08
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Wild Berries
2003-09-06
Wild Berries
Overview: A portrait of an ordinary family that turns unstable when their frivolous son Shuji returns home after a long absence.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-09-06
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Young Thugs: Innocent Blood
1997-06-21
Young Thugs: Innocent Blood
Overview: Young Thugs: Innocent Blood follows three friends through their first year after leaving high school. Having robbed their teacher on their last day, Ryoko gets a job in a hair salon, while the two boys settle down into a career of enforcement and protection.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-06-21
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The Happiness of the Katakuris
2002-02-23
The Happiness of the Katakuris
Overview: The Katakuri family has just opened their guest house in the mountains. Unfortunately their first guest commits suicide and in order to avoid trouble they decide to bury him in the backyard. Things get way more complicated when their second guest, a famous sumo wrestler, dies while having sex with his underage girlfriend and the grave behind the house starts to fill up more and more.
Genres: Comedy Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-02-23
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Yakuza Ladies
1986-11-15
Yakuza Ladies
Overview: While her husband is in prison doing time, Tamaki, the wife of a yakuza capo, runs her spouse’s gang with an iron hand. Meanwhile, Makoto, her younger sister, marries a member of a rival band after being raped by him. The two sisters, united by blood ties but married to enemy yakuzas, will ultimately have to decide whose side they’re on.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-11-15
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Ichijo's Wet Lust
1972-10-07
Ichijo's Wet Lust
Overview: Ichijo Sayuri, once the legendary queen of Osaka strippers, has retired to run a sushi shop. She is awaiting her day in court after having been arrested for indecency at her farewell performance. While she was active, she was both the rival and the model for many young strippers. Harumi was one of them. Ichijo Sayuri was the real-life queen of Osaka strippers who was arrested on her final performance.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-10-07
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Soft Skin
1998-01-31
Soft Skin
Overview: Minako, a Tokyo housewife, is depressed that everyone has an active life outside the home except her. Taking her inspiration from TV reports of a hitch-hiking chainsaw murderer, Minako decides to spice up her life by finding a young lover and running off with him by faking her kidnapping. While her family frets and worries, Minako has a wonderful time. Eventually, though, she decides it's time to go back to her family. Her lover, however, isn't ready for the fun to end, and Minako's fake kidnapping soon becomes all too real.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-01-31
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The Shogunate's Harem
1986-06-14
The Shogunate's Harem
Overview: A new shogun is appointed to the throne when his brother dies. He find out that the former Shogun one of the women from his brothers harem became pregnant, but she escaped. The new Shogun would loose the throne if the child is a boy. Genshiro is doctor who, among other things, performs abortions, and is sheltering his love, another women who escaped from the harem. The new Shogun threatens to arrest the girl unless Genshiro hunts down the woman and aborts her child. Genshiro learns that the woman releases a "musky scent from her special area" when in ecstasy. Both Genshiro and his friend set out to find all the women of the former harem and have sex with them, by force if necessary.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-06-14
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Golden Flower: What Is Hidden Is the True Flower, What Is Gone Is the Butterfly
2009-11-21
Golden Flower: What Is Hidden Is the True Flower, What Is Gone Is the Butterfly
Overview: Nursing home "Yuyoso". Many lonely old people live there, including botanist Taro Makiso, a physicist, an actor, a bar mom, and a chef. Maki has spent most of his life studying botany, and has lived without regard for entertainment, drinking, women, or everything else in the world. Then came my 80th birthday. He and a young staff member go digging for wild yam and find a mysterious golden flower. It was the flower of immortality, the "Golden Flower", which was said to bloom beside the Himalayan Virgin, which he had been looking for for many years. From that day onwards, fragments of memories from his youth, which he had intentionally sealed off in order to immerse himself in botany, surged into Maki in a whirlpool.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-11-21
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Ningen no sabaku
1990-04-28
Ningen no sabaku
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-04-28
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Heisei Irresponsible Family: Tokyo de Luxe
1995-01-28
Heisei Irresponsible Family: Tokyo de Luxe
Overview: The members of the Ameya family are all scammers. After their election scheme goes bust in their hometown, they move from Shikoku to Tokyo and resume their fraudulent activities. Everything carries on smoothly until the eldest and the fourth sons' modus operandi go awry, the mother's lover runs off with another woman, and disasters strike one after another. This film is a collaboration between Yoichi Sai and Goro Kishitani following "All Under the Moon." The family business of the Ameya family is defrauding people. The matriarch, who keeps getting married and divorced, has five children with different fathers. The Ameya family chases after fortune and leaves a trail of trouble on their path.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-01-28
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Horror of the Giant Vortex
1978-08-05
Horror of the Giant Vortex
Overview: Japanese horror move from 1978.
