Kazuko Shirakawa
Also Known As: Kazuko Shirakawa
Biography: Kazuko Shirakawa (born September 30, 1947) is a Japanese actress who is best known for her appearances in Nikkatsu's Roman Porno films during the 1970s. She appeared in Nikkatsu's first film in the Roman Porno series, Apartment Wife (1971), and is considered the first of the three "Nikkatsu Queens" of the 1970s. After 1976 she embarked on a successful career in mainstream film. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan
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Roupeiro's Melancholy
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-01-13
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Struggling Man
Overview: Haruo Izawa is 45 years old and the floor chief of the local grocery store “Umeya”. He is highly trusted by Store Manager Ueda and the part-time ladies and the Ohara branch is the only place where he has been working for 25 years. Although he says that he doesn’t fit to be a store manager, he is still concerned about HR and career advancement. That’s why Ueda’s praise "command center" is his only treasure. Besides, he is also a husband of his wife Ritsuko, and a father of two daughters and a son, Koume, Kanako, and Ryota at home. Humor and pathos are said to be only a fine line, but Haruo’s fruitless actions of paying attention to the human relationships and atmosphere and overthinking never stop.. Where is this middle-aged man’s turmoil going??
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-12-17
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Before the Vigil
Overview: Matsuoi and his wife Tsuya moved to Oshima City because of her unpredictable character. Even though Tsuya continues to have affairs, Matsuoi loves her and is a devoted husband. Tsuya is then diagnosed with a cancer and later goes into a coma. Matsuoi then thinks of his wife's lovers. Matsui goes to those men and informs them of Tatsuya's condition. The other women in the lives of those men are shocked and begin to re-examine their views of their men.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-01-15
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The Lawyer of Shimane
Overview: The story is set in the Shimane Prefecture, which supposedly has the fewest lawyers in all of Japan. Nakama plays the role of the hard-working and righteous Yamazaki Mizuho, who travels around by bicycle to help her clients.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-07-14
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Thorns of Love
Overview: Momo, 24, was recently dumped by Kentaro. Spotting his new girlfriend Riko on Instagram, Momo tracks her down and confronts her, proposing a secret alliance.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-01-06
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After Life
Overview: On a cold Monday morning, a group of counselors clock in at an old-fashioned social services office. Their task is to interview the recently deceased, record their personal details, then, over the course of the week, assist them in choosing a single memory to keep for eternity.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-04-17
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Spring Bell
Overview: Rokuheita Narumi is fascinated by oriental art and works as the director of the Saho Art Museum in Nara. His wife, Noriko, is unable to leave Tokyo, despite his wishes, and the two live separately. Feeling lonely and neglected by her husband, she immerses herself in the depraved life of the city and continues to have a loveless relationship with a doctor, Katsumori. One day, Narumi arrives in Tokyo and learns of Noriko's affair, but he cannot divorce her for the sake of their child, so he devotes himself to his work.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-11-09
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Don't Mind
Overview: Set in downtown Tokyo, it depicts the activities of a weak youth baseball team, the Chidori Boys, and the ordinary people who live there.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-03-03
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Execution In Daytime
Overview: A former detective vows revenge on those who caused his daughter's suicide
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-05-15
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The Youth Killer
Overview: Though his parents help him run the family business, Jun still feels persecuted by their love; when they bar him from meeting with his girlfriend, tensions increase.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-10-23
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Nihon porno Olympic: Chikubi-yama no seien
Overview: Nikkatsu Roman Porno
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-12-29
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Night and Day
Overview: Nikkatsu Roman Porno
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-04-08
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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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The Love Sorceress
Overview: Yasuko's husband Junichi works overseas, she becomes intimate with another guy called Takuji in his absence. One day her husband returns and she begins to suspect he has another woman. She follows him to a hotel but sees him dressed in female clothing. Junichi offers her and Takuji to join him for some shady parties.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-05-27
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Manatsu no Yoru no Jôji
Overview: Nikkatsu Roman Porno
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-07-27
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Dewdrops on the Petals
Overview: Yukie is a young woman who works at her father's flower shop. She uses her job to hide from her problems including a marriage troubled by her sexual frigidity. Her husband and her best friend engage in an affair, and Yukie goes to her father for advice on how to save her marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-02-09
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Apartment Wife: Affair In the Afternoon
Overview: A working-class housewife is sexually unsatisfied by her husband. When she seeks extramarital relationships, her affairs are discovered by a brothel-owner who then blackmails the woman into working as a prostitute for her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-11-20
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Silent Tears
