Junko Miyashita
Also Known As: Дзюнко Миясита, Junko Miyashita
Biography: Junko Miyashita (宮下順子, Miyashita Junko, born 29 January 1949) is a Japanese actress who had a long and varied career working both in pink film and mainstream cinema.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
Adult: No
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The Alaska Story
Overview: A Japanese sailor finds a colony of Eskimos in the Arctic and decides to stay with them. He comes off at a certain moment to look for his luck in the gold rush in Alaska. But he does not forget them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-01-22
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Magino Village: A Tale
Overview: The movie compiles footage taken by Ogawa Production for a period of more than ten years after the collective moved to Magino village. Unique to this film are fictional reenactments of the history of the village in the sections titled "The Tale of Horikiri Goddess" and "The Origins of Itsutsudomoe Shrine". Ogawa combines all the techniques that were developed in his previous films to simultaneously express multiple layers of time—the temporality of rice growing and of human life, personal life histories, the history of the village, the time of the Gods, and new time created through theatrical reenactment—bring them into a unified whole. The faces of the Magino villagers appear in numerous roles transcending time and space—sometimes as individuals, sometimes as people who carry the history of the village in their memories, sometimes as storytellers reciting myths, and even as members of the crowd in the fictional sequences.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-12-01
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THE LAST GOZE
Overview: A "Goze" is a blind entertainer who travels to various places singing stories while playing the shamisen (Japanese three-stringed lute). Becoming a goze due to her blindness at seven-years-old, Haru was strictly trained with a parent's affection by her once kind mother, Tome.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-10-23
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Bad Guys Only
Overview: A one shot game setup by lonely outlaws!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-12-14
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The Vanity of the Shogun's Mistress
Overview: Since the arrival of the Black Ships, the Tokugawa Shogunate's dream of peace has been shattered, and the succession problem of the ailing Shogun Iesada has become a headache. At the same time, Tamamo, a prostitute in Yoshiwara, is dismissed from her position at the behest of a high-ranking noble family who has come on a secret mission.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-01-03
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The Watcher in the Attic
Overview: A shiftless resident in a boarding house spends his days crawling in the attic and spying on the renters below. One day he spies an elegant lady enter a room where a clown awaited her and watched as he pleasured her. But she spotted him watching and it aroused her more. Thus begins a story of two people who find they share similar desires and deadly passions.
Genres: Romance Thriller Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-06-12
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Rope and Skin
Overview: Okoma (literally, Red Cherry) was a woman gambler until she retired from the yakuza world. Two years later, she returns home, and finds that the big boss has been assassinated and his daughter is having trouble keeping things in line against the rival gang headed by the men who killed her father. Okoma decides to avenge her former boss and help his daughter, a former friend of hers. She recruits her own gang, starting with an expert knife-fighter, her former lover. After a fight, the new Gang Leader captures and tortures Okoma sadistically.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-07-21
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A Woman Called Sada Abe
Overview: The young and beautiful Sada Abe, the daughter of a rich merchant, is banished for losing her virginity after being raped by a college student. Sada wanders the city, becoming a geisha and eventually meeting Kichizo, a posh restaurateur who falls under her spell. Together, they embark on a week-long sexual escapade filled with dangerous obsessions. Their complete descent into each others desires culminates in a shocking crime of passion which captures the city's headlines. Based on a real event from 1936.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-02-08
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Heisei Zankeiden: Gaido is Killed!