Genres: TV Movie Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-08-05
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A Portrait of Shunkin
1976-12-25
A Portrait of Shunkin
Overview: Okoto is blind since childhood. Her young servant Sasuke is in love of her. One day Koto is badly scarred on her face. In order to preserve the memory of her once beautiful face, Sasuke takes away his own sight.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-12-25
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Fireflies: River of Light
2004-06-05
Fireflies: River of Light
Overview: After finally passing his teacher's exam, Miwa (Yukiyoshi Ozawa) devoted himself to teaching in a rustic primary school. He struggles to get through to his students, until he creates a class project to raise fireflies to fly over it once again. All students, even the reserved girl Hikari (Risako Sugaya), become passionately involved in the project. However, it brings them into conflict with parents and the school, one problem after another stands in his way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-06-05
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Outlaw Cop
1976-02-04
Outlaw Cop
Overview: A bad cop is engaged in a violent chase to catch a yakuza boss. In his absence his wife runs away with another man, who turns out to be the very same man that her husband is hunting. Once he discovers this, he loses his nerve and turns in his badge. But the chase turns into a personal vendetta where the ex-cop plans to wipe out the entire gang.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-02-04
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Village of Doom
1983-01-15
Village of Doom
Overview: An emotionally distraught young man goes on a violent killing spree after his tuberculosis keeps him from serving in World War II and is frowned upon by his fellow villagers.
Genres: Horror Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-01-15
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Yumeno Kyusaku's Girl Hell
1977-08-20
Yumeno Kyusaku's Girl Hell
Overview: In a religious school for girls the pure love between two students is torn apart by social and moral corruption.
Genres: Drama Mystery Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-08-20
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The Longest Tunnel
1982-10-16
The Longest Tunnel
Overview: After a passenger ship sinks in 1954, Go Akutsu devises a life-saving project in the form of a tunnel under the Tsugaru Strait. While working on this project Akutsu becomes involved with Tae Makimura leading to his estrangement from his wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-10-16
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Aoba gakuen monogatari
1981-04-26
Aoba gakuen monogatari
Overview: 1981 Japanese film based on the novel by Naoshiro Yoshimoto.
Genres: Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-04-26
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Rolling on the Road
1981-10-23
Rolling on the Road
Overview: George is a washed-up middle-aged punk rocker, who divorces his wife and lives with his girlfriend, a soap massage parlor worker. His life becomes even more of a mess when the nurse he raped moves in with them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-10-23
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At Noon
1978-12-29
At Noon
Overview: Tadao decides to comes back from Tokyo to live in his home town, in the countryside. He stays at his parents place and finds a job, repairing transistor and television. He catches up with his friend Tetsuji, the only that haven’t left yet. But one night, Tetsuji decides to leave for Tokyo with a bar hostess.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-12-29
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Tomorrow Evening
1977-10-29
Tomorrow Evening
Overview: Ayako is a 7-year-old girl with a dark, tanned face and a somewhat mysterious expression on her face. She shows up at the elementary school and acts strangely, but the children don't know her name and just call her "that girl". There are two groups of children at the elementary school, and the conflict between the groups intensifies...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-10-29
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Naked Rashomon
1973-07-04
Naked Rashomon
Overview: An ambitious businessman knocks up his mistress with fraternal twins. He keeps the boy but sends his bodyguard to dispose of the mother and the girl. Years later…
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-07-04
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Female Teacher
1977-10-29
Female Teacher
Overview: A female teacher is raped by a gang of students in her school. The repercussions of this lead to scandal, blackmail and murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-10-29
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Noboru Ando's Chronicle of Fugitive Days and Sex
1976-10-01
Noboru Ando's Chronicle of Fugitive Days and Sex
Overview: Ando on the run, stopping in to service all the women in his life, with a bit of the old ultra-violence.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-10-01
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Rape and Death of a Housewife
1978-07-08
Rape and Death of a Housewife
Overview: Three young boys drunkenly rape a woman named Emiko, the wife of a man they've developed a friendship with. She dies of heart failure during the attack. Her chicken farmer husband, incapable of dealing with her death tends to her corpse as though it were still alive completely unable to accept her demise.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-07-08
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The Dropout
1982-10-02
The Dropout
Overview: Detective Seiji Otaki is determined to find the psychopathic killer of a young woman who was ostensibly a student but in reality a high-priced prostitute. Even though he has been taken off the case for beating up a suspect, he refuses to let it go and recruits his mistress to act as a decoy for the killer. Her involvement turns out to be a fatal mistake, and when her husband gets out of prison, Detective Otaki is in worse trouble than ever.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-10-02
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The Killing Game
1978-12-02
The Killing Game
Overview: The second movie of Tôru Murakawa's "Game" trilogy. After making a sensational hit, a hitman has gone into hiding for five years. When he comes back he bumps into two women that he has spared five years ago. Two rival yakuza bosses hire Narumi to kill the other. Will Narumi's sense of chivalry entrap him again?
