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Mana Kotani was friends with Sumire Utsuki for years. She admired Sumire’s freewheeling ways and mysterious charm, but Sumire broke off connections with her. Later, Mana hears of Sumire’s death, which she cannot get over.Read More »

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A car with two passengers plunges into the sea. The man dies, his wife (Kaori Momoi) is barely scratched. So did she or didn’t she? Shima Iwashita stars as her lawyer.

1982 Mainichi Film Awards Best Screenplay. Fourth place on Kinema Junpo’s 1982 top ten.Read More »

A boxer’s cat Maru goes missing. Soon after, he finds her in the arms of a blond-haired punk who calls her Lily and refuses to give her up.Read More »

Tetsuro Tamba portrays Kotaro Takamura, one of Japan’s most celebrated artists. A poet and sculptor, Takamura is married to Chieko (Shima Iwashita), who has artistic aspirations of her own. She gradually comes to realize that her husband has all the talent in the family; as she sinks deeper into depression, Takamura tries to comfort her by writing several poems in her honor. She descends into insanity, while Takamura manifests his despair into some of his greatest artistic achievements. Originally titled Chieko-sho, this Japanese film earned a 1968 Oscar nomination for “Best Foreign Film.”Read More »

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Underwear maker designer Miki enjoys a free-spirited sex life. She doesn’t mind the existence of Tsujimoto, who has a reputation as a playboy. One day Miki confessed in her heart that her junior Noriko had fallen in love with Tsujimoto once in bed. Miki pretending to be calm, but her inner heart is not calm. After that, Miki attacks Tsujimoto several times, but he isn’t full, but the timing isn’t right. One night, as Miki was drinking outside, a man visited her roommate Yoko. Read More »

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A brother and sister live as outcasts from their hamlet due to a belief that madness and disease runs in their blood. A group of villagers plot to steal their property, beating and hanging the brother and gang-raping the sister. The villagers believe the brother is dead, and come up with a scheme to kill the sister as well and make both deaths look like accidents. Unbeknownst to them, the brother survives, acquires a sword, and proceeds on a mission to slaughter each and every person in the hamlet.Read More »

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Mr. Ueno, retired, lives alone; he talks to Maria, a maid-droid his parents brought from their factory decades ago. Maria became Ueno’s companion after his parents’ deaths, and now her battery is run down; there are no replacement parts. Meanwhile, Inspector Akagi and her police squad are looking for a serial rapist that may not be human; however, if it’s a robot, in harming people it would be disobeying Asimov’s rules of robotics. Akagi’s inquiry takes her to a droid factory run by Mr. X; he helps by explaining why host-droids, the male equivalent of a maid-droid, don’t sell. What will Ueno and Akagi learn about love and the nature of men and women?Read More »

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Based on a porno manga by Kosuke Miki and Tadashi Matsumori, this pair of short features follow the adventures of Yuki, who works in a Kyoto red-light district house of ill repute as a “tamawari,” or “virgin-breaker.” She’s the gal who gets first dibs on the new recruits to the brothel (some willing, some not), and it’s her job to break them in for future clients. In the slower sequel Yuki thinks she’s finally found love after some studly service, but as you might expected, things don’t quite turn out the way she expected…Read More »

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Based on a porno manga by Kosuke Miki and Tadashi Matsumori, this pair of short features follow the adventures of Yuki, who works in a Kyoto red-light district house of ill repute as a “tamawari,” or “virgin-breaker.” She’s the gal who gets first dibs on the new recruits to the brothel (some willing, some not), and it’s her job to break them in for future clients. The first film finds Yuki involved with a group of political rebels, and in the slower sequel Yuki thinks she’s finally found love after some studly service, but as you might expected, things don’t quite turn out the way she expected.Read More »