Overview: Takanezawa, a young head of the Yokohama Kibe group, confronts the Kansai organization that forces the transfer of Shima with the debt of the previous generation as a shield. Appeared by Riki Takeuchi and Hagiwara fashion.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-02-14
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Fire Festival
Overview: Tatsuo, a reverent lumberjack, seeks to disrupt plans to build a marine park on his family land, instead promoting his traditions in reactionary ways.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-05-25
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Shadow Hunters 2: Echo of Destiny
Overview: The great Daimyo enlists the aid of the three Shadow Hunters in ensuring the delivery of an illegal cannon in this sequel to Toshio Masuda's bloody adaptation of the manga by Takao Saito. Despite the Shadow Hunters's remarkable skill, this mission is no walk in the park, and in order to survive they must face a relentless army of ninjas and female warriors willing to sacrifice their lives to disrupt the delivery and claim the cannon for themselves.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-10-10
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Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
Overview: Kumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a gang of thieves. He leads his outlaws in an attempt to rob the castle of his former clan.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-07-01
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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
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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Mistress
Overview: Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Genres: Romance Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-08-26
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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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Secret Chronicle: She Beast Market
Overview: A strong-willed young prostitute, her developmentally challenged brother, and her aging prostitute mother attempt to survive in 1970s Osaka.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-09-11
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The Mosquito on the Tenth Floor
Overview: A lower-middle-class policeman lives decadently, chasing cheap beer and girls at the same time he's running from loan sharks and his personal expectations.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-07-02
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Apartment Wife: Unforgettable Night
Overview: Junko Miyashita plays a married woman who, as her marital life dwindles, throws herself into relationships with men other than her husband.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-07-08
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Wet Weekend
Overview: A bored office clerk is having an affair with her married boss. Since he refuses to leave his wife, she and another couple plan to kidnap his daughter to collect a ransom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-09-22
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Pleasure Campus: Secret Games
Overview: A high school girl has a very very bad day. She is disciplined for disrupting class and sent to clean lab equipment. Feeling horny she uses a phallic looking test tube to pleasure herself. Unfortunately a passing teacher spots her and proceeds to further discipline her with additional equipment. She suffers as a parade of teachers dish out a variety of humiliations one after another. Finally escaping to home she finds her trials are not over as her parents decide to give her a rather perverse sexual education.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-11-21
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Tracked
Overview: When a fugitive begins a romance with the woman hiding him from the law, it becomes uncertain whether he will ever escape the shadow of his heinous crimes--or the detectives hot on his trail.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-10-26
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Female Ninja Magic: 100 Trampled Flowers
Overview: In historical times, the Shogun family employs a group of Iga ninjas to take over the Akizuki clan's lands. The Akizuki hire the Fumi ninjas, a group of female warriors who enhance their fighting ability with sexual magic such as the "white snake spell". When the Akizuki emerge victorious, Tsukinojo, the leader of the Fumi ninjas, marries Lord Akizuki.
Genres: Action Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-08-03
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Beauty's Exotic Dance: Torture!
Overview: A somewhat liberal adaptation of the life of painter Shuu Ito, the film focuses on his sexual torture of two wives and a prostitute. Ito chronicles the sessions in journals, shares his pseudo-Sadean philosophy, and drives women mad with equal hell-bent intensity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-02-23
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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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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.
Genres: No genres available
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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The Living Koheiji
Overview: The actor Koheiji is terribly in love with the wife of his best friend, the playwright Takuro; to get her, he would even kill Takuro.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-09-04
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Maruhi anaba joho: Hinba no toiki
Overview: Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-06-13
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Sukeban Deka: Dirty Mary
Overview: A tough female cop matches wits with a blackmailing killer.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-04-20
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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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Mermaid Legend
Overview: After a woman is framed for the murder of her fisherman husband, she seeks out a bloody revenge on the corrupt businessmen responsible.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-04-14
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Wandering Seagull: Night in Kushiro
Overview: Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-10-05
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Sex Life of Highschool Students
Overview: Pinku from 1972.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-11-07
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Apartment Wife: Prime Woman
Overview: The story depicts the love and hate surrounding artificial insemination between a husband who is unable to have children and a normal wife.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-10-28
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Young sex: Rankô shori
Overview: Pinku from 1972.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Office Lady Diary: Poaching
