Akira Takahashi
Also Known As: 高橋明, Akira Takahashi
Biography: Japanese actor. Appeared in well over 100 Nikkatsu films during his career.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kyōto, Kyōto Prefecture, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: May 01, 1934
Age: 91 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: October 20, 2011
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Glowing, Growing
Overview: Glowing, Growing is a unique little movie produced entirely by film students in which two young outsiders join a mass suicide group in an attempt to gain freedom. Along the way they both re-discover the positive aspects of life, giving them the opportunity to weigh the pros and cons of choosing to live or die
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-10-11
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Family Crest: Loyalty Offering Hell
Overview: Nonaka Tetsugoro, a substitute for the Aoi group, held a flower party to celebrate the complete recovery of his boss. However, three rival bosses, trying to steal the Aoi's territory, made take-over plans in the shadows. The second in the two part Daimon series movies.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-06-24
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Aniki
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-27
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The Four Roughnecks
Overview: Gimme gimme gimme! Yusaku Matsuda and his gang are on the hunt for women, money and more money! Takeo Natsuki (Yusaku Matsuda) was just released from prison. He was the leader of three rascals; all they did was cause trouble. When they meet a girl whose father is resisting a forced eviction to make way for a construction site, they come up with their own plans to solve the problem.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-11-22
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The Angry Rambler
Overview: Fourth installment of Nikkatsu's "Drifter" series, with Kobayashi Akira.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-11-16
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Woods Are Wet
Overview: Sachiko has just committed a crime. She is helped by a couple to whom she grants her confidence. Quickly this couple blackmails her and threatens to deliver her to the police. Sachiko has no other choice but to obey them.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-05-23
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Flower & Snake
Overview: Shizuka is the aristocratic wife of the president of a large company. When she wants to divorce her domineering husband, he orders his employee Yoshi, the son of an adult toy store owner, to train his wife to become sexually submissive.
Genres: Thriller Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-06-22
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Star of David: Beauty Hunting
Overview: The film portrays the life of Tatsuya, a young man of proper descent whose outward respectability hides his urges for rape and torture. This handsome rapist seduces women, then brings them to the basement of the mansion he inherited from his well-to-do parents, where he indulges in lengthy sessions of sado-sexual violence. Based on manga by Masaaki Sato.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-10-27
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Prostitution Gang
Overview: With a title like that... you just have to watch it.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-08-13
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Joseito
Overview: An obscure Nikkatsu Roman Porno movie.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-01-20
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Runa's Confession: 'Men Crawling All Over Me'
Overview: A semi-autobiographical semi-documentary about the career of real life J-pop singer Runa Takamura and the men in her life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-04-14
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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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Female Teacher: Secret
Overview: A male high school student becomes obsessed with his teacher and uses various schemes including exposing her philandering husband to have sex with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-10-21
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Fully Opened: Sisters Exposed
Overview: A sister lives with her other two sisters who work as strippers.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-04-03
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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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Rope Cosmetology
Overview: After meeting an artist who specializes in the practice of BDSM a married couple decides to spice up their marriage with a little bit of doggie training. Woof. Woof.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-12-02
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Shiroi ominaeshi
Overview: Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-04-08
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Foreigner's Mistress Oman: Tempestuous Skin
Overview: "After leaving the Yakuza, Oman embraces a quiet normal life - only to be dragged back into a world of violence, when seeking revenge for the brutal murder of those close to her." - Adapted from the late October 1972 issue of Kinema Junpo
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-08-26
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The Hell-Fated Courtesan
Overview: The story of a courtesan that was once popular in Yoshiwara. She is good-looking, but for some reason, three of her customers died unnaturally, one after another. As a result, she is feared by potential customers, and no one cares for her...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-04-14
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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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Manatsu no Yoru no Jôji
Overview: Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-07-27
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Seduction 2: Embrace of the White Angel
Overview: Sexual soap opera involving hospital staff. Loose sequel to Seduction of the White Angel.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-11-08
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Carlos
Overview: V-cinema classic about a wanted Brazilian Japanese gangster who flees to Tokyo and fights yakuza.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-01-25
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Cruelty: Black Rose Torture
Overview: In pre-war Japan, Yumiko, an aristocratic lady, accompanied by her maid, travels to Tokyo to visit her brother. Unaware that her brother has become involved in anti-governmental activities and left the city, the two women are captured, raped and tortured by the military police. Two years later, during the war, the government confiscates Yumiko's estate, turning it into a torture chamber for the inquisition of prisoners. Yumiko and her maid are among those who are subjected to sexual indignities.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-04-26
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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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Night of the Felines
Overview: Set in a Shinjuku bathhouse brothel, the film uncovers the sexual eccentricities of everyday people. Focusing on three female prostitutes, the colorful, unpredictable look into the hidden underbelly of Japanese nightlife is playful but also unafraid to explore the darker sides of the business. The fleeting nature of relationships in such an environment and the consequences of toying with feelings are presented with a melancholy tinge.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-05-17