Overview: Roman Porno from 1972.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-03-18
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Apartment Wife: Night of the Rape
Overview: The story depicts the process of a happy family being destroyed by someone taking advantage of a traffic accident caused by buying a car to show off to the neighbors.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-01-13
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In Search of a Lost Writer: Wandering in the World of the Seventh Sense
Overview: A drama depicting the world of the female writer Midori Osaki in three parts: the dramatic creation of her masterpiece, "Wanderings in the Realm of the Seventh Sense," her unknown years spent in poor health and poverty, and the present-day world from which we see her work.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-07-03
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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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ヌーのコインロッカーは使用禁止
Overview: Nasu Kano, known as Nu, has a developmental disability. As soon as she was born, her mother abandoned her in a coin locker. One day, Nu meets Kazuma Kurosako, who has just been released from prison and was attempting to make money by selling substances near Nu's coin locker. Kurosako gradually become interested in Nu and began posting Nu's paintings on social media on a whim. When Kurosako is contacted by a famous overseas artist interested in buying a painting of Nu's, he initially wants to sell it for a high price for his own profit. As he spends more time with pure-hearted Nu, Kurosako gains a more selfless conscious. All of a sudden, Nu collapses from leukemia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-04-07
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The Sloe-eyed Siren
Overview: Roman Porno from 1972.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-09-16
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The Shadow on the Wall
Overview: A blind woman suspects that something isn’t right about the reappeared wife of her brother after she was missing for 6 months. Soon things take a sinister turn.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-06-28
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Affair at Twilight
Overview: Reiko is an adulterous housewife whose lover is a foul-tempered yakuza gangster. After one of her husband's friends spies the amorous duo at a no-tell motel, the stage is set for murder.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-01-08
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Drifter's Affair
Overview: Roman Porno from 1972.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-02-19
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Naked Resume: True Story of Kazuko Shirakawa
Overview: Nikkatsu Roman Porno
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-02-21
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Girls' Dormitory
Overview: In a complex story, various sexual escapades - heterosexual and lesbian - take place at a hospital.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-05-16
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All the Tricks in Life
Overview: Pinku from 1968.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Luminous Woman
Overview: A hulking man from the country pursues his beloved to the underworld of Tokyo nightclubs, where he finds work as a sideshow wrestler and becomes involved with a faded opera singer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-10-24
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Lewd Priest: Forty-Eight Positions Cutting
Overview: Zatoichi pink film parody from 1969
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Writhing Hill Secret Club
Overview: Pinku from 1969.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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色万引き
Overview: Pinku from 1970.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-07-01
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Picture of Spring
Overview: When a bored cafe worker starts learning about erotic prints from a widowed shunga researcher, she gets drawn into a world free of inhibitions.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-10-13
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2 Channel no Noroi - VOL. 3
Overview: Third volume in the 2 Channel series.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-04-15
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Fujin Volleyball: Mamas Attack
Overview: In 2003, Nikkatsu got the cute idea to just toss a bunch of washed up middle aged Ex-Roman Porno stars into a V-cinema Volleyball Movie.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-05-25
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Mitsugetsu
Overview: Tetsuaki's struggling to write a novel while his mother fades; Mitsuko's engagement has been forced upon her unwillingly; the two individuals run away to share their grief.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-01-28
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Impotent
Overview: An impotent young man moves to the city with his supportive girlfriend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-06-07
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Swimming Upstream
Overview: One day after school, Kaoru glances at Sonoko at the pool side. He falls in love with her at first sight and decides to join the swimming team even though he cannot swim.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-06-02
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Blessing Bell
Overview: Existential study on a misplaced workers and ex-prisoner who moves through the city and his influence on other characters' lives.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-12-08
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The Stairway to the Distant Past
Overview: Broke, with his vintage Nash convertible repossessed, private eye Mike Hama is reduced to combing the mean streets of the Yokohama waterfront on a borrowed bicycle. But when Lily, a beautiful stripper from out of Hama's past, returns to town, the fuse is lit on a criminal powder keg set to blow the lid off the Yokohama underworld.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-03-18
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The Erotic Empire
Overview: A short documentary primarily focused on Nikkatsu's Roman Porno series.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Why Not?