Overview: A young office worker grows up to become an insatiable sexual deviant thanks to her mother's "lusty blood". She can't control her abnormal desire, which flares up at the mere sight of a man. The blood of debauchery hidden in the seemingly ordinary and healthy body of an office worker delights and confounds men.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-12-05
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Married Woman: Smoldering Fire
Overview: Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-10-24
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Legend of the Sex Thief in Edo
Overview: Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-09-12
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Sex Report From a Female Private Detective: Housewife Prostitution
Overview: Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-08-15
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Love Makes Me Wet
Overview: Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-07-25
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Apartment Wife: Playing with Fire
Overview: Yoichi and Masako have been married for several years and have reached a period of boredom.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-07-04
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A Rainy Night Affair
Overview: Pinku from 1973.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-05-23
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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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Afternoon Affair: Kyoto Holy Tapestry
Overview: An upwardly-mobile banker's boss introduces him to the adopted daughter of a wealthy client. He falls in love with the girl and wants to marry her, not knowing that she is involved in a kinky sadomasochistic relationship with her artist father.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-04-04
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Apartment Wife: Night of Pleasure
Overview: Kazuaki Koizumi and Saeko, a couple who have set up a new house in the suburbs, have finally celebrated their first wedding anniversary. However, on that memorable day, Saeko was attacked by a thug. Moreover, the thug not only raped her, but also provoked her dog...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-03-14
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Secret of Concubine Palace Addendum: Convent's Gate of Lust
Overview: Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-02-21
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Naked Resume: True Story of Kazuko Shirakawa
Overview: Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-02-21
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Hihon: Sode to sode
Overview: Writer and ladies-man Yonosuke, who gives inept English lessons (using Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet), is mistakenly ushered into the back entrance of a woman's house one rainy night. When he finds out that her husband is away at war in Russia he tries to take advantage of the situation. Her honor is saved when he discovers she is wearing a chastity belt. But she is lonely and she has the key...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-10-26
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New Apartment Wife: Afternoon Beast
Overview: Kyoko has been married to Keisuke three years but recently, she has this feeling that she cannot entirely trust her husband. She hires Terao, a private eye, to prove her doubts are groundless. Poor Kyoko does not seem to know that, "He who digs a pit for others, falls into it himself". The private eye and his friend call on Kyoko when her husband is out and brutally rape her over and over again. By slow degrees, she gives herself up to the sexual pleasures she feels while being brutally treated. It is a sensation she had never experienced before, little knowing who had masterminded the tortures.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-07-20
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Secret Book: Turbulent Cloud
Overview: Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-07-06
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Last Day of the Red Light District: March 31, 1958
Overview: The lives and loves of several prostitutes are shown on the night the Prostitution Prevention Law goes into effect and criminalizes their profession.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-06-22
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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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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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Housewife's Experience: New Tenement Apartment
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-12-24
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Great Edo: Secret Story of a Female Doctor in Trouble
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-10-18
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Lady Kamakura: Cherry Boy Club
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-09-20
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Office Lady Journal: Indecent Relations
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-09-06
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Housewife's Experience: Tenement Apartment 2
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-07-23
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Housewife's Experience: Tenement
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-04-26
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Secret Book: Peeled Egg
Overview: Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-01-14
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Erotic Journey: Love Affair in Hong Kong
Overview: Akiko is a housewife bored with her marriage. She has an adulterous affair with a colleague of her husband and decides to follow him to Hong Kong where he has just been transferred. Akiko's husband goes out looking for them without success. Desperate, he lets himself be dragged into the underworld of the city by a mysterious Sino-Japanese man who plunges him into drugs and prostitiution until one day he finally learns the terrible truth about his unfaithful wife.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-08-04
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Competition: Married Couples Secret Technique
Overview: Inspired by a street interview about married sex life a TV food show host accidentally finds a way to help his little problem in bed.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-02-21
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The Beauty of Heaven and Hell
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-01-02
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Student Mistress: Taste of a Virgin
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-11-27
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Apartment Wife: Rainy Day Affair
Overview: On a rainy night, the lights in the windows of the apartment complex go out one by one. Chiaki Onda (Junko Miyashita) was waiting for her husband, Hajime (Akira Hanagami), who came home late tonight. Dinner is cold and the children are already asleep. A rift had already formed between Chiaki and Hajime, and sex was nothing more than a means of fulfilling Hajime's sexual desires, and there was no joy in it. An attraction to her classmate's driver awakens...
