A very weird exploitation flick. The whole film seems to centre round a group of dominating male chauvinists abusing young Japanese models after a photo shoot. After which they are butchered one by one by a mud covered nutter with a gigantic penis who lives in a warehouse.Read More »
The soldiers no longer know why they are at war, and when it even started. Daily and dutifully they march to the river and shoot at the opposite village from 9 to 5 – orders are orders after all.Read More »
Another rare Wakamatsu for y’all…..this time from his late 70s shintoho roughies/torture era. A sort of sequel to Torture Chronicles: 100 Years of Torture Inquisition, and much along the same lines as that and Female Rape and Torture as far as plot and production values goes.
Not a great film , but worth a watch for waka completists and ero-guro fans.Read More »
Synopsis:
In adapting Kawabata’s famous novel about the entangled relations between the son of a seductive tea-ceremony teacher and the women in his father’s life, Masumura subverts the literary genre so beloved of Japanese cinema. Kikuji (Mikijiro Hira) attends of a tea ceremony held by his late father’s one-time mistress, Chikako, and there embarks on an affair with the real love of his father’s life, Mrs. Ota. Mrs. Ota’s grief is palpable, but Kikuji’s motives are more mysterious-perhaps, like her, to know his father through the sexual experience. A complex transference is played out in such relationships, and through objects, such as tea cups, that are infused with human spirit. Masumura takes these suggested relationships to extremes in the film: Ayako Wakao plays Mrs. Ota with breathless despair, while Machiko Kyo’s Chikako, the gracious manipulator, is a veritable specter.Read More »
Plot: A woman visits a strange town where she encounters a man skipping stones by the riverside. They occupy their time with mindless play until at last twilight falls.Read More »
Fujio Murai learns that he has lung cancer. A doctor tells him to have surgery on the day that is the anniversary of his wife’s death. Murai ignores the doctor and leaves the hospital with his son. After he comes back home, he refuses to eat or drink. His daughter-in-law and granddaughter haven’t been seen since the 2011 earthquake.Read More »
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Tamako graduated from a university in Tokyo, but she now lives with her father back in Kofu. Tamako doesn’t help her father or tries to get a job. She spends her time just eating and sleeping throughout the four seasons of the year.Read More »
A fearless Yakuza captain’s loyalty is tested as two ambitious underbosses attempt a takeover of both his clan and a rival Yakuza gang.Read More »
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Sick of his job, bank clerk Inoue Norio becomes frightened of his partner’s death during S&M, and flees to the snow country of Hokuriku, where he meets a schoolgirl, Tanaka Sachiko. He gets on a train with nowhere to go, but there he meets a schoolgirl, Tanaka Sachiko, and becomes attracted to her. Intrigued by her, Inoue follows her out of the station and is accosted by Suzuki, a pimp, and they go to a house in the snow mountains. The house is a brothel for schoolgirls. He is reunited with Sachiko at the house, and begins his life as a pimp.Read More »