Tatsuya, an unemployed virgin, is hired at a Japanese sweets shop run by his classmate Maki, but is shocked to learn that Maki, whom he has a crush on, is engaged. At that time, Tatsuya's older brother leaves behind a Japanese sword that was a keepsake from their father. Tatsuya accidentally peels off the amulet that was attached to the sword...
Nozomi Haneda
Yasuya Kubota
Yoshihiro Satō
Sanshirô Kobayashi
Shingo Takasugi
Ran Kayama
Tatsuya, an unemployed virgin, is hired at a Japanese sweets shop run by his classmate Maki, but is shocked to learn that Maki, whom he has a crush on, is engaged. At that time, Tatsuya's older brother leaves behind a Japanese sword that was a keepsake from their father. Tatsuya accidentally peels off the amulet that was attached to the sword...
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.
Sex & Fury chronicles Ocho's exploits as she searches for her father's killers, each identified by unique tattoos on their backs (a deer, a boar, and a butterfly). Along the way, she also crosses paths with Shunosuke, a radical set on murdering prominent politician Kurokawa, and Christina, an American spy posing as a gambler.
Nishi is a loser who has a crush on his childhood girlfriend. After an encounter with the Japanese mafia, he journeys to heaven and back, and ends up trapped in an even more unlikely place.
An American journalist travels through 19th-century Japan to find the prostitute he fell in love with but instead learns of the physical and existential horror that befell her after he left.
Two gay men are possibly, probably, stumbling towards love. Maybe. They're both very busy.
Nagito has a fetish for calligraphy on the human body and meets her ideal soulmate Jerome, an English translator sent to Japan. However, once Nagiko's father's gay publisher rejoins the scene, the story is overtaken by treachery and bloodlust.
Sweet Gordon, an affable English teacher in Brooklyn, has beaten the odds; a French Girl has fallen in love with him and he’s fallen even harder back. But their future is thrown into limbo when she interviews for an executive chef position in her hometown of Quebec City. To Gordon’s dismay her future boss also happens to be her former lover, a celebrity Chef with oceanic eyes and a hit TV show. Good luck Gordon.
A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual relationship.
When a group of naive teens working at a movie theater in a small Christian town discover a mysterious film hidden in its basement, they unleash an alluring succubus who gives them a sex education…written in blood.
Kyôko, a traumatized young Japanese girl, finds herself struggling with her self-confidence in her adult life. Growing up in a family without her mother and her sister, she constantly questions the rationale of sex and the notion of liberty in modern Japanese society.