Overview: The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ei ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in Japan in 1867 and 1868 in the days leading to the Meiji Restoration. It examines the effects of the political and social upheaval of the time, and culminates in a revelrous march on the Tokyo Imperial Palace, which turns into a massacre. Characteristically, Imamura focuses not on the leaders of the country, but on characters in the lower classes and on the fringes of society.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-01-08
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Onpaku
Overview: Tokyo is a mere five-hour flight from Hong Kong but it is a totally different world. Sarah (Josie Ho) has come to Japan seeking to buy an investment property and to have a brief and restful holiday after a bad break-up with her boyfriend. Everything has been precisely arranged in advance; from the schedule, to the hotel, to the real estate broker and the site visits. Immediately after her arrival, things start to go terribly wrong.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-11-21
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Tokimeki Coast Story
Overview: Set in the fishing port of Shingu, Nankishu, it depicts a young man aiming to become a professional surfer.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Black Rain
Overview: Shigematsu Shizuma, who lives with his family in a village near Fukuyama, was in Hiroshima with his wife and niece just after the devastating atomic bombing, a tragedy that cruelly took the lives of thousands of people and forever marked the harsh existence of the survivors.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-05-13
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The Devil's Path
Overview: Death-row inmate Sudo sends a letter to magazine reporter Fujii. In his letter, he states that a man named Kimura, also known as "teacher," committed numerous murders for insurance money. While checking out the story, based on Sudo's tip, Fuji becomes convinced that the letter is correct. But, a lot of time has passed from the incidents and Sudo's testimony isn't clear. Due to the persistance of Sudo, who is a former yakuza, and Fuji, the police begin to move.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-09-21
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Six Singing Women
Overview: Two men with opposite personalities, Kayashima and Uwajima, accidentally wander into a beautiful village after a car accident. When they wake up, they are imprisoned by six beautiful but strange girls who live in the village. Kayashima is at the mercy of the girls' instinctive behavior, but is gradually drawn to the pure beauty of girls, who are at one with nature. Uwajima is attracted to one attractive girl and steps into forbidden territory. The six girls were incarnations of catfish, pit vipers, owls, dormice, bees, plants, and other creatures of nature disguised as humans. What they wanted from the men...
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-10-27
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Dendera
Overview: Fifty elderly women are abandoned to die on a snow covered mountain, but instead wor together to build their own village named "Dendera." Some of the women wants to live their remaining days in peace, but others seek revenge against the villagers and their own families who left them to die.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-06-25
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Women’s Secrets Behind Bars
Overview: After being falsely charged with murdering her husband, Nao is sent to a prison for women where her fellow inmates try to help her escape.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-08-28
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The Wild Daisy
Overview: Saito Masao reminisces on the days of his youth more than 50 years ago and his forbidden love of his older cousin Tamiko. When he was 15, Tamiko moved in to take care of his sickly mother. The two quickly fell in love with each other but were inevitably forced by their family to live separate lives.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-08-08
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Dawn of the Felines
Overview: A story of three escort girls living in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. They work at the same escort service while feeling lonely in their urban lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-01-14
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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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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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Cannonball Wedlock
Overview: 24-year-old OL Chie Ikeshita's (Yuriko Yoshitaka) motto is to try various things to enjoy life. Chie spends her time accordingly to her motto. Chie Ikeshita then starts to date 5 different men and adjusts herself to the different situations. Up to this point, Chie never thought about marriage. She changes her thought after her friend Toshiko Hamaguchi (Anne Watanabe) gets married. Chie takes the advise of Toshiko and decides to marry one of the 5 men. She must now whittle down her choice to one man.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-04-01
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Housewife's Afternoon Delight
