Discover Movies

A feature length colour animation describing the fantastic world of "Ukiyoe".

A segment of “Love at Twenty” is a weird, grotesque and clumsy tale of obsessive and morbid love.

Horror film directed by Satoru Kobayashi. Kin'ya Ogawa served as Kobayashi's assistant on this film.

1962 Japanese movie

Pinku from 1968.

In a 1963 review of this film for the Naigai Times, Minoru Murai coined the term "Pink film" by suggesting a "Pink Ribbon prize" should be awarded to these softcore erotic productions, which were known as "Eroductions" in the 1960s.

Pinku from 1967.

A TV writer and a director stranded in a rural town witness the young villagers’ tangled romances. Despite parental feuds and arranged marriages, true couples find their way together. The writer grows fond of the town before returning to Tokyo.

Pinku from 1965.

One day, the sleazy Tomoko accompanies the pimp Ken to a popular dating club. She's a little dim-witted and always makes mistakes, but she's hard to hate.

Pink film directed by Kan Mukai.

Third and last "Maboroshi tantei" film, based on the manga by Jiro Kuwata.

A Pinku film from the independent production studio Kanto featuring a starring role for the former Japanese sex symbol Hisako 'Choko' Tsukuba.

1962 Japanese movie

Screened at the 1st Sogetsu Animation Festival in 1965, the film was made in 35mm using the animation equipment owned by animator Yoji Kuri. (Source: Collaborative Cataloging Japan)

Pinku from 1965.

The third and final installment of Seven-Color Mask: Three Aces.

1961 Japanese movie

Early film directed by Satoru Kobayashi.

1962 Japanese movie

A small white box. Everything happens in that little world. A woman's face comes out from the side of the room and roars, birds peck at human flesh, trains run through, and a couple quarrel begins. When the billiard ball penetrates the room, the billiard ball changes into various shapes ... Each room is a world, and what happens there is a microcosm of modern times.

Pinku from 1966.

Freewheeling sex! The real truth about devils stamped in the flesh!

Pink film directed by Takae Shindo.

The film centres around a group of schoolchildren navigating the complexities of friendship, trust, and honesty. At its heart is a thoughtful and suppressed boy with a learning disability whose interactions with his classmates oscillate between evoking tenderness and triggering aggression.

Pink film directed by Shinya Yamamoto.

Pink film distributed by Roppo Eiga.

Experimental short by Kiyoshi Awazu.

Sadistic twist on the "Mad Scientist" tale.

Early pink film.

1961 Japanese movie

Three violent and disillusioned students share an apartment. Their search for a place in society is through porn, fights, rape, and voyeurism. Not even leftist, militant student organizations are able to channel their youthful frustration.

Police investigate the murder of a private eye/blackmailer who had numerous enemies, including six prime suspects.

Early pink film directed by Sôjirô Motoki.

Pinku from 1965.

Early pink film directed by Giichi Nishihara.

Documentary against buraku discrimination

“Ten girls set out on a journey…the first died after being struck by a waterfall…” A succession of homicides occur as sung in the lyrics of a song by a new singer, while radiation is detected from the corpses of the victims. Made for "Operation: Mystery".

A galvanising documentary about the organised resistance of a group of students barricaded at the Takasaki City University of Economics. The university student struggles at the end of the 1960s in Japan were the culmination of over a decade of protests, social dissent and political unrest. All this gave energy to the student movement, which displayed original and sustained forms of organisation and resistance against the government and which would spread to universities all over the country. Together with the filmmakers of the recently formed collective Jieiso, Ogawa Shinsuke joined a group of students barricading themselves inside the Takasaki City University of Economics. Shot over the course of a year, this film documents the nature of the political discussion and organisation as well as the fierce debates going on among the students and their violent struggles with the authorities. Credit: ICA London

Japanese mystery film marking Yuka Mizuhara's film debut.

A man and a woman who make a living by running a honey trap. After making a move on a gang boss's mistress, the man accepts a request to commit a murder disguised as a traffic accident in order to settle the score...

Japanese comedy film.

Independent animation by Shimamura Tatsuo.

A filmmaker recalls his youth in the town of Onomichi. In the present, he shoots a film in Onomichi alongside his cast, crew and family.

Short animated mystery.

A Japanese rural girl, looking for work, unknowingly wanders into a brothel, becomes a prostitute, and is successful until she falls victim to a plot. Simple-minded gossip, at times unintentionally ridiculous.

Cameraman Yonesaku Kobayashi (1905-2005) is a pioneer of scientific films of Japan. He and producer Sozo Okada made many scientific educational films, and in 60's - 70's, many avant-garde composers composed music for these films.

A dreamy boy in a distant country saves a fish beached on the shore. When he lets it loose in a pool of water, the fish turns into a beautiful mermaid.

"Orgy Party" A secret apartment in Kansai. Everyone is naked, and while some drink alcohol calmly, five women and seven men intertwine silently or loudly. "Sexual Perverts" A perverted man is chained and whipped. A man and woman, dressed as dogs, drink a woman's urine and indulge in abnormal sex. "Vagabond Gathering" A group of vagabonds suddenly gather at Hanazono Shrine while under police surveillance. The group of vagabonds dance, sing, and light fires in a frenzy. "Bizarre Ritual" Men try to express the pain of childbirth by getting on a gynecological examination table, spreading their legs, screaming, and writhing in agony. "Kansai Striptease" Miyako Masumi, a popular figure in the Kansai nude scene, works as a nude model for magazines and chats with other strippers backstage. "Summer Night Park" Summer night parks are a paradise for couples. As the excitement builds with kissing and petting, they tumble onto the grass. They are oblivious to the sounds and sights around them.

During the summer, the grasshopper laughs at the ants who are gathering food. However, when winter comes, the grasshopper run out of food, and he reflects on his past attitude as he gazes at the warmth of their home.

A young Japanese woman comes to Peru to marry a man she has never seen in this somber drama highlighted by cultural differences. Her husband is a first-generation Japanese and both are bound to the time-honored tradition of arranged marriages. Bringing her child from a previous marriage, she finds her new husband living with Andes Mountain Indians and working for an archaeological expedition. The man and her boy take to each other, and the woman begins to study and understand the lives of the Indians. When her husband is killed mining for Incan treasure, she uses the money sent by the state to stay and help the villagers whom she has come to love.

Documentary on Chua Swee­-Lin, a Malaysian exchange student who was threatened with deportation over his protest against the separation and inde­pendence of Singapore.

This is a documentary centered on traditional Japanese patterns. To capture the unique sensibility of the Japanese people, the film features 170 kimono fabrics from the Muromachi to Edo periods, along with over 1,000 family crests that have been passed down through generations. These elements are presented using avant-garde visual techniques. Viewed from a modern perspective, the film transforms the exceptional patterns created by the Japanese in the past into a completely new illustrated scroll. The entire documentary contains no narration, relying solely on visuals and music to convey its message.