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-07-23
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Female Teacher's Diary Forbidden Sex
Overview: The film depicts the relationship between a beautiful teacher and a male teacher, popular among female students, an excellent student who tells the teacher about his feelings using an answering machine, and a high school student who bets on whether she can have a relationship with a male teacher. This is the debut full-length work by Hideo Nakata.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-09-08
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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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Tissue Paper By the Geisha's Pillow
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-01-22
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Junko's Bliss
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-03-04
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Tenement Apartment: Obscene Affair
Overview: The ordinary life of an executive’s wife is altered when she begins to attend a mysterious club that serves more than just tea.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-01-21
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Woman's Bedroom: Lusty Competition
Overview: A former mistress, an unhappy wife and a frisky female college student meet in a bar. It turns out that they all have developed an interest an eligible doctor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-12-23
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Office Lady Journal: Ruined Lust
Overview: Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-03-13
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Forbidden Ordeal
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-03-17
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Uno Kôichirô no Kai kurabe
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-07-19
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Shinran: Path to Purity
Overview: In the 12th century, Buddhism was still a relatively new religion in Japan. At that time, one school (Shingon) offered extensive training in complex and very demanding practices which might eventually bring about spiritual purification and realization. Various Zen schools offered students a lengthy path, literally composed of a blank wall and unceasing meditation. Yet another school (Tendai) emphasized complex metaphysics and the study of philosophical systems. Basically, all of them were designed to cater to the few who were able to give up everything else in their lives and focus on liberation, such as scholars and noblemen. In this historical and biographical drama, this is the situation that the young Shinran (1173-1263) discovered when he began exploring Buddhism as an alternative to the violence and ceaseless civil wars that racked Japan at the time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-06-02
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Miracle in Four Days
Overview: Dvorak's Symphony No. 9, "From the New World" wafts through a hospice recreation room. Sitting at the grand piano is a young girl, Chiori, with a prodigious ability to play any piece of music after one hearing. Keisuke Kisaragi whose career was abruptly cut short when he jumped in front of a bullet fired by a crazed gunman. The nerves in one hand were severed but he saved the life of Chiori. The tragic incident takes the lives of Chiori's parents, however, and Keisuke becomes her guardian. Not long after their return to Japan, Keisuke discovers Chiori's musical gift.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-06-04
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Portrait of the Wind
Overview: Portrait of the Wind centers on Tamio Murase, a world-traveling photographer who came home to take over the family business after his father’s fatal heart attack. One day at the family photo studio, he finds a kindred spirit in Ayako and the requisite sparks fly between them. The initial portions of the film deal with their budding romance, and it isn’t long before the two become a serious couple, and Ayako is pregnant with Tamio’s child.
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-10-15
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A Boy's Summer in 1945
Overview: Commencing well-respected Nippon director Kazuo Kuroki's sixth decade behind the camera, "A Boy's Summer in 1945" (literally "A Beautiful Summer in Kirishima") is a lyric, novelistic drama set in the countryside in the last days before Japan's surrender ending WWII. Striking a welcome retro note in its languid pacing and delicate handling of seriocomic ensemble threads, handsome production is a natural for fests. It might also prove a cornerstone for retrospectives or ancillary releases of works by a helmer ("Preparation of the Festival," "Ronin-gai") who's long been appreciated at home but has won just limited attention abroad.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-12-14
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The Rainbow Seeker
Overview: A young man fails his company entrance exams and leaves home to work at a run-down cinema in Tokushima, whose owner lives to bring entertaining films to the residents of his small town.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-12-28
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East Side Waltz Garden of Earthly Delights
Overview: Fukano, an elderly novelist who grew up in the mountains of Tokyo, met a young woman, Kana, for the first time in Fukagawa. Overcoming the age difference, they are strongly attracted to each other. However, in Fukano, in addition to the problem of downtown and uptown, there was a deep “river” that separated women and men. However, Kana, on the other hand, easily crossed that "river" due to her sexual love with Fukano. "I never thought I'd live west of the Sumida River," Kana said. However, behind this lies the conspiracy of Fukano's old lover, Junko. The two get married, but Kana's behavior is gradually haunted by a mystery, and the shadow of her detective and old man flickers. The core of the mystery involved a strange sex shop
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Life Back Then
Overview: Kyohei Nagashima (Masaki Okada) has shut away the world. During his high school days he was the target of bullying and experienced horrifying moments. Now as a young adult Kyohei takes a new job. He works for a company that specializes in cleaning out the homes of recently deceased individuals. With his new job Kyohei meets co-worker Yuki (Nana Eikura). Yuki has also experienced a traumatizing event as a teen and has also shut herself away from the world. These two young people form a bond as they go through the homes of the recently departed people. They gradually open up to each other and in the process to the world. Yet, their fragile psyches may or may not be ready for such changes ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-11-19
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Moment of Demon
Overview: Filled with guilt over his forbidden desires, a young man leaves home and his studies. He finds a new smaller place to stay, a low-paying but satisfying job and a girlfriend. Then his mother, unable to fight her forbidden desires, shows up.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-01-26