Overview: Sayaka is a sexually frustrated housewife whose husband rarely talks and is always busy with work. But she soon finds an antidote to her loneliness and boredom in the form of a door-to-door salesman in this erotic drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-02-13
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The Nineteen-Year-Old's Map
Overview: A 19-year-old newspaper delivery boy begins collecting information on the households in his neighborhood and keeping a journal of why he doesn't like them. Declaring himself a 'right-winger' and calling in bomb threats against the neighbors he doesn't like, the 19-year-old begins a war of psychological terror against the families in his neighborhood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-12-01
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The Family Game
Overview: A sendup of the stereotypical Japanese family: dad is a salaryman jerk, unable to relate to anyone; mom is a hopeless housewife; the older son is a moderate academic success; but the younger son is a rebellious goof-off for whom a tutor must be hired. The tutor, played by the prototypical bad boy actor Matsuda Yusaku, proceeds to blow the entire family apart.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-05-04
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Osaka Hamlet
Overview: A film about family life in Osaka. Following the death of their father, three boys struggle to find their own identity with the help of their outgoing mother and weak-willed uncle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-10-21
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Apartment Wife: Secret Rendezvous
Overview: Shuichi and Nobuko are an ordinary, young couple, a promising company employee and his pretty wife. They think nothing can mar their peaceful life but nothing is permanent in this world and Shuichi's company goes bankrupt. Shuichi feels lost. He misses the good times he had at bars and cabarets, especially Hiromi, a hostess. Nobuko offers to work while he hunts for a job and finds an opening at an advertising company. But as Nobuko makes the rounds of restaurants and cabarets, she finds she cannot get ads just by dint of hard work alone. All the shop owners and managers expect her to sleep with them for each big ad they buy. At first, Nobuko is shocked but, to eat, she must meet their demands.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-04-29
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The Young Animals
Overview: Shinji, a leather jacket man on a Harley Davidson, meets Megu, who is a queen bee with followers while stopping the fight between two female groups. Megu fell in love with Shinji, but he has his eye on cute Mayo.
Genres: Romance Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-12-02
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Rei Tin: Ko Ladies!! Socho saigo no hi
Overview: Based on a manga by Masahide Motohashi.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-07-22
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Lily Festival
Overview: Sachi Hamano's Yurisai (Lily Festival) is about a man (Mickey Curtis) in his seventies who comes to live in an apartment building that also houses seven elderly women. The film examines the ladies' sexual desires as the man proceeds to woo each of them. Kazuko Yoshiyuki portrays one of the female residents. The film was adapted from a novel by Houko Momotani and was screened at the Montreal World Film Festival.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-08-26
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Thirsty for Love
Overview: Kazuko Shirakawa plays a girl who left home to satisfy her inner lust. Her passion turns to despair when she looks at her miserable life and sees the loss of her one true love and eventually becomes a prostitute. Everything is masterminded by her jealous sister, who hopes to bed her husband. She eventually gets her wish.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-12-01
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The Superhuman Stud
Overview: Roman Porno from 1972.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-08-16
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The Hotspring Resort Masseuse
Overview: Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-01-24
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Night's Tightrope
Overview: Yuki is a 2nd year high school student. She volunteers at a paediatrics ward for her summer vacation, because she wants to witness the moment a person dies. She got that thought after feeling envious of a transfer student's story of seeing a friend's dead body. Yuki has friend named Atsuko. She was bullied in the past and has anxiety issues. She volunteers at a nursing home for her summer vacation, hoping that she will gain courage if she sees the moment a person dies.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-10-08
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I Will Never Forgive
Overview: A psychological drama about the consequences of a 15 year old girl's gang rape.
Genres: Drama Horror Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-04-07
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Radiance
Overview: The story follows the social intercourse between a cameraman, Masaya, with a visual impairment, and Misako who disconnects from the world.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-05-27
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Did the Red Bird Escape?