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Love Affair in Purgatory
Overview: Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-03-14
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Japan's Pleasure District: Three Sisters at a Turkish Bath
Overview: Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-04-04
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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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Sometimes... Like a Prostitute
Overview: A man with a medical condition and a guilty past becomes obsessed with a simple minded girl he finds in a park. His wife is not thrilled when he brings her home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-09-23
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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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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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Coed Report: Yuko's White Breasts
Overview: Yuko is an innocent high school girl who has a crush on her gym teacher. She and her friends have a sleep-over party which develops into a sexual dare-game involving eels, and a lesbian orgy. Now sexually-awakened, Yuko decides to seduce her teacher, but is raped in an elevator before she meets her teacher.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-12-01
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The Slave Wife
Overview: An arrogant and privileged lady of wealth finds she is in need of a loan. The man who offers to help her was a former chauffeur who she had mistreated and fired. Seeing his chance for revenge he captures her and subjects her to various humiliations and abuse.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-06-12
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Image of a Bound Girl
Overview: A professor of erotic art sees his chance to practice what he teaches when by happenstance he meets a suicidal high school girl. Unsure at first how to bind and discipline his captive he is assisted by a bartender who shows him the finer details of bondage on his own slave. As he continues to subject his captive to more intense S&M training he risks both his academic position and his marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-03-01
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Secretary Rope Discipline
Overview: Secretary Sayo does some corporate snooping for her boyfriend, an upstart executive with a rival company. But she gets busted by the CEO. Poor Sayo is captured and taken to a private torture chamber in the corporate mansion. While the secretary gets punished, the bossman's son becomes infatuated with her beautiful white skin and he assumes the disciplinary responsibilities. Between the floggings, stretchings, and wooden-horse tortures he finds time to cover her body in an elaborate tattoo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-05-29
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Skin of Roses
Overview: Ritsuko is a popular madame of a nightclub but, ever since her gangster husband got caught and imprisoned, her life has taken a turn for the worst. Now, in order to pay off his debts to a yakuza loan shark, Ritsuko is forced to engage in private sex shows for the VIP clientele. After a year of these special shows, the loan is almost paid off.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-09-09
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Distant Thunder
Overview: A young man living on growing tomatoes in a greenhouse in a residential area. Tomato cultivation is as doomed as his personal life where he tries to keep alive his romance with the eccentric Kaede and parents selected fiancee Ayako.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-10-23
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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 Education Mistresses
Overview: An erotic comedy depicting the sex adventures of young wives living in an apartment complex, that are not satisfied with just having sex with their husbands.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-11-20
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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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Dangerous Liaisons
Overview: Pierre Choderlos de Laclos' 18th-century epistolary novel 'Les Liaisons dangereuses' is adapted to a contemporary setting. An abominable and burning jealousy and an evil relationship between a man and a woman unfold in the nature of a game. Eventually, jealousy will deeply hurt the true love of a chaste married woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-03-18
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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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Love Makes Me Wet
Overview: Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-07-25
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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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Furusato poruno-ki: Tsugaru shikoshiko bushi
Overview: Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-07-20
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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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The World of Geisha 2 – The Precocious Lad
Overview: Shotaro, a young man who was kidnapped as a baby by a prostitute, lives and entertains in a seaside brothel. He often has to spend the night in the same room with other geishas when a rich patron takes over his room to be entertained by his favorite mistress. There he learns more about sex than many adults. So his adventures begin with both women and men.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-02-16
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Damp Bank Notes
Overview: The dull and disappointing life of an office lady is enlivened when she meets hot younger lover. But in order to keep him and feed his gambling obsession she resorts to crime.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-02-06
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Joyous Moments
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-08-09
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Great Edo: Secret Story of a Female Doctor in Trouble
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-10-18
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Jitsuroku: Ganso manaita shô
Overview: Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-01-14
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The Goddess in the Boys' School
Overview: Miss Yamagami is beautiful with a willowy figure and slender legs. She seems out of place teaching in an all boys school. The young school marm is fully aware of her power over the impressionable boys in school and it satisfies her vanity. She stirs up their nameless longings until they are carried away and resort to acts on which Miss Yamagami had not counted on.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-06-04
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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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Hot Spring Resort: Geishas vs. Ozashiki Strippers
Overview: In a rural town the local elders and a band greet the arrival of a troupe of strippers. After a show two men who claim to be show biz producers make the elders an offer. If enough funds can be raised they will make their favorite lead stripper a star. Is this an offer too good to be true?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-05-17
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Inran'na kankei
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-04-14
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Kōshoku biyōshi: Nikutai no hōshū
