Gō Awazu
Also Known As: Gô Awazu
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Oga, Akita, Japan
Adult: No
Deathday: March 15, 2000
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Seven Days War
Overview: A community is in turmoil when junior high schoolers barricade themselves in an empty factory to protest the draconian rules of parents and teachers. They're sick of heavy-handed teachers and iron-fisted parents. And now they're going to do something about it.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-08-13
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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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Double Clutch
Overview: Hiromi Go plays a high school student who needs a role model in his life badly. He's raised by his older sister played by Keiko Matsuzaka who is a hostess at a night club. She meets a man who becomes her boyfriend. He races in a off-road car rally professionally. The same man becomes Go's role model and teaches him sophisticated car driving techniques. One of the techniques taught is 'double clutch' ( Thus the movie's title Double Kuracchi ) to make gear transition smoothly between shifts. Due to an unfortunate accident, Matsuzaka's character dies and Go is left to fend for his life. Hiromi Go was a big pop idol in Japan when this movie was created. Both Go and Matsuzaka still enjoys high celebrity status in Japan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-04-29
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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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High School Ghosthustlers
Overview: The GhostHustlers are three beautiful female students Kyoko, Mayu and Emi who fight evil spirits at Onin High School. The GhostHustlers are called into action when their school is invaded by "Erotomaniac Spirits" that have turned the female students into an uncontrollable libidinous frenzy. While this proves to be quite popular with the male students the school is also being overrun by slimy paranormal creatures. Faced with supernatural foes and the increasing moral turpitude of their students these three heroines do whatever is needed to save their school.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-09-22
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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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August: Scent of Eros
Overview: A department store girl is robbed of her cash register by a boy, but for some reason she cannot forget the boy's mysterious eyes, and time passes. One day, she discovers the eyes by chance, and relentlessly pursues the boy.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-08-16
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Delicate Skillful Fingers
Overview: A girl falls for a pickpocketer who gets arrested, so she hooks up with his ex-girlfriend and his ex-cellmate.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-06-07
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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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Handbook on Love
Overview: Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-04-25
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Wet Lust: 21 Strippers
Overview: Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-01-03
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Koichiro Uno's Up & Wet
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-01-24
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Koichiro Uno's Up and Down
Overview: A frustrated married woman has to deal with her husband's frequent business trips. One day, she decides to turn her home into a boarding house to attract young men.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-08-06
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Painful Bliss: Final Twist
Overview: A young executive has a really bad night after an encounter with a crazed bisexual wannabe yakuza and his horny girlfriend.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-02-01
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Sailor Uniform: Lily Lovers 2
Overview: Two high school lesbians have their relationship tested when they take summer jobs at a resort town and meet various men.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-10-14
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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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Adultery
Overview: A wife, bored with her husband, meets one of his old friends at a party. He manages a strip club. Intrigued, she goes with him to visit one of his clubs. One of the strippers is upset and the manager has to pleasure her to calm her down. The wife is aroused by the sight of this and later invites him to her house. There they begin a passionate affair behind her husband’s back.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-10-31
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Labyrinth Romanesque
Overview: A serial killing occurs at a port town brothel.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-01-15
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Bugs
Overview: Aru Islands in resort development. Was a succession happening the abandoned corpses in there are holes in body. Ligia exotica appeared on an isolated island of mutants is taking the panic and horror.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-01-11
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A Distant Cry from Spring
Overview: The quiet life of a mother and her young son living on a farm in Hokkaido is changed by the arrival of a man who ignites flames of romance in the heart of the mother and shows her boy the importance of grit and kindness, but then he leaves with the autumn wind.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-03-15
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Ōgazumu Mariko
Overview: Under a full moon near a highway bridge a woman has sex with her boyfriend during her period. Unfortunately the boyfriend is accidentally killed by a flying pop bottle from a passing delivery truck. This triggers a story of bloody revenge.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-11-16
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Nun's Heaven
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-06-18
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Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
Overview: Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life in a rural village. When he's caught in the middle of a power struggle between two rival Yakuza clans, his reputation as a deadly defender of the innocent is put to the ultimate test in a series of sword-slashing showdowns.
Genres: Action Drama Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-02-04
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Second Chance
Overview: A man survives a double suicide attempt, while his girlfriend does not.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-09-15
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Love Doll Report: An Adult Toy
Overview: A doctor develops a robot love doll to keep a team of Antarctic researchers company, but is displeased with the result despite the product’s success. His desire to create a more realistic doll leads the doctor to model one after an attractive college student.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-04-12
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Farewell to the Land
Overview: Yukio is an ex-farmer working as a dump-truck driver in Kashima. Haunted by the drowning of his two young sons, whose names he has had tattooed on his back in penance, and locked in a sibling rivalry with his traditional but urbane younger brother who lives in Tokyo, Yukio has become an amphetamine-addicted loner at odds with his family, friends and colleagues.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-04-09
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The Assassination of Ryoma
Overview: Story of the last three days in the life of Sakamoto Ryoma (1836-1867), the imperial loyalist who tried to unite the Choshu and Satsuma clans and prepared the way for the Meiji Restoration (1868).
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-08-03
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Crazed Fruit
Overview: A working class young man, Tetsuo, who distrusts all rich people, falls in love with a girl, Chika, from an affluent family. He has a difficult time, but love survives despite the problems.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-04-24
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Evening Primrose
Overview: The Taisho era was a time of turbulence in Japan. From new marks of modernity to full-blown riots, a sense of revolution filled the air. The Dam Dam Group is a small anarchist organization lead by Daijiro, a silver tongued "Benshi", a performer who provides narratives for silent films, playing multiple roles. In other words, he was a master at the art of deception, a handy talent when it came to 'doing jobs' for his group. His revolutionary ideals attracted many to his squadron, but among them was a young girl who was oblivious to his group's activities. Her name was Shino.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-12-28
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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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A Fragile Heart
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-05-24
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The First Catch
Overview: Based on the comic book series of the same name by Yûsuke Aoyagi.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-12-27
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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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Tampopo
Overview: In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tampopo, begs them to help her turn her establishment into a paragon of the "art of noodle-soup making". Interspersed are satirical vignettes about the importance of food to different aspects of human life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-11-23
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Mibōjin no shinshitsu
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-06-26
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Watashi no naka no shōfu
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-11-03
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September Sky
Overview: Kobayashi Isamu, a first-year high school student, lives in a family of four with his father, an artist, his mother, an insurance agent, and his sister, an office worker. To make ends meet, he works as a milkman. At school, he is a member of the kendo club and spends his days working out with his seniors. Over time, he has various encounters with a series of girls.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-12-02
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Bungakusho Satsujin Jiken: Oinaru Jyoso
Overview: A young doujinshi writer doesn't win the literary prize award, and ends up killing the selection committee.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-01-28
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Tōchō suru onna
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-12-16
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