Overview: A young outlaw can’t escape his rebellious past despite connections to a well to do family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-02-17
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Overly-Ripe Breasts: Married Women
Overview: A woman's husband’s infidelity drives her to sleep with both of her sisters’ lovers.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-02-03
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Sosuke Loses His Lover
Overview: Koji Wakamatsu adapted Kouhei Tsuka's play of the same name into a human comedy about the members of a traveling acting troupe.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-10-02
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Kawasaki Vice Squad
Overview: A photographer who takes pictures of a rendezvous between a politician, company president and yakuza boss is later found dead and the film missing.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-07-23
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Praying Mantis
Overview: A man and a woman drift ashore after a typhoon. The man, dead, is an escaped perpetrator, and the woman, alive, is a hairdresser Masako. A detective in charge of an embezzlement case is tracking the whereabouts of disappeared money and suspects Masako. One year later, a real estate company president dies a suspicious death in front of Masako at her beauty salon. Was it an accidents or murder?
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-04-08
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Teito Monogatari Gaiden
Overview: In 1995, a mental hospital is erected near the Japanese Ministry of Finance, located adjacent to the grave of Taira no Masakado. A young male nurse by the name of Jin’ya Yanase is obsessed with the legend of Taira no Masakado and more importantly, the spirit of his evil subordinate Yasunori Kato. Slowly, he becomes possessed by Kato's spirit, who wants to use him as a new host to revive in the modern world. Keiko Tatsumiya (the heroine of the original story), is an old woman living homeless on the streets of Tokyo. When she senses the presence of Yasunori Kato, she must regain her resolve to face the demon-god and vanquish his spirit once and for all.
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-09-15
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Afternoon Affair: Rear Window
Overview: For a girl who works in a 3rd rate bar, Ayuko is full of vanity. Nomura, her patron, is besotted by her and it is their habit that they cannot reach a climax unless they peek at a couple, across the way, making love. Intent on climbing up in the world, Ayuko uses all her wiles to get her patron, who is putty in her hands, to move her from her grubby apartment house to a dreamboat of a place. She then tries to find a place to work more befitting her new home but all the elite night clubs will have nothing to do with her and with time heavy on her hands, the devil finds mischief for idle hands to do.
Genres: Romance Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-11-18
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The Story of a Geisha
Overview: In the year 1873, a Japanese woman is sold as a mistress to an American diplomat stationed in Japan.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-08-27
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Serial Killer: Coldblooded
Overview: Based on the life of Japanese serial killer and thief Kiyotaka Katsuta.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-02-11
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Someday, Someone Will Be Killed
Overview: While trying to search for her missing father, Atsuko Moriya (Noriko Watanabe) meets a group of outcasts that help her. Having only an encrypted disk in her possession and while being chased by unknown people, Atsuko tries to solve the mystery of her family origins...
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-10-10
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A Pit
Overview: Description of Lesbian sex.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-12-19
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The Nikaidos' Fall
Overview: After losing his son, Tatsuya is anguished by the danger of his ancient family line coming to an end. His mother Haru urges him to embark on a loveless second marriage, and meanwhile he secretly hopes that his daughter Yoshiko will marry a husband willing to adopt the Nikaido name and follow in his footsteps.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-01-25
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Corpo a Corpo
Overview: In the heart of Osaka's old neighborhoods lies a run-down apartment building known as "Copo." Its thin walls and lack of privacy are home to a group of residents, each struggling with their own pasts and uncertainties. Yuri, a part-time worker, has fled her family, while her neighbors—an aloof man who lives off women, a shy laborer with clumsy affections, and an older resident running a mysterious business—navigate their complex lives. The discovery of a fellow tenant’s death forces them all to confront their personal dilemmas and the fragile nature of life in the "Copo."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-11-17
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History of Japanese Sexual Crimes: Assault Demons in Broad Daylight
Overview: Pink film distributed by Roppo Eiga.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-11-01
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Apartment Wife: Serial Murders
Overview: Murders of housewives occur one after another in a suburban apartment complex. All of the victims have had an intimate relationship with a certain man, and behind him lies a woman with a past...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-02-28
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