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Eighth in the Ekimae series, portraying competition between two hot spring resort owners in Yamanashi.

Captures the optimistic attitude and entrepreneurial spirit characteristic of the Vietnamese people, who remain positive despite ever-present reminders of the horrors of the Vietnam War.

Pinku from 1969.

1961 Japanese movie

A short experimental anime about a woman desperately in love. Made by Yoji Kuri, a well-known Japanese indie animator.

Directed by Seiichi Fukuda

Story of a woman who “lends” her womb for ten million Yen to a couple unable to have children.

1961 Japanese movie

Third film of the 7 detectives series

Pinku from 1968.

Tsuruoka is a college scienceteacher bent on capturing coeds and torturing them. He's aided by Masayoshi Nogami, who - in keeping with his cinematic reputation - enjoys brutally raping the girls after Tsuruoka snatches them.

Movie directed by Satoru Kobayashi.

A film about two boys and two girls, and how they each come to sex, each in his or her own way.

1969 Japanese movie

Pinku from 1967.

Crime film directed by Tatsuo Yamada for Shintoho.

Kawasaki, a high school student from Ichiko, walks along a mountain path toward Amagi and encounters a troupe of traveling performers. He becomes captivated by Kaoru, a black-haired dancer carrying a drum on her back. Deciding to travel with the troupe to Shimoda, Kawasaki finds that Kaoru also harbors a tender affection for him.

LEAD TOMBSTONE tracks the progress of a young sociopathic rake who had, immediately post-WW2, rescued his country farmer mother from rape by stabbing the offending American soldier in the back with a pitchfork. Once grown, the boy continues his violent life as a hoodlum on the run, repaying an outlaw couple who have sheltered him by raping the wife, then, at his boss’s behest, murdering the husband. He’s also not above strangling a girl in her bathtub for kicks. The one spot of normalcy in his life is his shop girl girlfriend, an innocent who, once she discovers his other life, confronts his boss… (from OUTLAW MASTERS OF JAPANESE CINEMA by Chris D)

Bastard tablets that hunt down the crooks behind the gambling world of horse racing, bicycle racing, and car racing.

Tetsuji Takechi's third film is based on two short stories by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki. The film depicts the lurid and violently erotic dreams of a writer, his wife and his sister, after having spent a night out drinking and visiting sex shows. It underwent extensive censorship before the government would allow it to be released. About 20% of the film's original content was cut and this footage is now considered lost.

"Though still young, Natsuko gave up the life of a geisha to become the mistress of the president of a shipbuilding company. When he is about to re-marry she insists he either wed or stop seeing her. Returning home, she again meets the man she first loved and for a time thinks of married happiness."

Japanese horror drama movie from 1961.

A painfully sad woman's heart cries from forbidden love. A love triangle drawn by three stars of Japanese cinema: Keiji Sada, Miyuki Kuwano and Keiko Awaji.

A young obstetrician-gynecologist, who was betrayed by his beloved, out of hatred for women, turns into a vengeful demon and rapes women one by one.

1962 Japanese movie

Onna no Toba, is the first film in long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin, an honest dealer in the criminal underworld of yakuza-run gambling, as she sets out to become Japan's number one dealer.

Ammo scavengers make a living gathering the unexploded bombs and shell casings from the U.S. military training grounds. One of them, Zen, is their champion, a stingy but good-natured person. Based on the novel "Fuhatsudan" by Akae Yukio.

Pinku from 1968.

Pinku from 1966.

1967 Japanese movie

The Spiders hit song made into a movie.

A coming-of-age story that depicts the crisis of love in marital life in a light-hearted way, centering on the family of a young scholar whose young wife is a female doctor who has made a name for herself in sex medicine.

Masako, the young lady of the family estate, returning from overseas following the death of her diplomat father. She had originally left in opposition to his second marriage to the avaricious Tomoko, who now parades her new lover Goro around the house as if it were her own. When the family lawyer informs the gathered masses that it is Masako who is the legal inheritor of the entire estate, her elder sister Sumie and fiance Shinjiro join Tomoko and Goro in hacking up the unfortunate heiress with an axe. It is not long before the assorted pieces of Masako begin cropping up to drive them all insane, followed by her apparition in the traditional white smock with eyes peering wildly through straggly black hair.

First "Maboroshi tantei" film, based on the manga by Jiro Kuwata.

The film adaptation of Kazuo Kikuta novel "Kumo no Ue Dangoro Ichiza", which enjoyed great success at the performances of the Toho Takarazuka Theater at the end of the year. The troupe "Kumo no Ue Dangoro" continues to tour from town to village. The small cast of the troupe includes its leader (Kenichi Enomoto), Norizo (Norihei Miki) and Taizo (Mutoshi Happa), who play female roles - they are all super actors, each of whom plays five roles. Dan Goro dreams of performing in a major theater and tries to put on a big show with a young man he meets in Shikoku named Sakai (Frankie Sakai), but...

A married woman has an affair. She soon must deal with a menacing voice on the phone...

1967 Japanese movie

Japanese film.

1961 Japanese movie

Originally commissioned to record urban redevelopment in Osaka’s Kamagasaki district, Hideo Arai transcends reportage to capture a haunting portrait of displacement during Japan’s economic miracle. With a dissonant score by experimental composers Toshi Ichiyanagi and Yuji Takahashi, the film juxtaposes the brutal reality of shantytown "barracks" against the state's modernization projects. Slum remains a visceral critique of social erasure and a vital, observational work of Japanese documentary film.

A sequel to "Vampire Dead Beauty Carving", featuring the same members from the previous work, including scriptwriter Koji Takada, director Hideaki Onishi, and cinematographer Shigehira Suzuki.

Reiji and Takashi, although they are brothers, differ from each other like fire and water - Reiji is an empath, and Takashi will use anybody, to get as far up the social ladder as possible. Soon, Takashi dumps his girlfriend Mie to marry the daughter of a certain businessman. Disgusted with this fact, Reiji starts helping the girl. He's even more indignant when he discovers that Mie is terminally ill. From now on, he does everything to make Mie's last days as good as possible, and repay the family, which humiliated woman so much.

Ryokichi Ibuki is a clerk who learns company "top secrets" and becomes an industrial blackmailer. Kaoru Koizumi, a confidential secretary in love with Ibuki, reveals her firm's plans to him. She resigns when Ibuki blackmails her employer but Ibuki gains another spy in Ayuko Ichinoi...

1962 Japanese movie

Pinku directed by Kôji Wakamatsu.

A tragic love story about the heiress of the Kitakyushu Tagawa family who becomes a hostess in Osaka.

1961 Japanese movie

Second "Maboroshi tantei" film, based on the manga by Jiro Kuwata.

A 1963 Japanese musical drama directed by Kôzô Saeki

A violently erotic drama taking place in a fishing village.