Overview: The film is an adaptation of Nakano Yu's play "Sexual Beauty Techniques," serialized as a manga.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-02-03
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Apartment Wife: Flesh Financing
Overview: A comedy about apartment wives who take advantage of a loan shark when their husbands can't earn enough money.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-03-06
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Red Light Tobita Brothel
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-05-10
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Kairaku Shôten-buro
Overview: A con man convinces a group of spa owners that he is surveying their area for a new road. Hoping to gain his approval the owners ply him with extra friendly service.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-12-08
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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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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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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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Dead End
Overview: A man and woman meet when he pulls her out of an icy fountain that she has just jumped into. But their developing romance is marred by bad friends, money troubles and illegal sex work.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-03-04
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Lusty Afternoon
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-02-01
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Pink Salon: 'We're Waiting for You with Tissue Paper'
Overview: A woman works at a massage parlor to earn money for her daughter. Filmed on location.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-07-09
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Hoshi no hitomi o motsu otoko
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-08-05
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Nokezoru onna
Overview: A female prisoner escapes from the law but she can’t escape from her carnal desires.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-11-21
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Shutchô toruko: Mata yukimasu
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-04-01
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Story of Japanese Chivalry: Flower of a Chivalrous Man
Overview: In the early years of the twentieth-century a young gambler returns to his home town where he finds the gang of which he was once a member engaged in a feud with a rival gang. Though he successfully settles their differences he is turned out of the organization for the way in which accomplishes it. Upon his return he finds that the fortunes of the group have declined - there has been treachery and desertion. This time with the approval of the seniors he settles the differences with a duel. After winning, however, he declines the position of gang-boss, preferring his freedom, and once more leaves town.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-06-15
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Koichiro Uno's Nurse's Dormitory
Overview: A film adaptation of Koichiro Uno's original work that depicts the madness and debauchery that unfolds in a nurses' dormitory where men are strictly prohibited.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-08-05
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Hatachi no sei hakusho: Nokezoru
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-02-18
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Izumi Daihachi no okashikko
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-10-21
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High School Emanuelle: Wet Saturday
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-10-07
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Ore wa Jigoku no Butaichou
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-04-28
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Ryōjoku: Komasu
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-05-19
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Koichiro Uno's Wet and Open
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-01-16
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Duel in the Storm
Overview: It is the Taisho era in Japan. A man has quit the Yakuza after five years and returned to Shikoku in order to begin his life anew as a ferryman. His boss, however, became ill and the boat is taken due to unpaid debts to the local thugs. His new life has not begun well and he is determined to rebuild the shattered business. The Yakuza, however, have added the ferry business to the rest of their portfolio of local concerns.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-08-01
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Morning Frenzy
Overview: An ordinary department store girl who was betrayed by her boyfriend accidentally comes across a large sum of money, and men who are after her money gather around her..
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-10-05
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Shiroi mesuneko: mahiru no ecstasy
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-11-01
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Rapewoman: Dirty Sunday
Overview: A single woman starts receiving obscene phone calls at home. Feeling fearful she stays at the apartment of her best friend but somehow the pervert starts calling her there too. Feeling hopeless she gives in and agrees to meet at a restaurant. But when the woman and her friend arrive they discover it is managed by the man they both had relationships with. This was why they were let go from their previous jobs. They both decide it’s time for a little payback.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-11-13
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Rorikon hausu: Oshimeri Junko
Overview: A high school girl lives by herself in her parent’s apartment. They deserted her and each other they both took lovers. Feeling lonely she signs up as a mistress at a “Lolicon House” to service middle-aged men.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-11-18
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Joshidaisei no kokuhaku: Akai yûwakusha
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-04-12
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Rape Shot: Momoe's Lips
Overview: Toru, a down and out tabloid reporter is looking for his next “big” story. In order to get paid decent money in the supermarket rag business, you need to find controversy! The elusive “Momoe” is forbidden fruit, so he sets his sights on Miki Yoko, an up and coming young singing sensation. She’s young and beautiful and Toru thinks her record company is pumping her full of drugs. He will do anything to get a story, even assaulting her and tailing her everywhere she goes. One night, she is kidnapped right in front of him and, with his reporter instincts at work, Toru’s life spirals into a torrid world of sex, drugs, and corruption in the entertainment business. In his quest for a huge story, will he come out unscathed?
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-06-23
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Kenjū wa samishī otoko no uta sa
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-10-21
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Women Smell of Night
Overview: A 1970 crime film.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-12-06
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Showa Erotica: The Lady of the Rose
Overview: The story of a noble femme fatale in 1941 in Japan.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-02-02
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Battle Under Orion
Overview: The story of a Japanese sub's last mission during WWII.