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-12-02
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The International Gang of Kobe
1975-10-14
The International Gang of Kobe
Overview: In 1947, in Kobe, Japan, a local street gang fights for their survival when its turf is overrun by United States occupation forces and international gangs.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-10-14
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Case of the Disjointed Murder
1977-03-14
Case of the Disjointed Murder
Overview: In the summer of 1947, various men and women gather at a mansion in the countryside at the invitation of Kazuma Utagawa. They are artists, novelists, poets, painters, playwrights, actresses, etc. Then the murders begin, one after another. The incident seemed to have no continuity...
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-03-14
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Light of Africa
1975-06-21
Light of Africa
Overview: Two semi-slackers with an ultra-intimate friendship work, slack and drink in a freezing Hokkaido town.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-06-21
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Yakuza Justice: Erotic Code of Honor
1973-07-14
Yakuza Justice: Erotic Code of Honor
Overview: Monk Seigen saves Misako the daughter of an area Yakuza boss from some tough guys. The two become a couple and find themselves being pursued by some criminals. Seigen plunges deeper into a life of crime and sin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-07-14
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Hell's Revenge
1979-12-22
Hell's Revenge
Overview: Kenzo, Azusa's husband, has a heart condition but his passion for sex has not diminished one iota from the time he was a virile young man. Azusa does not refuse her husband for he is very wealthy and if he should happen to die of excess sex she would inherit a vast fortune. If only Azusa could kill him without staining her own hands. Unable to do it alone, she asks the aid of Naoya who is only too glad to help.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-12-22
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Farewell to Rock'n Roll
1973-09-25
Farewell to Rock'n Roll
Overview: There is an ongoing war between two Girl Gangs, the Akabane 100 Club and the Ikebukuro Cavalry. Yukiko, the "Bankaku," or chief bodyguard of the Akabane, is released from reform school and sets about to finish an ongoing one-on-one grudge match with the Arab Falcon and the whole Cavalry gang. With a theme song by 1970s Japanese "Group Sounds" band Carol, and live performance. Rock and Sukeban unite for an extraordinary and cool piece of filmmaking.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-09-25
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Nogare no machi
1983-10-15
Nogare no machi
Overview: Based on the novel of the same name by Kenzo Kitakata.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-10-15
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Sex-Crime Coast: Piranha School
1973-08-15
Sex-Crime Coast: Piranha School
Overview: A gang of vicious thieves and rapists invades the isolated summer home of a wealthy but morally corrupt family.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-08-15
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Samurai Justice 2: Mother & Daughter
2005-01-11
Samurai Justice 2: Mother & Daughter
Overview: Master swordsman Akiyama Kohei’s simple life in retirement is jarred into violent sword action when he meets an elderly fencing instructor who may be the target of a group of thieves planning a major armed robbery. At the same time dojo master Daijiro saves the life of man who, although skilled in archery has an aversion to killing and a woman artist comes into town where she is in danger of being raped by one of the thieves. From the pen of noted author Ikenami Shotaro, creator of such classics as Bandit Ve. Samurai, Hunter In The Dark, The Last Samurai, and Hissatsu-The Professional Killers! Brilliant storytelling that leads to superb swordsmanship!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-01-11
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Girl’s Pleasure: Man Hunting
1977-05-21
Girl’s Pleasure: Man Hunting
Overview: Two high school friends. One witnesses the breakup of her family after a brutal home invasion. The other loses her virginity to an African-American soldier. Together they make a vital discovery and exact violent revenge.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-05-21
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Love and Death at Fuji Speedway
1972-12-27
Love and Death at Fuji Speedway
Overview: The movie was inspired by real life test driver Yukio Fukuzawa, who on 12 February 1969 lost control of his Toyota 7 at Fuji Speedway near Nakahinata, Japan and fatally smashed into a signpost. In the movie Kei Kiyama’s pop singer character meets Tôru Minegishi’s doomed racer when he happens along as she’s throwing her own records into the sea. From there things get even cheerier.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-12-27
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300 Million Thief Immune to Charges Begins
1975-11-22
300 Million Thief Immune to Charges Begins
Overview: In this retelling of an infamous unsolved heist, a couple tries to outlast the statute of limitations after successfully stealing 300 million yen.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-11-22