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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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Island of the Evil Spirits
Overview: Famous detective Kosuke Kindaichi follows a dying man's words to an enigmatic island, where he meets beautiful twin sisters and tragic events unfold.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-10-03
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Panic in High School
Overview: A parable about the inefficiency and anachronism of the Japanese educational system, which places an unusually large amount of importance on cramming for university entrance examinations, Panic High School is about the suicide of a high school student and its ensuing fallout at his school. When one of his classmates becomes frustrated with the math teacher's lack of sensitivity to the suicide, the student steals a rifle, returns to school, aerates the teacher's chest and then holds members of his class captive. This leads to an aggressive standoff with the police and lots of shots of his parents crying and bowing in shame, totally mortified.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-08-19
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Female Prisoner Scorpion: Death Threat
Overview: A woman who, disguised as a beggar, turns out to be a formidable assassin, is charged by a warden to infiltrate a women's prison, to run the one that took his eye with a wooden spoon carved from a knife - a woman named Nami Matsushima, known within the walls under the nickname of Scorpion.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-05-17
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Hell Worms
Overview: A group of bandits flee to the mountains after killing an evil moneylender. Remake of Hiroshi Inagaki's Jigoku no mushi (1938).
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-12-01
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Alone in the Night
Overview: An undercover narcotics officer is killed, and after his funeral some yakuza break into his apartment and rape his wife, Nami, while looking for the drugs they claim he stole from them. Afterwards Nami attempts to commit suicide, but after being rescued by a mysterious yakuza she decides to infiltrate the gang and get revenge.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-10-22
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Strike the White Ball
Overview: 1980 Japanese film distributed by Shochiku.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-02-16
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Estate Inheritance
Overview: The unexpected death of Fujishima Motoharu, president of a medium-sized firm, triggers a fierce battle over his estate inheritance among family members.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-10-20
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Dynamite Don-Don
Overview: Yakuza Gang War is at the height in North Kyūshū Area in the summer of 1950, particularly between the Okagen Group and the rising Hashiden Gang. Now with the mediation/interference of the Americans, they decide to settle it in a peaceful, *democratic* way, that is, to settle it with a baseball game. Now, with its money and power, The Hashiden group soon recruits a group of gamblers known to be good at baseball from the whole country. So, what is the Okagen Gumi gonna do?
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-10-07
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Kaidan kasane ~ke fuchi
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Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-08-21
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Call from Darkness
Overview: Keiko Inagawa (Asami Kobayashi) pays a visit to neurologist Aizawa about her fiancé Tatsuo Tamura (Kaoru Kobayashi). A mysterious case involving the disappearance of Tatsuo’s three brothers, one after the other, is yet to be resolved and now Tatsuo, seized with the idea that he too may disappear, has had a nervous breakdown. Aizawa suggests that Tatsuo recount his dreams as a means of solving the mystery, since human beings have an instinct that foretells the near future in the form of a dream. Keiko and Tatsuo eventually discover that the three disappearances have a strange connection…
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-09-26
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A Bridge of Tears
Overview: Japanese drama film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-06-17
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Dog of Fortune
Overview: From Hokkaido to Tokyo, hunting dog Goro embarks on a long and grueling journey to reach home. With the loss of his master who held a secret to a weapons smuggling case and the corruptions of those who are involved, Goro's adventure unfolds.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-06-02
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Early Spring Story
Overview: A high school student Hitomi poses as a university student and ends up in falling in love with middle-aged Okawa, her dead mother's ex-boyfriend. Hitomi's feelings shift back and forth as she is not sure whether it is true love or just a realization of her mother's romantic dream...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-09-14
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About Love, Tokyo
Overview: Looks at the lives of Chinese people in Japan.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-09-12
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Contemporary History of Rape in Japan
Overview: Pinku from 1972.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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The Dump Truck Rascal
Overview: Depicting the turbulent life of truck driver Takashi, his fellow drivers, and the women he meets.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-04-29
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Sex Family
Overview: A critique of the Japanese family, seen here as militaristic, absurdly incestuous and patriarchal. Nihilistic destruction by the young ones seems to be the only way out. This should be seen as Wakamatsu’s answer to Nagisa Oshima’s The Ceremony, made in the same year.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-12-12
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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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Shin Salaryman Senka
Overview: Based on the long running manga by Sadao Shouji.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-11-22
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Red Line Crossing
Overview: This is a mystery-thriller which is about the Jr.High School faculty members in Japan who prompt action for checking student's bag in secret to prevent the student crime.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-07-22
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The Final Parting
Overview: A young woman grows emotionally as she overcomes the deaths of those dear to her after meeting a female mortician..