Genres: Drama Action War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-06-13
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Kairaku Onsenkyô: Nyotaiburo
Overview: As rumors spread about a hidden treasure worth 300 billion yen buried somewhere in the hills near a local inn and hot spring a large number of people check in with two things on their mind… treasure hunting by day and sex hunting at night. The geishas at the inn have their hands full as the inn is fully booked. A shrewd rich tycoon makes an offer to the owner to buy the inn. But she dismisses his offer and names a much higher price. The tycoon is reluctant until news that some actual gold pieces have been unearthed. But is the timing of this “news” a little too convenient?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-12-11
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True Story of a Woman in Jail: Sex Hell
Overview: A nurse is framed for medical malpractice. In prison she meets the boss of their cell who is in for a crime of passion. They both have a reason to escape... revenge.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-03-05
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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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Secret Chronicle: Prostitution Market
Overview: Sold into prostitution by her "uncle", a young girl is so innocent and naive that she doesn't know what she has to do.
Genres: History Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-09-16
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Path of the Beast
Overview: 17 year old Saki lives in a run-down shack with her mom, who survives by pushing a food cart from dawn to dusk. Saki has dropped out of school, and when she's not helping her mother selling noodles in the streets, she's playing flesh-games with boyfriend Sotoo. In her spare time, the girl also entertains a truck driver named Ataru. She believes her promiscuity is a trait inherited from her mom. Determined to improve her lot in life, Saki decides to stop seeing the two guys.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-03-29
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Delinquent Girl: Alley Cat In Heat
Overview: A naive country girl runs away to the city and gets picked up by a kindly well dressed man. She soon finds that life can be cruel.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-05-31
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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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The Elder Sister
Overview: Follows the struggles of a yakuza wife after his husband gets hurt in a knife fight.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-06-09
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No Grave for Us
Overview: A plot to steal money from gangsters leads to trouble...
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-05-26
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Lady Black Rose
Overview: An impotent husband hires a photographer, a professional SM mistress and his driver to kidnap his wealthy but unfaithful wife. After she is photographed while being sexually abused, she is blackmailed into giving control of her estate to her husband. Put in the basement she suffers an endless series of humiliations and indignities. But fate has some cruel twists in store.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-04-01
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Yakyukyo no uta
Overview: Live-action adaptation of Shinji Mizushima's manga.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-03-19
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Fight of the Gamblers
Overview: Ryuji Oshima, a gambler, kills Saiga in self-defense, and considering himself unfit to lead men, secludes himself in a temple to atone for his misdeeds. At home, when his mother, the boss of a construction gang, bids for and gets the job of building the Town Hall, other gangs set out to disrupt her business and try to kill her.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-12-25
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Ryuji
Overview: Ryuji tries quitting the yakuza to actively support his wife and daughter; as he's used to easy money, it's a difficult transition.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-10-29
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Rape! 13th Hour
Overview: A serial rapist takes on a young protégé to his craft as he is pursued by a homosexual gang seeking vengeance for an attack on their leader.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-01-22
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Wet Highway
Overview: With her wedding only one day away, Mina spends a night with her former lover Ozaki at a highway motel on the outskirts of Yokohama. On her way back from her last adventure, Mina’s car hits a hippie-like youth called Ryo. Shocked by the accident and, moreover, left alone by Ozaki, who hated to be involved in the trouble, Mina places the unconscious youth in the back seat and drives toward a lake...
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-12-29
Popularity:
Kanto County Sex Unit
Overview: Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-12-26
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Gypsy Rose: A Docu-Drama
Overview: The film depicts the private life wrapped in the mysterious veil of the dancer Gypsy Rose, who was known as the Monroe of Japan and enthused a wide range of fans.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-02-06
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Oryu's Passion: Bondage Skin
Overview: When the boss of a yakuza clan in 1920s Osaka is assassinated, Oryu, his mistress, vows revenge. Her search for the killer takes her out of the city. The old boss' son proves a poor leader, only interested in Omitsu, his high-class girlfriend. Yajima, the second-in-command, is taking advantage of the situation to accumulate power for himself...
Genres: Crime Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-06-18
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Yakuza Justice: Erotic Code of Honor
Overview: Monk Seigen saves Misako the daughter of an area Yakuza boss from some tough guys. The two become a couple and find themselves being pursued by some criminals. Seigen plunges deeper into a life of crime and sin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-07-14
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Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!
