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On the Akebono Express bound for Ueno, passenger Chiyoko is seen sleeping with her breasts exposed in the quiet carriage. Yamamoto, peeking at her from the upper bunk, becomes excited. When Chiyoko found out about this, she quickly approached him and began to thrust violently on the small bed....

Pink film by Banmei Takahashi.

The film is based on 17th century Chinese erotic novel by Li Yu best known as The Carnal Prayer Mat. Mio is a struggling writer who writes a pornographic book entitled Flesh Futon which becomes a surprise best seller. With his newfound wealth, Mio begins indulging in the nightlife, excusing his activities to his wife by saying it is for research. Mio's reputation comes crashing down when a prostitute reports that his penis is like a "guppy". More bad luck follows. His book is banned, and his wife puts him on a short leash. At the height of his misfortune, his house is robbed. Mio meets the robber who turns out to be the Japanese folk-hero Nezumi Kozō. The two become friends, and Kozō introduces Mio to a doctor who can perform penis-enlargement surgery. With his new equipment, Kozō and Mio become frequenters of the red-light district, until the real Nezumi Kozō appears, and evil luck returns to Mio.

A bored wife meets an old lover and starts an affair with him to see if it will bring back the same passion as they had in the past.

A young woman with an unrequited love for her step brother has their relationship upended when a despondent couple wanders into town.

The woman gambler Ginko risks her life for her brother-in-law.

1977 Shochiku adaptation of Natsume Soseki's novel.

Based on the song by Mari Henmi

Hisayoshi, who was known as "Matahisa" and was a famous bondage artist in the Kansai region, is now a pimp for Mary of Snake Show and does massage. When he is called by a company executive named Shiratori Eizo and goes to his house, he finds Shizuko, whom he saw in town before. Shizuko is the spitting image of Kayo, whom Hisayoshi tied up and killed. Eizo is jealous of Hisayoshi and Shizuko's behavior. Shizuko was subjected to Hisayoshi's secret techniques of "neck rope," "hanging rope," and "crotch rope"...

Three friends leave Tokyo and take on a massive criminal organization in Hakata.

The eighth installment in the popular film series starring Tomisaburo Wakayama. Embarrassed by the chairman of the Seiyu-kai for not having a family crest, Seikichi Shimamura sets out with his henchmen on a journey to acquire the crest of a local bankrupt family. The local Iwahashi clan and the fishermen fought over the construction of the industrial complex, but when Seikichi learned that the Seiyu-kai was behind the Iwahashi clan, he sided with the fishermen...

A mission to take down a Black Cross fortress becomes hampered when a Masked Monster, under the direction of a returned general, takes Variblune from Shinmei for their usage. This is a theatrical version of episode 15 of the Himitsu Sentai Gorenger television series.

A beautiful married woman was murdered by her husband, a famous Noh mask artist, because he suspected her relationship with her brother-in-law. The couple had a 5-year-old daughter. Fifteen years later, her daughter, now 20 years old, heard for the first time the details of the incident from her uncle who was the cause of her mother's death, but it was a story of a dark lust that could be called abnormal.

In the spring of 1945, Murakami, an apprentice officer, was ordered by the General Staff Headquarters to be assigned to the secret 33rd Eastern Unit, known only to the upper ranks of the General Staff. This is where secret warriors, spies and guerrillas, are trained. Eventually, a variety of training will be held, from pistols, karate, martial arts to pickpocketing wallets.

A theatrical release of the 1st episode of Mirrorman as part of the 1972 Spring Toho Champion Festival.

A young couple lives together in a small apartment and struggles to keep their relationship together, despite inertia and financial hardship. Based on the comic Red Colored Elegy by Seiichi Hayashi.

Based on Shinichi Mori song

A plan of a house that is reminiscent of a miniature garden used as a psychological treatment to assist in self-confirmation at a middle-class housewive’s tea party.

The daughter of a geisha and restaurant owner approaches the son of a wealthy landowner. Aiming for his father's enormous fortune, she resorts to every kind of sensual scheme. This entertaining story depicts the ugly struggle between sex and desire in a light-hearted comedy. Surrounded by seductive stars, Jun Ogawa is in a panic.

Teenage film

Nikkatsu Roman Porno

Contrast between two outlooks on life: one of a poor factory worker and the other the heir to millions.

Roman Porno from 1972.

Laughter is brought about by a teacher-husband and student-wife couple.