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Sometimes... Like a Prostitute
1978-09-23
Sometimes... Like a Prostitute
Overview: A man with a medical condition and a guilty past becomes obsessed with a simple minded girl he finds in a park. His wife is not thrilled when he brings her home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-09-23
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Harami: White Fear
2005-11-19
Harami: White Fear
Overview:
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-11-19
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Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and Humanity
1979-05-26
Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and Humanity
Overview: Two Kyushu based yakuza groups are desperate for domaination of the area. When more powerful yakuza groups get involved in their power struggle, a group of childhood friends, belonging to different yakuza families, are caught in the middle. Lies, deceit, and backstabbing are in play resulting in a bloodbath and a quest for revenge...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-05-26
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Kamome
2000-03-04
Kamome
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-03-04
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Rakugo musume
2008-08-23
Rakugo musume
Overview: When a gal named Kasumi decides to become a traditional Japanese 'Rakugo' storyteller due to her uncle's invalidity, she is soon on her way to a career with college-level and amateur success. She becomes a student to one of the master's of the genre and is even asked to perform by a TV producer. The only snag is, the particular story has a curse dripping from its words.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-08-23
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Juvenile Wife
1980-04-26
Juvenile Wife
Overview: A newlywed wife suffers the consequences for her husband’s actions when he cheats a customer at his credit company out of a large sum of money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-04-26
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Sachiko no sachi
1976-12-25
Sachiko no sachi
Overview: Based on the manga of the same name by Kazuo Kamimura.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-12-25
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Shinjuku Midare Machi: Ikumade Matte
1977-09-17
Shinjuku Midare Machi: Ikumade Matte
Overview: The story of a group of artistic people centred around a bar in Shinjuku.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-09-17
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Afternoon Affair: Transformation
1973-01-24
Afternoon Affair: Transformation
Overview: A young boy’s dream of a woman is entrusted to the love of a flower. When that beautiful flower withers and the boy discovers the ugliness of women’s true nature, he vows revenge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-01-24
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Preparation for the Festival
1975-11-08
Preparation for the Festival
Overview: Tateo, young and neurotic, wishes to leave the village his mother has raised him in.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-11-08
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Kagerô 2
1996-02-10
Kagerô 2
Overview: An entertainment drama depicting the conflict of yakuza, centering on the female torso and her sister's feud.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-02-10
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Dangerous Encounter
1984-06-12
Dangerous Encounter
Overview: A woman's life is irrevocably altered when a young murderer stumbles into her home.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-06-12
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Wet and Crying: Based On Aiko Nakayama's School of Widows
1977-05-21
Wet and Crying: Based On Aiko Nakayama's School of Widows
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-05-21
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Hirusagari no joji: susurinaki
1977-10-15
Hirusagari no joji: susurinaki
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-10-15
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Highway Sex: Parking Lot Woman
1974-07-06
Highway Sex: Parking Lot Woman
Overview: A young wife dabbles in casual prostitution to secretly help her older husband improve his business. But when she falls for one of her clients complications ensue.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-07-06
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The Vanished
2006-03-25
The Vanished
Overview: A young reporter is covering the mysterious case of a child found dead with missing internal organs.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-03-25
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The Tragedy of “W”
1984-12-15
The Tragedy of “W”
Overview: A young girl is striving for stardom. In order to get a lead role in a new production, she agrees to stand-in for a famous star whose rich patron died in her arms one night. The real-life drama gradually comes to mirror the story of the play being performed by her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-12-15
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Here Comes the Bride, My Mom!