Overview: Tajima is a private detective in charge of his own company, Detective Bureau 2-3. When warring criminal gangs go overboard by robbing U.S. military munitions, Tajima steps in to stop what the cops can't.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-01-27
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Black Panther Bitch M
Overview: An assassin trained as a ninja carries the code name M. Hayami is a yakuza boss and a divorced father who is not allowed to come near his young daughter Mutsumi from his ex-wife Kazuko. In the big port city of Yokohama, M targets Hayami, who has angered the president of his group.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-08-14
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Five Pink Girls
Overview: A movie based on Saikaku Ihara’s “Five Women Who Loved Love”, which depicts women such as strippers and married women becoming hostesses in a pink salon.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-11-03
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Confessions of An Adolescent Wife: Ecstasy
Overview: Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-01-15
Popularity:
Dead Blossoms
Overview: After having served a prison sentence Oman is released only to find that her sister is in the clutches of a group of Yakuza lowlifes. Once again Oman has to take action.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-04-29
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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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Morning of Ecstasy
Overview: Roman Porno from 1972.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-06-07
Popularity:
Tattooed Life
Overview: After his own gang sets him up to kill a rival mobster, a hit man is forced to flee with his younger brother.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-11-13
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Girl’s Pleasure: Man Hunting
Overview: Two high school friends. One witnesses the breakup of her family after a brutal home invasion. The other loses her virginity to an African-American soldier. Together they make a vital discovery and exact violent revenge.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-05-21
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Lovers Are Wet
Overview: A young man named Katsu comes to a rural town by the sea, and begins to work as a movie reel carrier in a movie theater. Apparently this town is the hometown of Katsu, but no matter how many residents of the town ask, "Is it Katsu?" he just laughs. The wife of the cinema owner that has become involved with Katsu is interested in his past ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-03-24
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Rolling on the Road
Overview: George is a washed-up middle-aged punk rocker, who divorces his wife and lives with his girlfriend, a soap massage parlor worker. His life becomes even more of a mess when the nurse he raped moves in with them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-10-23
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Woman of the Afternoon: Incite!
Overview: Yuki picks up a gay hitchhiker after leaving her husband's house following an argument. When the hitchhiker discovers his boyfriend having sex with a woman, he decides to keep traveling with Yuki. They reach a diner, which is filled with scummy Deliverance rejects who proceed to rape and torture them.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-04-14
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Assault!
Overview: A bar-owner named Kuroki, forlornly waits for his adulterous wife to get back from messing around with her boyfriend. She returns, but because she's been fooling around with gangsters she brings trouble with her. Kuroki gets tied up and beaten, his wife and customers get tortured and raped, and it is finally up to the mousy cuckold to set things right, Straw Dogs-style.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-10-20
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Love Me Tenderly, Love Me Wildly
Overview: Yuichi prides himself on the fact that he is a family man but contrary to his conception of an ideal family life, at age 24, his wife has already run out on him. In utter confusion, he tries to reason out where he had gone amiss that such a thing should happen out of the clear blue sky. About this time, Yuichi helps Ayako, a young girl, embroiled in trouble. She returns Yuichi's kindness by making off with his precious camera. Then she returns and since his wife has washed her hands of him, he forces himself on Ayako who acts as if she had been waiting for him to enter her. Suddenly, Yuichi's wife returns...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-04-28
Popularity:
Retaliation
Overview: Emerging from a stint in prison, yakuza lieutenant Sumukawa discovers that his gang has disintegrated. An ambitious type, he quickly hooks up with another gang who promise him a prominent position if he helps them deal with a rival family. But bonds are made to be broken, and pledges of loyalty soon give way to competition, betrayal and — naturally — retaliation.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-10-05
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Rope and Breasts
Overview: A husband and wife are on the road doing a traveling BDSM show at various seedy locations. The wife is getting bored with the show and wants to quit. But while on tour in Kyoto a wealthy man and his proper looking wife invite them to do a private show. Little do they know that their stage routine is just child’s play compared to what the couple have in mind for them.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-01-07
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Woman with Wet Fingers
Overview: Real-Life stripper Madoka Mika plays the fictional ROSE RED, a former striptease queen who is now doing roadshow engagements while trying to raise her child and balance her love affairs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-04-20
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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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Call of the Pistil
Overview: The directorial debut of Masaru Konuma, penned by Keiichi Ozawa using the pseudonym "Fuyuhiko Hagi". Masako is a journalist, and she is raped while researching a story. The rape causes her to develop amnesia, so her brother devises a novel way to get her memory back -- he has her boyfriend rape her again. It doesn't work, so the brother and boyfriend do more research, discovering that Masako was raped by an African-American soldier. As might be expected, they then hire a black GI to rape the poor girl yet a third time...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-12-18
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Sex Hunter: Wet Target
Overview: While rotting away in jail, Okamoto learns of the death of his beloved sister, Natsuko. Violently assaulted by a group of U.S. military men during a drunken joyride, she was found dead by local authorities. Haunted by the tragedy, Okamoto escapes from jail to hunt down and kill those who destroyed the life of his sister. What he uncovers during his investigation is much more horrifying than he could ever imagine...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-11-29
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Horu in Rabu: Kusamura no Yokujô
Overview: A female professional golfer who was banished on suspicion of being addicted to stimulants now works the golf courses as a hustler.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-11-23
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Love Hunter
Overview: Kyōko is a woman with a promiscuous past who is sexually unsatisfied with her marriage. Her frustrations lead her to have hedonistic dreams, such as her mother and grandfather having sex together. Seeking to rejuvenate her marriage, she throws a wild party. The ploy is a success.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-01-19
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Branded to Kill
Overview: After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another assassin.
Genres: Thriller Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-06-15
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Step on the Gas!
