Japan

Fourth installment of Shintaro Katsu’s Hoodlum Soldier hit series. Private Omiya (Shintaro Katsu) and Private First Class Arita (Takahiro Tamura) are sent to the border of the Soviet Union.Read More »

Synopsis:
In the black market, a war orphan is confronted with the struggles of people living in the immediate aftermath of WWII.Read More »

Aya successfully stages a fashion show in Osaka and in the train on her way home to Tokyo accidentally treads on a man’s foot. The man whose name is Rentaro is not amused. Just afterwards she notices that he is reading a magazine which carries her picture which he crushes and throws under his seat. One of her customers in Tokyo is a pretty girl named Kana for whom she had designed a dress which at first seems quite satisfactory. But a few days later Kana brings it back. It seems her brother thinks it terrible. But when Kana brings the dress back she meets Aya’s brother, Takeshi, with whom she becomes friendly and Takeshi gives her a new dress which he smuggles out of his sister’s office. When Aya finds Kana’s discarded dress and misses one belonging to another customer she goes to see Kana’s brother, and to her surprise finds him to be the fellow whose foot she’d stepped upon in the train…Read More »

The relationship between a rich young student and his lower class friend changes when they start to live both at a guest house. Both will be attracted towards Iko, the beautiful daughter of their landlady.Read More »

Akira, a Japanese expat working in Amsterdam, falls in love with a Japanese woman at Schiphol Airport who he thinks is his high school love.Read More »

Yuichi Koga is an upper-class business executive, running his own adult video company, and living a successful life with his wife and daughter. Outwardly, his family seems really happy, but in reality Yuichi enjoys sex with everyone but his wife Chikako. One day, he gets a phone call from a woman named Sanae, an old elementary school classmate of his.Read More »

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Koreyoshi Kurahara adapted a novel by Yukio Mishima for Thirst for Love (Ai no kawaki), a tense psychological drama about a young woman who is widowed after marrying into a wealthy family, and becomes sexually involved with her father-in-law, while harboring a destructive obsession with the family gardener. Kurahara’s atmospheric style is a perfect match for Mishima’s brooding sensuality.Read More »

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Detective Seiji Otaki is determined to find the psychopathic killer of a young woman who was ostensibly a student but in reality a high-priced prostitute. Even though he has been taken off the case for beating up a suspect, he refuses to let it go and recruits his mistress to act as a decoy for the killer. Her involvement turns out to be a fatal mistake, and when her husband gets out of prison, Detective Otaki is in worse trouble than ever.Read More »

33-year-old poor writer Ogata was able to endure his miserable life cheerfully thanks to Yoshie, a 19-year-old innocent young wife. After graduating from a girls’ school in Hokuriku, she immediately moved to Tokyo to meet and marry Ogata. After neatly writing Ogata’s manuscript, he would buy dorayaki as a gratuity and devour it.Read More »