BDSM-themed pink film distributed by Toei.

A dramatic captivating tale tells of widowed Tei (Junko Fuji), she has become a coalmine operator and is determined to be successful despite mining being a predominately male domain. Overcoming the natural hardships, a more serious threat to Tei and her mine, the menacing presence of rival mining gangs who sense her vulnerability... Nihon jokyo-den:ketto midarw-bana is an outstanding drama, highlighted by wonderful characterizations/performances. Yamashita's excellent direction maintains a rich emotional flow from the opening seconds to the last. Intense and bloody encounters punctuate throughout the engaging multi layered tale!

Roman Porno from 1972.

Early 8mm student film. Selected for the 1977 Japan Recording Video Festival (sponsored by Nippon Television)

Pink film from Toei.

A story about being scared of getting old.

Hiroshi Kakurai is an assassin who was thinking of retiring. He travels to an island in the Seto Inland Sea and begins to live peacefully with Shinobu, a woman he has fallen in love with, but the intensity of his love for her begins to drive him towards destruction...

The Panorama Group, a group of young people who work together with an old professor who is passionate about making hot air balloons a reality, dream of taking to the skies of the South Seas, but there are various obstacles in their way.

A “reading film” of delirious image and text, Les chants de Maldoror takes its title and inspiration from Comte de Lautréamont’s 1869 proto-Surrealist poetic novel which, for instance, describes beauty as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table. In the novel’s six cantos, a young misanthrope indulges in depraved and destructive acts. Unexpected encounters abound, with turtles and birds joining Terayama’s regular cast of snails and dogs to wander over books and bare torsos. Feverish video processing posterizes, inverts and overlays images that are further colored by sound—pushing the limits of his literary adaptation. Terayama wrote that the only tombstone he wanted was his words, but, as Les chants de Maldoror demonstrates, words need not be confined to carved monuments or bound hardcopies.

Third film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.

Two boys and two girls become acquainted and fall in love.

Tsutomu (Kensaku Morita), an orphan who once stabbed a man, is released from a reformatory and goes to Tottori, on the Japan Sea coast, to enter a high school. On the beach, he meets a young fisherman, Yusuke (Norihiko Yamamoto) also a student of the same school. They become friends and Tsutomu is offered free board at Yusuke's home.

Three married women don't know much about the outside world...

Pink film distributed by Toei.

Shiratori Shinichi, is released from prison and now roams the streets in search of his sister. While at a red-light district in Chiba, Shiratori finds out that his sister is in Tokyo. However, things take turn for the worse as he gets into a fight with the local Handa gang...

After over 50 years of wandering up and down Japan, finally in the 1970s, the rough-hewn blind shamisen player and folk-song collector named Takahashi Chikuzan became a musical sensation. This biographical drama chronicles his wanderings and his life, with a particular focus on his humble beginnings as a peasant on a remote and arid island.

In the final days of the Edo shogunate, a government commander enters Edo Castle to inspect the Ōoku. Ignoring warnings, he steps into a forbidden room where, 200 years before, Lady Oyuki, a favored concubine, was forced to commit suicide by Tokugawa Tsunayoshi over a suspected affair. Consumed by vengeance, her spirit continues to haunt all those involved in the tragedy.

A love story set in 18th century France during the revolution, based on the fictionalized stories of Marie Antoinette, Fersen, and Oscar.

The manager of a supermarket is flooded with huge financial problems. Driven by desperation, she commits a series of murders.

A journalist, his pyromaniac girlfriend, and an ex-baseball player team up to rip off a gangster, with violent consequences.

“In Search of Unreturned Soldiers was about former soldiers of the Japanese army who chose not to return to Japan after the war. I found several of them who had remained in Thailand. Two years later, I invited one of them to make his first return visit to Japan and documented it in Outlaw-Matsu Returns Home. During the filming, my subject Fujita asked me to buy him a cleaver so that he could kill his ‘vicious brother.’ I was shocked, and asked him to wait a day so that I could plan how to film the scene. By the next morning, to my relief, Fujita had calmed down and changed his mind about killing his brother. But I couldn’t have had a sharper insight into the ethical questions provoked by this kind of documentary filmmaking.” —Shôhei Imamura

Dog racing is used as a metaphor for the futility of human existence.

Remake of 1949 film

In this personal film made during when Idemitsu went back and forth between Japan and USA, the subjective gaze is depicted in the abstract images with high contrast.