A Japanese comedy anthology film released on August 11, 1990. The movie comprises three short stories, each themed around modern adult diseases: cancer, diabetes, and high blood pressure. Directed by different filmmakers (Shôji Kôkami, Kazuki Ohmori & Takayoshi Watanabe), each segment blends humor and human drama to explore the struggles and absurdities tied to these illnesses.Read More »
Kiwa is Iwago’s devoted wife. A former wrestling champion, he has become a ‘zegen’ : He buys young girls from poor families to sell them to geisha houses. He is quite successful but Kiwa, though she accepts his money, loathes his work. One day Iwago comes back with a young girl he’s bought from a man who wanted to sell her in China. They adopt her and she raises her, as a respectable girl, with her two sons. But Iwago wants to manage the career of a singer who becomes his mistress and the situation becomes very tense in the couple. This is the third and last adaptation of Tomiko Miyao (mostly autobiographical) novels about the world of prostitution and yakuzas in Kochi by Gosha.Read More »