Overview: Yūji, fresh out of prison on parole, meets a stranger named Nao that asks for his assistance...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-10-24
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Velvet Hustler
Overview: A young yakuza hitman named Goro does a job and needs to hideout away from Tokyo for a while. He hangs out with loose women and hard men and always manages to stay one step ahead of the law. In his exile, he comes under suspicion for a murder and meets the girlfriend of the murdered man. They develop a strange bond while unbeknown to Goro, another hitman is after him for the job he did in Tokyo.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-10-06
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Blind Woman's Curse
Overview: Akemi is a dragon tattooed leader of the Tachibana Yakuza clan. In a duel with a rival gang Akemi slashes the eyes of an opponent and a black cat appears, to lap the blood from the gushing wound. The cat along with the eye-victim go on to pursue Akemi’s gang in revenge, leaving a trail of dead Yakuza girls, their dragon tattoos skinned from their bodies.
Genres: Crime Horror Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-06-20
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Midnight Virgin
Overview: Chie (Sanae Ōhori), newly arrived in Tokyo, saves her friend from school, Mari (Annu Mari), from a suicide attempt. The two girls become close, eventually leading to a lesbian relationship. Their affair drifts into sadism and involvement with a bizarre sex cult, resulting in the deaths of the two lovers.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-04-18
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Rape Hunter: Target Woman
Overview: Fuyuko, a married woman filled with grief after a miscarriage, has an affair with a younger man and finds herself involved in a robbery plot. For Fuyuko, who is at an impasse, there is no longer "family", "love" and "freedom".
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-02-02
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Showdown in Gangland
Overview: Rivalry between two young gangster groups who seek to extend their influence.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-03-07
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Dreams of Tokyo, Dreams of Cinema
Overview: A documentary about cinematographer Gabriel Veyre's adventures introducing cinema to Japan and South America. Veyre was a traveling cameraman for the Lumiere Co. He declared cinema dead only 2 years after its inception after he saw a villager jerk a woman's head to face the camera when he was filming a small group of them.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-08-14
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Outlaw: Gangster VIP
Overview: Goro had grown up in the yakuza world. As an active member of the Mizuhara family crime syndicate, he expressed his loyalty by always putting himself in the forefront of every battle. Violence never bothered him. However, after being sentenced to three years in prison for stabbing a rival gang’s hit man, he becomes disenchanted with the Yakuza life style. Goro is determined to start anew, but karma catches up. His two closest friends are murdered by his ex-boss. He is left with two options: to kill or be killed.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-01-13
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Outlaw: Gangster VIP 2
Overview: Goro (Tetsuya Watari) wants to put his dark past behind. He heads to Hirosaki City to offer his condolences to Yumeko and to reunite with Yukiko (Chieko Matsubara), but finds that Yumeko is fatally ill. Although Yukiko was taking care of her, she is pressed for money. Goro wants to help and knows that there is only one way to come up with fast money.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-04-28
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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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Retreat Through the Wet Wasteland
Overview: A group of corrupt police detectives go on a manhunt for an ex-collogue who they believe could blow their whole rotten operation wide open.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-06-23
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Afternoon Affair: Transformation
Overview: A young boy’s dream of a woman is entrusted to the love of a flower. When that beautiful flower withers and the boy discovers the ugliness of women’s true nature, he vows revenge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-01-24
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An Unforgettable Affair
Overview: Toshihiko, a high school boy, hates Kozo, his father, enough to kill him. His mother had lived in terror of him and, at last, broken in spirit, she had left and her pitiful departing figure is still seared in Toshihiko's mind. Soon, Kozo marries Asako who is young and beautiful. An idea forms in Toshihiko's mind to get even with his father for the shabby way he had treated his mother. He wonders if he can do it through Asako.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-06-03
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Blood for Blood
Overview: The Akiba and Shimura crime families run the streets of “K City”. With the construction of new buildings and new factories underway, the city has sprouted into a boomtown and business is good. Two of the most infamous mobs of Tokyo want a piece of the pie. As out-of-town yakuza flood the city overnight, the crime boss of the Akiba family, Tezuka (Joe Shishido), is released from prison after a five year sentence. He does not like the "change" he sees.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-06-10
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Blue Rain Osaka
Overview: A woman who runs a bar with her older sister has her life disrupted when she has a chance meeting with an old lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-07-08
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The Guys Who Put Money on Me
Overview: An unofficial sequel to Million Dollar Match (1961) which also starred Koji Wada as a young energetic boxer. This story deals more with betting action surrounding a boxing match, concentrating mostly on the high-powered Yakuza gambling dens.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-09
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Bad Girl Mako
Overview: Patronized by a gang ruling the city, Mako delinquently plays around a night club every night with her bad company. One night, a guy Hideo gets closer to her for one-night stand, and they consequently fall in love. However, Hideo is killed by the gang. Mako swears vengeance on her beloved's murderer.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-08-25
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Shabu
Overview: Makabe is a yakuza who is addicted to 'shabu' (a slang refers to stimulant drug). He lives as if he wants to destroy himself. He steals a mistress of the boss of a big yakuza syndicate by force. He takes over the yakuza group he belongs to, by killing the old boss. When he tries to use 'shabu' as the main financial resource of his group, it leads to the serious confrontation with another big yakuza syndicate.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-05-28
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Rabu gēmu: Wa owaranai
Overview: A young woman who runs a bar from a small truck gets in trouble with some hapless yakuza when her drunk boyfriend gets into a fight with them.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-05-28
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Fighting Elegy
Overview: Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelings, joins a gang, gets in fights and, eventually, becomes involved with the radical Kita Ikki group.
