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In the era of the ninth shogun, Ieshige, the Ooku of Edo Castle was a world of only women, with Tokiwa at the head and numbering up to a thousand. The town girl Otoshi catches the eye of Oitsu-no-kata and is brought into the Ooku. Oitsu receives the favor of Ieshige and is blessed with an heir, but Oko-no-kata resents Oitsu to the point of wanting to curse her to death. At that time, rumors of an evil spirit in the unopened room spread throughout the Ooku.

A short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto.

A pebble sets on a journey to help a sick girl.

Set in a rural town in Yamaguchi Prefecture, this comedy centers on a young couple determined to pursue their love against all opposition, while also chronicling the comical behaviors and interactions of a cast of lovable characters.

Abstract forms animated in drawings.

Yoichi, who works for an advertising agency becomes heavily obsessed with a strange woman, things go unexpected, leading to a divorce and other disasters...

"Groper Train" pink film distributed by Okura Eiga.

Pinku distributed by Xces / Nikkatsu

A girl who is always a maiden at heart is a big fan of a romantic poet from the Taisho era, and wants to buy a first edition of his poetry collection that she found in a used bookstore, but it is too expensive for her. She has no choice but to work part-time at a snack bar to save up the money. One day, a pink rainbow flies into her room, and at the same time as the shock, a strange man dressed in outdated clothes appears. The man is actually a poet and a big fan of her, a scientist, and has ended up lost in the present day due to a malfunction of the time machine he made, but of course she has no idea about it. The man is surprised at the transformation of Tokyo, but what is even more surprising is that the woman in front of him is the spitting image of his girlfriend from his original world...

"Groper Train" distributed by Shintoho.

Marina, an up-and-coming lingerie designer, is in a lesbian relationship with Saki, an underwear model. However, a man becomes attached to Marina and her underwear and succeeds in eavesdropping on her room. He listens to her vivid secret life every night, but that's not enough for her...

A documentary on the making of the Japanese animated science fiction film, Akira, created by Katsuhiro Otomo from his popular graphic novel series of the same title; shows Japanese animators at work and discusses their state-of-the-art animation techniques.

While waiting for her husband to return from a business trip a bored housewife excites herself by watching naughty videos...

Toshio and Masato live like a married couple and jointly run the gay bar "Crystal". One day, Toshio receives a letter asking him to live with his son, Shinji, who he hasn't seen for over 15 years since he broke up with his wife, and is moving from the countryside to Tokyo to enter a talent school.

After a client is killed, three women become involved in the search for the money he hid in a locker.

Mieko and Ayako and are roommates. Ayako is having an affair with a married man. But when the affair is discovered Ayako runs away to commit suicide. Mieko and the married man go in search of her hoping to find her before it’s too late.

A spree of murders in the city targets peddlers and komuso monks, all killed in the same method. Dobu investigates after a ronin's death with a unique clue.

A daughter of Hatamoto (high-ranked soldier) Otsuyu (Akiko Kana) and a Ronin living in Choya (cheap apartment) Shinzaburo Hagihara (Yoichi Hayashi) fell in love with each other. They could not see each other for a while, but Otsuyu visited Shinzaburo's place late at night, led by a servant Oyone (Shoko Yagi). Tomorrow night and next night as well.

Young lovers Makiko and Hidekazu break up because of misunderstanding. Makiko flies to New Zealand and soon recovers. When she is about to marry a man who really loves her, Hidekazu suddenly appears in her life again... Between a man who loves her and a man she loves, how would Makiko's choice be?

More of Emoto Takenori's humorous tales of the Baseball world.

Samon, who had left his position as a police constable, embarks on a journey. During his travel, he is attacked by a group of masked bandits and sufferes a deep wound on his way back to Edo at the request of Magistrate Toyama. Saved by Dr. Kazumichi, Samon is asked by Toyama to identify an informant among the members of the lightning gang, a group of cruel thieves wreaking havoc throughout Edo. Samon then becomes an assistant to the firefighter squad led by Naito Hayato-masamune. One night, while rushing to the oil merchant Tambaya, who is attacked by the robbers, Samon and his group discovered a trembling young girl Oso who is the only survivor of the massacre and has lost her voice due to terror.

What is America to her? Idemitsu, who lived in America for eight years, looks introspectively at herself and her strange connection with America.