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-03-24
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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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Skinless Night
Overview: Skinless Night (which borrows its title from a best-selling brand of condoms) centers on the 33-year-old Kayama Mutsuro, who supports his wife, child and a small team of employees by making porn videos. Profit margins are very low, the financier has his own troublesome ideas about the kind of tape he wants produced, the company office isn't an ideal environment for child-minding, and the job constantly throws up new challenges - like shopping for bondage gear or devising the special visual effects for a 'golden shower' scene. On top of everything else, Kayama is heading for a mid-life crisis. The rediscovery of his unfinished student film crystallizes his general sense of dissatisfaction, and leads him to rethink his life and work, to the chagrin of many of his friends, colleagues, and family members. Mochizuki's quasi-autobiographical début feature observes both the workings of the porn sub-culture and the spiritual problems of its central character.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-04-06
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Faraway Tomorrow
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-11-03
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Dan-no-ura Night
Overview: Taken out of the pages of history itself, this is the story of the sizzling love between Kenreimon-in of the Taira Clan and Yoshitsuné of the Minamoto Clan. When the Taira Clan had met ignominious defeat at the hands of Yoshitsuné, Kenreimon-in had jumped into the sea with her son, the infant Emperor, but only she had been rescued by Yoshitsuné. A rough-hewn warrior, Yoshitsuné had taken her by force until he awakened an answering love in the Empress with his chamber techniques.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-04-23
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Closed Ward
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Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-04-07
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Lowly Ronin 5: The Teenage Orphan Girl
Overview: When the 'Lowly Ronin' helps an orphaned teenage girl avoid being turned into a prostitute, she then claims he is her father and they start a farm as father and daughter until fate steps in and he must draw his sword.
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-04-08
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Kamome
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-03-04
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Ren
Overview: A girl has been sent back in time from 500 years in the future because she has been deemed unnecessary there. Naturally, she has trouble fitting in, until one day, she meets a mysterious transfer student...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-07-26
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オフィス妻のさけび
Overview: Natsuko is witnessed carrying on an affair with her boss, Misawa, by the unmarried Chieko. However, Chieko dies by falling and is found about ten days later in the shrubbery in front of the company. It is revealed that Chieko led a flashy private life and frequented a host club. Moreover, it seems that she was having an affair with Division Chief Yamazaki.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-05-25
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Hirusagari no joji: susurinaki
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-10-15
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Wet and Crying: Based On Aiko Nakayama's School of Widows
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-05-21
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A White Ship
Overview: Shizuka (Mami Nakamura) is a young school teacher. She moves to a small village by the sea, near her own home country. The elementary school she is assigned has only 20 students. But her last assignment was not very successful and she has lost the confidence. One day, a student finds a white ship sailing on the sea, far from the school. They begin an investigation and finally identifies the ship. It's a cruiser called Rainbow Love. 'Why don't we write a letter to the captain?' Shizuka proposes. And everyone gets excited...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-07-06
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Maruhi onsen anaba sagashi
Overview: Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-05-05
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Tsumatachi no gogo wa yori: kannō no ori
Overview: Time passes quietly without incident. Shizue lives peacefully as a wife. Masako, who is Shizue's friend and lives in Nagoya, uses Shizue as an alibi and comes to Tokyo several times a month to have an affair. When Shizue learns that Masako's cheating partner is Akira, a star athlete back in high school, a faint feeling of jealousy runs through her...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-05-01
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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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Ah! That Pep Squad
Overview: Life in the pep squad is all about harsh discipline. Seniors are "Gods", juniors are "Humans", sophomores are "Slaves" and freshmen are treated like "Trash". One sunny day, two freshmen are entrusted with the task to dry out the squadron's flag; the most cherished and symbolic item of the squad. When they accidentally burn a hole in the flag with a cigarette, they blame Aota. Aota attempts to take full responsibility by committing "harakiri", but changes his mind during the process – a deep stab to the stomach has inspired him with a better idea.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-08-21
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Ah! That Pep Squad 2 -Put on a Good Act-