Genres: Comedy Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-11-09
Popularity:
Red Handkerchief
Overview: A hot-shot detective in Yokohama kills a witness during a drug investigation. He flees to the countryside and evades his past for several years, only to return to find the woman he loved married to his former partner. He searches for answers to his troubled past, knowing that his inevitable doomed fate is more or less sealed.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-01-03
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The Symbol of a Man
Overview: In 1936, under the war clouds over the Manchurian border, 60-year-old Shozaburo Oshima is concerned about the future of his only son, Ryuji, who has refused to follow in the footsteps of his gambler father and decided to become a doctor. Ryuji leaves home to work at a clinic at a dam construction site where he finds the treatment of the laborers intolerable. But when he challenges the boss, who thinks nothing of murder, he discovers to his astonishment that he is safe because of his father's reputation. Torn between filial piety and his ideals, Ryuji is told of the murder of his father by men of a rival gang. He experiences another shock when informed that the woman behind the rival gang is his true mother who was forced to leave his father due to an unwritten code among gamblers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-07-14
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The Day of Youth
Overview: At Tokyo Gakuen University, Takema, son of Tatsunosuke, chief of the Waku gang, is a freshman who wishes to prepare himself for a better life away from gang activities despite the wishes of his father who wants him to assist strengthen the gang against the Kawano group. Takema's classmate, Akiko, is the daughter of Eiko who operates a restaurant, and through her he obtains a lodging in the house of Shiu, a dancing mistress. The students enjoy their life, but most have their troubles. Sakamoto works as a laborer on the docks to help pay for his schooling, and Akiko worries over the relationship between her mother and Sakurai, a corrupt politician, suspected to be involved in graft over jet aircraft.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-04-29
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The Man with a Shotgun
Overview: Ryoji, a wanderer, arrives in a remote mountain town, carrying a shotgun and claiming to be a hunter. He quickly becomes embroiled in a web of trouble surrounding the town's mill.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-06-03
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Ecstasy of the Black Rose
Overview: After his leading actress becomes pregnant and wants to quit, Juzo, an adult film director, becomes obsessed with finding the woman whose moaning he captured secretly at a dentist’s office to star in the film instead.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-08-09
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Professional Sex Performers: A Docu-Drama
Overview: The world of secret sex performers is shown through the lives of a husband and wife team. Their manager must contend with pesky customers and a determined detective.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-01-26
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Gate of Flesh
Overview: In the shady black markets and bombed-out hovels of post–World War II Tokyo, a tough band of prostitutes eke out a dog-eat-dog existence, maintaining tenuous friendships and a semblance of order in a world of chaos. But when a renegade ex-soldier stumbles into their midst, lusts and loyalties clash, with tragic results. With Gate of Flesh, visionary director Seijun Suzuki delivers a whirlwind of social critique and pulp drama, shot through with brilliant colors and raw emotions.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-05-31
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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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Noble Lady Bound Vase
Overview: A cruel and sadistic landowner buys a daughter from a noble samurai family who had incurred a large debt. Months later, the landowner's sister comes to visit, and discovers that the new wife is secretly in love with another man. The wife suffers various humiliations for her indiscretions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-12-10
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Female Teacher: Dirty Rumor
Overview: A schoolteacher gets a phone call regarding one of her female students. It seems that the young girl has been accused of prostitution, and requests help from her teacher. The young girl's situation brings to mind some dark incidents from the teacher's past that she is still trying to deal with.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-03-03
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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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Seishojo: hito natsu no keiken
Overview: A young man has a chance encounter with a naked woman while collecting butterflies. She leads him to experiences he will never forget.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-07-21
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A Certain Seductive Summer
Overview: Saeko had an affair with Kuno, a photographer, but after the car they were driving in had an accident, she has withdrawn into a villa in Shonan. One day, she meets Shinji, who rides his motorcycle in front of her beach villa every day.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-07-07
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Young Beast: Secret Pleasures
Overview: Yasuji Hajima runs a butcher shop. When he was younger, he was just as interested in the sex as the next man but lately he has a hard time satisfying his wife who is still oversexed at her age. The Hajimas have one son, Shuichi, who is studying to enter Tokyo University. It is after he sees his parents acting in which he considers an odious manner that he changes entirely and raises the roof in every whichever way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-09-09
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Don't Look Up
