A series of suspicious deaths have occurred in a provincial town, where men who were junior high school teachers, bank employees, and city hall employees have allegedly "committed suicide" one after another, leaving behind large amounts of debt. A woman working in the nightlife industry named Misato Katayama is said to have had some connection with the men. Reporter Osamu Kijima travels to the area to do some research for a weekly magazine, but...
Toko Namiki
Misato Katayama
Sumire Kurokawa
Satoko Kijima
Tôshi Yanagi
Osamu Kijima
Taizô
Tomoyoshi Nagatsuka
Hirokio Andô
Tomochika Nagatsuka
Setsuhiko Kobayashi
Miyoshi
Yūken Yoshida
Minoru Ogata
Satomi Shinozaki
Miyoshi Hara
A series of suspicious deaths have occurred in a provincial town, where men who were junior high school teachers, bank employees, and city hall employees have allegedly "committed suicide" one after another, leaving behind large amounts of debt. A woman working in the nightlife industry named Misato Katayama is said to have had some connection with the men. Reporter Osamu Kijima travels to the area to do some research for a weekly magazine, but...
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.
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.
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.
While police investigate a woman found dead in a derelict love hotel, a romance novelist's wife lives a life that seems simply a daily repetition without romance. To escape the loveless monotony, she follows her desires and becomes a nude model. Soon, she meets a mentor and begins selling her body to strangers, while at home, she hides behind the façade of the doting wife.
When the bizarre mass suicide of 54 high school girls throwing themselves in front of a subway train appears to instigate a string of suicides around the country, Detective Kuroda strives to find the answer, which isn't as simple as he had hoped.
Toru recalls his life in the 1960s, when his friend Kizuki killed himself and he grew close to Naoko, Kizuki's girlfriend, and another woman, the outgoing, lively Midori.
In 1958 postwar Tokyo, the residents of a humble Third Street neighbourhood struggle, dream, and grow together as rapid modernisation transforms their lives beneath the shadow of the newly rising Tokyo Tower.
Based on the factual case of a young man who broke into a nurses' home in Chicago, mutilating and killing several of the inmates, Wakamatsu's film is a precise, sad delineation of a particular aspect of masculine sexual consciousness.
A group of boys and girls, twelve in total, gather at an abandoned hospital to die for various different reasons. There, they find the body of a dead boy. The group of twelve attempt to find the person who killed the boy. During their search, the reasons why they want to die are revealed.
A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.