Nach schwül-heißen Hochsommertagen müssen einige Jugendliche wegen eines hereinbrechenden Taifuns die Nacht in ihrer Schule in einem Vorort von Tokyo verbringen. Kindliche Verspieltheit, aber auch erste sexuelle Begierden brechen sich Bahn, mal zärtlich, mal gewaltsam. Am Ende kommt es jedoch zu einem unvorhergesehenen Unglück...
After witnessing the rape of his wife, a man's mind snaps and he attacks a prostitute. Two years later, the man and the prostitute meet by chance.
Nami, die Moderatorin der erfolgreichsten Late-Night-Show im japanischen TV, erhält eine Videokassette mit grauenhaftem Inhalt: aus der Perspektive des Täters gefilmt, sieht man in einem schrecklichen Snuff-Film, wie eine Frau brutal gefoltert und anschließend getötet wird. Angewidert, aber noch mehr fasziniert von dem Gezeigten, begibt sich Nami mit einem Filmteam auf die Spuren des Täters, ohne zu ahnen, dass sie direkt in eine tödliche Falle läuft.
A country girl visits a college in Tokyo in search of her high school band heartthrob. In the course of finding him, she runs into various odd inhabitants of the college campus--a constantly horny coed, a psychology professor in search of the theory of shame, and of course her Mr. Yoshioka who still sings but has become an elusive campus nobody. Other students also come in and out, engaged in a rather bored campus life-- flirting, having sex, joining campus group activities, running around posing as revolutionaries.
After a woman is framed for the murder of her fisherman husband, she seeks out a bloody revenge on the corrupt businessmen responsible.
Two sexually energized young women who live in a high-rise apartment building happen one day to spy from their window a mother and son making love in the apartment across from theirs. They decide to stage a rescue attempt to free him and in the process one of the young women ends up falling in love with the son despite having a boyfriend and enjoying sex with her female companion. Of course, the mother they are warring against has her own plans when she feels her privacy invaded.
Nach langer Wartezeit darf die Familie des Büroangestellten Katsuhiko endlich das ersehnte Eigenheim in einem Vorort von Tokio beziehen. Doch das Glück bleibt nicht ungetrübt: Termiten setzen Katsuhiko ebenso zu wie das Erscheinen seines Vaters, für den es gilt, zusätzlichen Wohnraum unter dem Wohnzimmer zu schaffen. Außerdem macht er sich ernsthafte Sorgen um den Geisteszustand seiner Familie und sieht einen Ausweg nur im kollektiven Selbstmord. Doch damit können sich die anderen Familienmitglieder gar nicht anfreunden...
One of the contemporary masters of Japanese film, Kiyoshi Kurosawa here fashions a dark tale that is both a sharp satire of corporate life and a B-movie thriller. A former sumo wrestler now working as a security guard goes on a murderous rampage in the company that's employed him.
A young man returns home from the bar only to find a woman who was about to kill herself. Taking her home and protecting her, he learns that she’s escaped from a violent husband. but there’s more to her story than she's willing to tell at first.
A housewife, Yasuko lives in an urban high-rise apartment with her husband Satoru and her son Takuto. Annoyed by spam calls and door-to-door salesmen, Yasuko slams the door on a salesman’s finger when he tries to squeeze a flyer through chained door. He leaves but the next day, her nightmare starts.
A pampered young model is killed in a traffic accident. Given the chance to return to earth, she becomes involved with the advertising executive who is trying to cover up her death. A blend of fantasy and trenchant realism in which Somai uses the ethereal glow of advertising images to comment on the transience of life.
After returning from the Burmese front in WWII, a man finds trouble brewing back home.
A carnivorous monster lives on the island of Sipang. A group of office ladies band together to fight it.
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An unemployed young man who has just broken up with his girlfriend meets a woman at a bicycle race. They start dating but then strange things then begin to happen to him, including a beating from the local yakuza. - Wikipedia.
First production by Directors’ Company. The film depicts the lives of a young man with dreams of becoming a rock superstar and his two friends.
Set in the near future after a nuclear war, the film portrays a man who is searching for his former lover.
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A visual documentary of Einstürzende Neubauten, the German underground band, by Japanese cult director Sogo Ishii, made during their 1985 tour of Japan. The band makes an elaborate and remarkably choreographed appearance in the ruins of an old ironworks which was scheduled for demolition; footage of same was incorporated into the movie and a brief appearance on stage.
Tokiko Enomoto finds out that her husband Kazuya, who mostly lives at an apartment near his work while she and their children live at home, has been having an affair with a live-in mistress, Ryōko, at his apartment. Tokiko tells her two sons, Tarō and Jirō, that she has decided to divorce their father. The children are shocked but understand their mother's position. Kazuya realizes the damage he has done and tries to remedy the situation.
First production by Directors' Company. A man stripped bare of all modern values lives in a pure form, like a beast, feeding and satiating his every primal desire whenever they may arise. He takes on a mate, a woman intrigued by his personage or lack thereof, and they live in his den in central Tokyo. As time goes on, we see how this animal clashes with modern man, and the consequences of their coexistance.
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