Genshū Hanayagi
Also Known As: Genshu Hanayagi, Genju Hanayanagi, 川井洋子, Yoko Kawai
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Birthday: Not available
Deathday: February 28, 2019
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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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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Confessions of a Lovelace: At Lust's End
Overview: Jun Aisaka seduces one woman after another. His victims were flirtatious married woman Noriko, student Keiko, widow Mitsuko and dancer Rumi. As a result, he ends up in prison, but after escaping with another prisoner, he continues his criminal adventures with a partner. It is clear that this will not end well. Moreover, a couple of detectives are already on the trail of the criminals.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-08-14
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Secret Chronicle: She Beast Market
Overview: In an endless cycle a daughter born of a prostitute takes up her mother’s trade among the pimps, the working poor and dilapidated slums.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-09-11
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Machi nureta onna
Overview: A woman living alone is visited by her ex-husband. At the same time a young couple who are about to break up get trapped in the town as public transport is cut off.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-12-19
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Island of Horrors
Overview: Two women are ferried to a small prison colony on the remote and barren prison island, where they and their fellow inmates are forced to perform perilous slave labor along the island’s treacherous cliffs, overseen by both an unforgiving sun and a crew of abusive male wardens. Meanwhile, the arrival of a newcomer among the island’s administrators, a disgraced policeman who is also the son of Nagasaki’s governor, creates dissension between the officials that, along with an untimely outbreak of bubonic plague on the island, ultimately sets the stage for a daring escape attempt on the part of the prisoners.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-10-14
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The Naked Seven
Overview: Scantily clad female warriors battle thieves to save a small village. Director Yasuharu Hasebe crossed the Seven Samurai legends of Shichinin No Samurai with his own popular Naraneko Rokku series and dressed it up with some of the most popular softcore pinup queens of the day.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-12-27
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Mandala
Overview: Two university students from Kyoto decide to swap partners and spend the night in an isolated motel. However, one of the couples is attacked. Desperate for answers, they search for the attackers and come across a cult that promotes sexual freedom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-09-11
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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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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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Inran'na kankei
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-04-14
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Watashi wa okasaretai
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-01-21
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The Blonde in Edo Castle
Overview: A concubine is exiled from the Shogun's harem after she is found guilty of having tried to smuggle a kabuki dancer into the palace for the purpose of an illicit affair. Another concubine believes she has been framed and keeps investigating.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-11-18
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Ukiyo-e Artist
Overview: A portrait of a man trying to become an artist in order to escape from his life as a miserable peasant due to severe annual tribute during the reign of the fifth Tokugawa Shogun Tsunayoshi.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-10-19
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Concubine Secrets: Lustful Dance
Overview: The twelfth shogun, Ieyoshi, embraces Oruri day and night under the care of Fujioka, a guest attendant at the O-oku. However, Fujioka's senior, Kumoi, who recommends Oseki to him, is not amused at all. The scene between Fujioka and Kumoi was symbolic of the battle between women in the O-oku. Fujioka hears from Orui that she is pregnant and rejoices that she has nothing to fear if she bears the Shogun's child. Meanwhile, Kumoi comforts Bure, who is a lesbian, and asks Oseki to help her get a call from the shogun.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-05-27
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Shameless: Abnormal and Abusive Love
Overview: A Japanese woman is raped by her boyfriend day in day out.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-02-21
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Curse of the Blood
Overview: A samurai kills a blind man who tells him to repay his debts. Because of the samurai's actions his entire family is to bear a terrible curse.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-05-30
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A Scream from Nowhere
Overview: In 1930, the chance meeting of a novelist and one of his fans opens the door to a series of mysterious events culminating in the death of a wealthy industrialist who may have been leading a double life.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-06-18
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The Siren's Song
Overview: Roman Porno from 1972.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-09-27
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Eat the Kimono
Overview: EAT THE KIMONO is a brilliant documentary about Hanayagi Genshu, a Japanese feminist and avant-garde dancer and performer, who has spent her life defying her conservative culture's contempt for independence and unconventionality. She denounced Emperor Hirohito as a war criminal, and dismissed death threats made against her by right-wing groups.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-09-13
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Tattoos on Virgins
Overview: Toei film directed by Misao Arai involving a young woman getting tattooed.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-12-04
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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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Tattooed Flower Vase
Overview: Ms. Yoshino, respectable lady and attractive widow, leads a quiet and peaceful life with her teenage daughter Takako. However, their lifes change radically when fate confronts both with the young Hideo. While spending time with Takako, the latter is more attracted to her mother, and she in turn starts to feel the same, because he reminds her of his late father, a kabuki actor with whom she had an affair in the past.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-09-25
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Okatsu the Fugitive
Overview: Okatsu the Fugitive is the third film in the "Ohyaku/Okatsu" series. Okatsu; a "tomboy" who is good with a sword. Her father has found her a man to marry and actually she doesn't seem too upset about the situation. At the same time, a bunch of farmers are being slaughtered by a corrupt group running a tobacco smuggling ring. They're being investigated by a man who is documenting their crimes and when they find out about it, they torture him for information but get none. It's not long before he and Okatsu's mother wind up dead and she sets out for revenge.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-10-01
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Hanayagi Genshu Gokuchūki II
Overview: Hanayagi Genshu, who spent a winter in Tochihara Women's Prison due to an injury to the Hanayagi style Iemoto, is allowed to be paroleed. In Asakusa, she reunited with her prison companion, Sayoko Nakano. Genshu, Sayoko, and Setsuko Kanno gather at a yakitori restaurant to reminisce about their prison days. This is the second drama of her prison record that was broadcast in 1984 and caused a sensation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-04-01
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The Cat Knew
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Genres: TV Movie Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-02-26
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A Kawachi Rascal's Song
Overview: Even after turning 30, Matsutaro Tokuda is still single and spends his days driving a white taxi. He likes to gamble, although he doesn't have a talent for it. However, there was a woman that fell in love with such a man...
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-11-17
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