2010-09-04
Here Comes the Bride, My Mom!
Overview: Tsukiko, whose father died before she was born, lives with her mother Yoko and they provide mutual support for each other. One day, Yoko comes home completely drunk with Kenji, a young man with blond hair, and tells Tsukiko, "I'm going to marry him."
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-09-04
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The Fall of Teenager
1979-02-24
The Fall of Teenager
Overview: High school student Keiko struggles with the pressures of college entrance examinations and a chaotic home life, ultimately succumbing to alcohol, marijuana, gang members and rape.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-02-24
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Supermarket Woman
1996-06-15
Supermarket Woman
Overview: A struggling Japanese neighborhood supermarket manager chances upon an old classmate, who has plenty of ideas for revitalizing his business.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-06-15
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Ah! That Pep Squad 3 -Tears of a Man-
1977-03-19
Ah! That Pep Squad 3 -Tears of a Man-
Overview: Cherry blossoms are in full bloom. It is time for college students to go on a drinking spree under the cherry tree - It's "Hanami" time! Two freshmen and a sophomore are ordered to stake out a spot for the entire pep squad. Plans are initiated from the night before; three of them have to pull an all-nighter. Once the night falls, the sky turns pitch black. Rival pep squad of the Roka College emerge from the darkness and an all-out turf war begins.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-03-19
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Company Buggers
1975-08-09
Company Buggers
Overview: Hiroshi, a small-time racketeer, makes a name for himself extorting vulnerable companies and their directors for financial gain.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-08-09
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Blooming Early
1976-08-11
Blooming Early
Overview: A virginal vocational student who is curious about sex is educated by her more experienced classmate.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-08-11
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Love Me Tenderly, Love Me Wildly
1979-04-28
Love Me Tenderly, Love Me Wildly
Overview: Yuichi prides himself on the fact that he is a family man but contrary to his conception of an ideal family life, at age 24, his wife has already run out on him. In utter confusion, he tries to reason out where he had gone amiss that such a thing should happen out of the clear blue sky. About this time, Yuichi helps Ayako, a young girl, embroiled in trouble. She returns Yuichi's kindness by making off with his precious camera. Then she returns and since his wife has washed her hands of him, he forces himself on Ayako who acts as if she had been waiting for him to enter her. Suddenly, Yuichi's wife returns...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-04-28
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Disciples of Hippocrates
1980-11-21
Disciples of Hippocrates
Overview: The story revolves around Ogino, who is in the last year of his medical studies. Between lectures, exams, on field training, his commitment as a pro-reformist militant and his girlfriend, Ogino is starting to wonder if he's really cut out to be a doctor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-11-21
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A Taxing Woman
1987-02-07
A Taxing Woman
Overview: Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Gondo, a suspected millionaire and proprietor of a thriving chain of seedy hourly hotels, who has for years succeeded at hiding the true extent of his assets from the Japanese authorities. Itakura and Gondo soon find themselves engaged in a complicated, satirical battle of wits.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-02-07
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King of Sha-kin
1997-10-11
King of Sha-kin
Overview: In late 90s Osaka, three people from various walks of life meet by chance. They team up to orchestrate a complex financial con targeting crooked businessmen in an attempt to solve their respective financial woes.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-10-11
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Gate of Youth
1981-01-15
Gate of Youth
Overview: The story of Shinsuke, a young man who lives through a stormy life as a poverty-stricken coal miner. Ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his mid-teens. Coal workers and the mines dominate nearly every aspect of his life. Shinsuke's father a group leader at the mine, dies while bravely using dynamite to rescue a group of trapped Korean miners. Several older men attempt to help he and his mother cope, including a friendly Harley-riding yakuza boss. This movie has it all, drama, romance, sex, yakuza and violence! It is based on a story by Hiroyuki Itsuki that was originally serialized in the magazine Shukan Gendai in 1969-70.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-01-15
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Fighting Against The Incurable Disease Aplastic Anemia – Now You Are In The Light
1978-10-28
Fighting Against The Incurable Disease Aplastic Anemia – Now You Are In The Light
Overview: Film distributed by ATG.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-10-28
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Hold Me and Kiss Me
1992-11-14
Hold Me and Kiss Me