Overview: On the set of a dark war time drama at an old movie studio, a young director, Toshio Murai, is trying to complete his debut film. The two starring actresses, Hitomi Kurokawa and Saori Murakami, play sisters in his film. Murai has a crush on Hitomi, the seasoned leading actress, and keeps a photo of her by his bed. The younger and less experienced actress, Saori, is annoying and likes to have recess on the set. The production of the movie is consistently interrupted by strange occurrences and the cast and crew begin to get spooked.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-03-22
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Outlaw: Goro the Assassin
Overview: On a cold winter day, Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) and Masahiko murder the mob boss of Meishin-Kai. The deed costs them time in prison, but Goro had no shred of regret. When Goro is released 2 years later, Masahiko is dying in prison hospital and entrusts his last wish; "find my sister and take care of her." Goro leaves as a free man with a mission, but soon finds that he might have been better off in jail.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-11-02
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Outlaw: Black Dagger
Overview: A street war breaks loose between two rival gangs in the Kansai region of Japan. Goro is in the middle of action. Through a knife fight against Sueo, a high profile gangster from Busou-kai, Goro notices a familiar face approaching him from amidst the chaos - his girlfriend, Yuri. Goro had sent her to safety, but she had returned, aching to see him. Caught between Goro and his enemy knife, she reunites with her love - the price was her life.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-12-28
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Outlaw: Kill!
Overview: Goro has always been a lone wolf. When he arrives at an industrial city in Keihin, there is certain restlessness in the air. The Iriezaki family and the Kanto Touyu-kai were in the midst of a territorial dispute. Goro was quick to notice, but had no intent to take sides. At a department store nearby, he sees an elevator lady being harassed by a couple of hoodlums. Goro decides to intervene. Unbeknownst to him, the hoodlums are Touyu-kai members – and the girl has strong ties with the opposing family.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-03-14
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The Call of Blood
Overview: Two brothers seek revenge on the yakuza responsible for the death of their father.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-10-03
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Story of a Prostitute
Overview: Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the brutal Lieutenant Narita but falls for the sensitive Mikami, Narita's direct subordinate. Seijun Suzuki's Story of a Prostitute is a tragic love story as well as a rule-bending take on a popular Taijiro Tamura novel, challenging military and fraternal codes of honor, as seen through Harumi's eyes.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-02-27
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She Cat
Overview: Dr. Cat Kagami was hoping to leave her torrid past behind, but a failed assassination attempt has now put her square in the crosshairs of a team of brutal killers. Now no one is safe, including her lesbian co-worker and a mysterious woman with a terrible secret that could bring down an entire Japanese company. Cat must take the law into her own hands and enact her own special kind of revenge!
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-12-23
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Jokôsei: Natsu hiraku kuchibiru
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-07-05
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Banned: Woman's Secret Pictures
Overview: A man spies on an upper class woman having an illicit affair and blackmails her for sex. But she’s not the delicate flower that she appears to be.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-12-02
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Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women
Overview: A sequel to Detective Bureau 2-3: Go To Hell Bastards!
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-07-07
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Lady Moonflower
Overview: Kizaki kidnaps Yuriko and engages in a rape and torture session with her, which he photographs. With the photos, he blackmails flower arrangement teacher Yumeji, Yuriko's older sister. Rather than allow him to shame her clan by sending the photos to the media, Yumeji goes to Kizaki. Kizaki then proceeds to rape and torture Yumeji, who was his true desire all along.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-12-08
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Gambling is My Destiny
Overview: Shadowed and alone. Today, a melancholy guitar sobs in a wandering seaside town.... To make amends, he hides his identity and saves his girlfriend's sister from certain death. Filmed on location on the scenic Manazuru Peninsula, the action is set amidst rugged rocky terrain and raging waves!
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-04-04
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Traveling Alone with a Guitar
Overview: Kobayashi Akira stars as a wandering musician, who lost his brother and lover to dishonest rival Henmi. The third work in Nikkatsu's "Gambler" series.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-12-19
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Cape Erimo
Overview: Harajuku, the fashion capital of Tokyo. Yasuko works at a boutique as a beginner seamstress. As snow covers the streets, the boutique's interior decorates itself with colorful clothing. An exhibition of the shop's spring line up is right around the corner. After a hard day at work Yasuko stops by at a produce market, setting all her unfinished work on the rear deck of a random truck. When she gets home, she realizes that she's missing a couple of things.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-04-01
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午前零時の出獄
Overview: This movie depicts the confrontation between a man entangled in a despicable trap and the shadow of murderous intent, and the efforts of a journalist chasing after the truth. Due to the passage of time since the film's release, some scenes may be marred by visual and audio distortions. We apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your understanding.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-06-16
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