Wife Collector
A taxi driving, punk rock listening, serial rapist with a bad attitude picks up female fares, sedates them with gas and takes them to his grungy lair where he video tapes his sexual abuse.
A taxi driving, punk rock listening, serial rapist with a bad attitude picks up female fares, sedates them with gas and takes them to his grungy lair where he video tapes his sexual abuse.
Minako Ogawa
Akiko Nozawa
Naomi Hagio
Naomi
Katsumi Ôtaki
Etsuko
Naoko Takeda
Misaki Eto
Taketoshi Watari
Rapist
Manzo Saita
Security goods salesman
Kazuya Toyoda
Laborer
Yutaka Ikejima
Numata
Isao Nonaka
Saeki Kyoji
A taxi driving, punk rock listening, serial rapist with a bad attitude picks up female fares, sedates them with gas and takes them to his grungy lair where he video tapes his sexual abuse.
A taxi driver gets his thrills from gassing and abducting women, then raping them at a secluded location. One of his victims decides later that she enjoyed the rape so she goes around the city looking for men to rape her, with some success. Her younger friend sees that something has changed in her elder roommate and decides she too would like to be raped. After successfully fulfilling her quest, the younger girl discovers her latent lesbian proclivity, and near the end of the movie the two roommates are experimenting with this new found desire. This improbable story fits the general description of "roman porn", produced in Japaan, where women are portrayed as lacking sexual agency and dependent on men for pleasure. Most of these films offer little in the way of compelling drama, but the lurid sex scenes manage to attract viewers.
Agnes and her two sisters struggle through a day in a home overrun by gamblers, thieves, and johns.
An urban love story set on the hard streets of the Bronx. A struggling female pimp, named Wednesday, grows up learning the game from her dad. Once he's gone she's left to look out for her prostitute mother and girlfriend Nikki.
While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.
Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding.
A submissive hooker goes about her trade, suffering abuse at the hands of Japanese salarymen and Yakuza types. She's unhappy about her work, and is apparently trying to find some sort of appeasement for the fact that her lover has married.
Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.
Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles with family problems and has his friendships tested by racism.
A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters Ruth and Matilda are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea room but does not have the wherewithal to achieve her lofty goal. Epileptic Ruth is a rebellious adolescent, while shy but highly intelligent and idealistic Matilda seeks solace in her pets and school projects, including one designed to show how small amounts of radium affect marigolds.
When household tensions and a sense of worthlessness overcome Evan, he finds escape when he clings with the orphans of a throw-away society. The runaways hold on to each other like a family until a tragedy tears them apart.