Overview: “Get them all – girls, school credits, money – without an effort!" These are the rumors that freshman Hachirota Kawachi heard about the pep squad; his reasons for instant enrollment. Hachirota may fall a few screws short of a hardware store, but when it comes to yakuza ties, he has plenty. He is the direct descendant and heir to the notorious Akushin-kai gang. Although this was enough information to keep the pep squad seniors quiet, it’s not quite enough for Aota.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-12-25
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Okasareru
Overview: A husband runs a jewelry store, supported by his serious and chaste wife. It was an ordinary and peaceful marriage. One day, the husband was threatened by a man acting like a yakuza and wanted to sell smuggled, irregular jewelry at the store. When the husband could not refuse complications ensued.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-07-31
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Showtime
Overview: A stripper contends with bad boyfriends, a demanding boss and the yakuza while entertaining a nightly crowd of horny spectators.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-06-25
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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 Wicked
Overview: A selfish playboy uses rich women to pay off his debts. Divorcing his wife and marrying the woman he loves throws him into a spiral of destruction.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-06-28
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Gate of Flesh
Overview: The background is Yuraku-cho in Tokyo and the film shows how desperately the women, who had led sheltered lives before the war, struggled to keep alive and the innate strength of post-war women.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-12-24
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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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Under the Nagasaki Sky
Overview: Under the Nagasaki Sky
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-07-13
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Baian the Assassin
Overview: This is an ensemble period drama adapted from Shotaro Ikenami's popular novel, featuring the famous Kabuki actor brothers Kinnosuke Manya and Katsuo Nakamura, who made the transition from the Kabuki world to the film industry, and a cast of gorgeous and diverse faces. The Edo period. Nagato Abe, a Hatamoto (a feudal lord), is annoyed by his son's bad behavior, and when it becomes a hindrance to his own career, he asks Otowaya Hanemon, a black marketeer, to assassinate his son. The target is then taken care of by the assassin, Umeyasu. In order to keep his mouth shut, Nagatomon no Mamoru also attempts to take Otowaya's life. Nagato's brother-in-law, Omiya Sahei, a corrupt merchant from the Kamigata region, also plans to replace Otowaya as the head of Edo's black market business, so Umebayashi and his fellow trapper Hikojiro set out to eliminate them.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-04-11
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Umineko - Inseparable
Overview: The shock of her fiance's sudden dissolution of their relationship causes university student, Miki, to lose her voice. While recuperating in a hospital in her hometown of Hakodate, she learns of the tragic life of her deceased mother, Kaoru, from her grandmother.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-11-13
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Festival of Dreams
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-06-24
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Maestro!
Overview: Due to the economic recession, the orchestra is shut down. The members hear later that the orchestra will be reformed. Only some of the members, who have not yet been rehired, gather for the orchestra. For the first time since they disbanded the orchestra plays together, but they sound horrible. At that time, the conductor Tetsusaburo Tendou appears in front of them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-01-31
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The Farmer's Bride Requires Care! Part 2: The Organic Grand Strategy
Overview: Rumi, now accustomed to life on the farm, remains frustrated with her husband's continued lack of interest in their nighttime intimacy. One day, she begins to suspect that her husband might be falling for a dubious organic farming investment scheme. Following him, Rumi discovers the presence of an unusually seductive woman, but...
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-04-02
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The Farmer's Bride Requires Care! Part 1: Angel Descends
Overview: Rumi, married into a farming family, grows increasingly frustrated with her husband's lack of interest in their nighttime intimacy. Her only escape is karaoke nights with her fellow farmer wives at a local snack bar. One day, she learns that an elderly couple she met at the bar is on the verge of falling victim to a phone scam. Determined to stop the fraudsters, Rumi takes action to bring them down.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-04-02
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Woman Assault Escapee
Overview: The story of three boys who escape from prison, but their dream of freedom turns out to be nothing more than a dream. One is killed, one dies of an illness, and the remaining boy knocks on the prison door, begging to be let out...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-05-01
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Eagle of the Decotora: Festival Music
Overview: First film in the 'Decotora no Eagle' series.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-11
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Ekisutora
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-08-07
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