Overview: Keiko’s life is turned upside down when she discovers that she has been infected with HIV. As she struggles to cope with the situation and resist the infection, she finds new friendship and companionship with a journalist named Miyuki and a man named Akira.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-11-14
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Aogeba Tôtoshi
2006-01-21
Aogeba Tôtoshi
Overview: Mortality and death seen through the eyes of a lonely student who has an morbid and albeit naive fascination with death. His teacher, Koichi is also grappling with the issue of mortality as he deals with the impending death of his ailing father, who has decided to spend his final days in the family home. As the story progresses, Koichi finds unexpected solace from his grief by letting his troubled student visit and meet with his father in the hopes that he will understand the meaning of life and death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-01-21
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KILL THEM ALL
1990-11-23
KILL THEM ALL
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-11-23
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Takeshi: Childhood Days
1990-01-12
Takeshi: Childhood Days
Overview: A story of childhood life during wartime Japan. Takeshi, the intelligent son of a fisherman, is the schoolyard bully. When his cousin comes to stay with his family to avoid bombing raids, Takeshi at first treats him well, then begins bullying him too. Takeshi eventually loses his position of leadership.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-01-12
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Tomorrow
1988-08-13
Tomorrow
Overview: On August 9, 1945, the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. This film, based on a story by Mitsukaru Inoue, describes the daily life of people in Nagasaki the day before that fateful event. It presents the human drama of people's lives, and their feelings of joy and sadness. These include a newlywed couple, an expectant mother, and lovers who must say farewell because the boy is called to serve in the army. Each of these people, like others in the city, hoped to live with their dreams for ‘tomorrow’. But tomorrow never comes for them, as their lives are brought to an abrupt and unexpected end. Knowing how the story ends, in this case, doesn't detract from it at all; rather, it enhances the emotional impact, which is further heightened by the poignant musical score from Teizo Matsumura. 'Ashita' is the first film in Kazuo Kuroki's 'War Requiem Trilogy,' which also includes 'Utsukushii Natsu Kirishima' (2002) and 'Chichi to Kuraseba' (2004).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-08-13
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Vengeance Is Mine
1979-04-21
Vengeance Is Mine
Overview: A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-04-21
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Will to Live
1999-01-15
Will to Live
Overview: It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the substitution of putting a parent into an old people's home for the abandonment of the original. The film won the Golden St. George and the FIPRESCI Prize at the 21st Moscow International Film Festival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-01-15
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XX: Graceful Beautiful Beast
1997-01-01
XX: Graceful Beautiful Beast
Overview: The story of Shien brought up as a killing machine in a nunnery. Can she flee from the clutches of the underground organization?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Pimp Heaven
1975-05-24
Pimp Heaven
Overview: Class-A Kyoto, a strip joint in Kyoto, is raided by the police. Shohei, a salesman who happens to be there, gets caught in the middle of it and is fired from his job. Having nowhere else to go, Shohei reluctantly becomes the manager of the place... The film is a comedy full of pathos about the connection between strippers called "special delivery" and the "pimps" who hang on to them.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-05-24
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Postcard
2010-10-27
Postcard
Overview: Toward the end of World War II, middle-aged soldier Keita is entrusted with a postcard from a comrade who is sure he will die in battle. After the war ends, Keita visits his comrade's wife Yuko and bears witness to the tragic life she has led.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-10-27
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Yoko
1977-10-22
Yoko
Overview: The tale of two sisters, suffering from a nervous disorder.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-10-22
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King of Sha-kin 3
1998-07-04
King of Sha-kin 3
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-07-04
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King of Sha-kin 8
2001-01-26
King of Sha-kin 8
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-01-26
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じんじん
2013-07-13
じんじん
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-07-13
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Two Harmonicas
1976-10-02
Two Harmonicas
Overview: In 1945, a boy evacuated to Miyagi Prefecture befriends a local child, and the two begin to play harmonica near the local military base. Then, one day, they hear a soldier playing harmonica from inside the base, and begin to form a bond with him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-10-02
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