Karayuki-san
"Karayuki-san offers a no-holds-barred depiction of the discrimination faced by a former prostitute who returns to Japan from Singapore with her mixed-race son." - Alexander Jacoby (Oxford Brookes University)
"Karayuki-san offers a no-holds-barred depiction of the discrimination faced by a former prostitute who returns to Japan from Singapore with her mixed-race son." - Alexander Jacoby (Oxford Brookes University)
入江たか子
清川虹子
清川玉枝
毛利菊枝
Yoshino Shimada
三條利喜江
Mitsuko Ôtsuki
伊達里子
丸山定夫
"Karayuki-san offers a no-holds-barred depiction of the discrimination faced by a former prostitute who returns to Japan from Singapore with her mixed-race son." - Alexander Jacoby (Oxford Brookes University)
Akira works as a lawyer. One day, he meets with his former client Rie, who asks Akira to perform a background check on her late husband Daisuke.
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.
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.
Otsuya, the daughter of a rich merchant, elopes with her lover Shinsuke, an employee of her father's. During their flight, Otsuya's beauty attracts the gaze of Seikichi, a mysterious master tattooist who sees her pristine white skin as the perfect canvas for his art. The image of the large demonic spider that he emblazons across Otsuya's back marks her as the property of another man, radically altering her relationships with all around her as her personality seems to transform under its influence.
Among the ruins of the city, there is a game only children can play. It is called “Otokoyo”; a game of hide-and-seek. But whenever children play this game, one by one they would disappear into the blinds of the buildings… The story begins when a boy enters the world of Otokoyo, to find his missing sister.
Follows five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation debates the passage of an anti-prostitution law.
An effervescent musical about one of the most unlikely couples seen on screen: two Otaku intent on hiding their nerdiness from their colleagues!
เมื่อ "คานาโกะ" สาวสวยเรียนเก่งประจำโรงเรียนหายตัวไปอย่างลึกลับ ผู้เป็นแม่จึงโทรหา "ฟูจิชิมะ" อดีตสามีซึ่งเป็นพ่อบังเกิดเกล้าของคานาโกะ และเป็นอดีตมือปราบที่ใช้ชีวิตเหลวแหลก ให้มาช่วยออกตามหาลูกสาว ฟูจิชิมะ บุรุษผู้ทำเรื่องผิดพลาดมาตลอดชีวิต หวังว่าเมื่อเขาเจอตัวคานาโกะแล้ว เขาจะตั้งต้นชีวิตใหม่ และสร้างครอบครัวที่ "สมบูรณ์" ขึ้นมาอีกครั้ง แต่ยิ่งการเสาะหาเบาะแสลึกลงไปมากเท่าไร ฟูจิชิมะ ก็ได้พบเจอกับความลับอันดำมืดซึ่งค่อยๆ เผยตัวมาทีละน้อย...ความลับที่ใครๆ ก็คาดไม่ถึงว่า คานาโกะผู้อ่อนหวาน แท้จริงแล้วกลับซ่อนความน่าสะพรึงกลัวและความร้ายกาจไว้!
The erotic novelist Taeko is writing a morbid story of a family destroyed by incest, murder and abuse. Her assistant, Yuji, sets on a mission to uncover the reality of this story, but the reality might be too much to bear.
Kiyoha rises from the lowly courtesan ranks to the high class position of Oiran in the steamy red-light district of Yoshiwara. She is determined to stand on her own two feet and live life as she pleased.