Set in the town of Furano in Hokkaido, Kita no Kuni Kara centers around the story of the Kuroita family. Narrated by the son, Jun, the tale follows the lives of two children torn between their parents and their parents' divorce. Jun, and his sister Hotaru, grow and mature in the harsh climates of Hokkaido, and learn the ways of life through their interaction with the folk of Furano.

Pinku distributed by Million. Rumi Tama's directorial debut.

A young wife who is bored with her ordinary life is reunited with her former lover and embarks on a journey of robbery.

Kohei Akiyama, a popular master swordsman, and his son Daijiro live in the town of Edo in good faith. While running a dojo, Daijiro and his father find themselves wrapped up in a series of events with the town's people.

A beautiful girl, haunted by the evil spirit of a woman who was burned at the stake 17 years ago, begins to kill one person after another.

Akina Nakamori's second video work "Hajimemashite" consists of 12 songs (including three singles "Slow Motion," "Girl A," and "Second Love") from her debut year (1982), filmed at Santa Monica Beach in Los Angeles and other locations where Akina Nakamori visited to record and interview for "Slow Motion" from March 11 to 17, 1982, just before her debut. It also includes the recording of her debut song "Slow Motion," and is full of valuable memorial footage from before her debut!

An antique sword exposes tension between three siblings.

Japanese film released in 1981.

A group of short 8mm works before visual artist debut of Mr. Tezuka Makoto

Pinku from 1980, distributed by Nikkatsu

An opera singer finds herself stranded by a snow storm and has to take a taxi with a driver with his own personal version of “La Traviata”

An anthology film by eight members of Parodious Unity.

Micchi thrusts though space on her spacecraft Pink Shock, hoping to be reunited with her long lost lover.

In 2000, Satan, the messenger of hell, is tasked with destroying the savior of the earth. However, he is a natural lover, and ends up being late for a meow meow with a witch, and the devil is actually not good with women, so it's a complete mess.

"Groper Train" distributed by Okura Eiga.

The story of Au Aurka is set in the hinterland of Tokyo in the eighties. The protagonists are two girls who have a dream that then becomes reality. Produced by Iso Takahata in 1988, the film was positively received by Italian critics

With the death of her father, a daughter reluctantly returns to the family temple hidden in the mist covered mountains where dark and forbidden secrets dwell.

Erotic drama

In the near future it's discovered that the dinosaurs did not die off, but instead live on near the center of the Earth. The evil lord Tyrannus uses the mutated dinosaurs descendents to attack Earth in his effort to rule the world. Can Gemini Force, a group of four superpowered teens who've pledged to protect the Earth, stop his plans? Written by Mike Konczewski 70 millions years ago, the creatures known as dinosaurs mysteriously disappeared from planet Earth. Until now, it was assumed they were extinct. In reality, they had burrowed deep into the Earth and evolved into supermonsters. In the year 2000, the people from planet Earth were amazed and terrified by the greatest catastrophe ever known to mankind: the re-appearance of the dinosaurs. Under the direction of their emperor, Tyrannus, the creatures now seek to destroy mankind.

"Groper Train" pink film distributed by Shintoho.

Student Tako is inexorably drawn toward Sao despite class rumors that she has appeared in a porno movie.

Documentary about the making of Juzo Itami's film "Tampopo" (1985).

"Apartment Wife" pink film distributed by Okura Eiga.

When Otomo Katsuhiro saw his manga Good Weather credited as the “original novel” he burst out laughing. There’s not an iota of his book anywhere in the film. Made in the same year as Sono Sion’s A Man’s Flower Road, Hirano Katsuyuki’s Happiness Avenue (where Sono plays a role) is madder and more abandoned, in both filmmaking and content. Lovelorn Masahiro goes on an odyssey to find fulfilment of his heart’s desire, and the sea he traverses are Tokyo’s open sewages.

Husband is happy and sad about the rise and fall of stock prices, and has lost interest in his wife, resulting in a sexless marriage. The wife has no choice but to masturbate every night. Her recent favorite is masturbating with a cucumber as a vibrator. The bored wife has started attending a class on writing tanka in colloquial style, which has become popular due to the "Salad Anniversary". The instructor is a student from the Faculty of Literature at the University of Tokyo, and is a virgin. He blushes as he criticizes the erotic tanka that the housewives write. The housewives find it cute and end up competing with each other to take his virginity. One day, a housewife who masturbates a lot ends up writing a tanka about her impressions of masturbating with a cucumber. A student of the instructor becomes interested in the tanka and breaks into her home...