12-11-1935
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Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
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12-11-1935
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Scorpio
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Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
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Haha Koihi no Ki
A live-action adaptation of Jun'ichirō Tanizaki's masterpiece "Shōshō Shigemoto no Haha (Captain Shigemoto's Mother)". Set in the glorious Heian Dynasty, the TV movie decipts the story of a mother and son torn apart for an irrational reason, and how they are reunited 40 years later.Year:
2008
Genghis Khan: To the Ends of the Earth And Sea
A look at Genghis Khan's life, from his birth to conquests in Asia.Year:
2007
Haru Urara
Based on the true story of racing horse "Haru Urara" ("Gentle Spring"), who lost every single horse race she entered since her 1998 debut.Year:
2005
When the Last Sword Is Drawn
Kanichiro Yoshimura is a Samurai and Family man who can no longer support his wife and children on the the low pay he receives from his small town clan, he is forced by the love for his family to leave for the city in search of higher pay to support them.Year:
2003
Wait and See
A salaryman faces a major life change as his firm undergoes financial difficulties. To add to his troubles, a man claiming to be his long-estranged father shows up at his house requesting shelter. One of the best of Somai's seriocomic studies of the messiness of family life.Year:
1998
Love Letter
A romantic film about the spiritual exchange between a gangster and a Chinese woman who got married to him under false pretenses.Year:
1998
The Apocalypse of Love
Chizuko marries a missionary in charge of an orphanage in the colony of Korea. After the end of the Pacific War, she is compelled to return to Japan but later returns. When the Korean War breaks out, her husband is arrested for espionage.Year:
1997
Village of Dreams
Tells of the childhood of two nine-year-old twins in a rural village in Japan after World War 2. Includes the boys relationships with their schoolteacher mother, civil servant father, elderly landlord, a rough new boy at the school, and three mysterious spirits in the form of old women.Year:
1996
Okoge
A straight young woman living in Tokyo becomes involved in the lives of a gay man and his married lover.Year:
1992
Okoge
A straight young woman living in Tokyo becomes involved in the lives of a gay man and his married lover.Year:
1992
幸福な市民～勤勉とは？ ライオンのように生きたいと願った男の悲喜劇
Year:
1989
Remembrance
The Yamaoki family moved from Kyoto to Tosa around the turn of the '50s; local school teacher Hirao becomes involved with Yasuko, sister to Sumio.Year:
1988
Remembrance
The Yamaoki family moved from Kyoto to Tosa around the turn of the '50s; local school teacher Hirao becomes involved with Yasuko, sister to Sumio.Year:
1988
May Love Be Restored
A tragic love story between a prostitute and a young trainee monk.Year:
1980
Run Truck Rascal, Run!
Momojiro and Jonathan go to Kochi on a ferry. On the ferry a singer called Yuka dropped her sheet music into the ocean. Momojiro helps her by diving in to collect the sheets for her and ends up falling in love.Year:
1979
Tenshi No Yokubō
Year:
1979
Female Teacher
A female teacher is raped by a gang of students in her school. The repercussions of this lead to scandal, blackmail and murder.Year:
1977
Suddenly, Like a Storm
21-year-old Hideo Ishida is a reckless young man. Today again, he took part in a car race with a stolen driver's license and a car belonging to the junkyard. But unfortunately, things go wrong and after a collision with another car, the seriously injured Hideo is taken to the hospital. Here he meets the nurse Yuki Kobayashi. Yuki is the opposite of Hideo. During the day she works as a nurse and in the evening she studies hard. However, Hideo's behavior leaves an unforgettable impression on Yuki and the two soon develop an intimate friendship ...Year:
1977
Seishojo: hito natsu no keiken
A young man has a chance encounter with a naked woman while collecting butterflies. She leads him to experiences he will never forget.Year:
1976
Preparation for the Festival
Tateo, young and neurotic, wishes to leave the village his mother has raised him in.Year:
1975
Preparation for the Festival
Tateo, young and neurotic, wishes to leave the village his mother has raised him in.Year:
1975
Light of Africa
Two semi-slackers with an ultra-intimate friendship work, slack and drink in a freezing Hokkaido town.Year:
1975
The Homeless
Two inmates are simultaneously released from jail, but go their separate ways, only to cross paths again in the nearest brothel. There they make the acquaintance of a would-be prostitute. They help her escape and decide to guide her on her quest for sunken contraband somewhere off the coast.Year:
1974
Red Paper Lantern
A young and newly-married couple in Tokyo lives a hard life moving repeatedly because of their unfamiliar relationships with their surroundings.Year:
1974
The World of Geisha 2 – The Precocious Lad
Shotaro, a young man who was kidnapped as a baby by a prostitute, lives and entertains in a seaside brothel. He often has to spend the night in the same room with other geishas when a rich patron takes over his room to be entertained by his favorite mistress. There he learns more about sex than many adults. So his adventures begin with both women and men.Year:
1974
Apartment Wife: Afternoon Seduction
A wife who suspects her husband of infidelity hires an investigator. But it turns out he has his own kinky secrets.Year:
1974
Tsugaru Folksong
A young girl is being asked about a man with whom she was keeping company, as her grandmother plays a lament on a shamisen. Then the focus changes to a couple arriving from Tokyo - the woman returning to her home, the man an escapee from the yakuza. The man doesn't seem to mind when the woman sells her favours to tourists at the local bar, just as she seems to take his attentions to Yuki, a blind girl, with equanimity.Year:
1973
Erotic Journey: Love Affair in Hong Kong
Akiko is a housewife bored with her marriage. She has an adulterous affair with a colleague of her husband and decides to follow him to Hong Kong where he has just been transferred. Akiko's husband goes out looking for them without success. Desperate, he lets himself be dragged into the underworld of the city by a mysterious Sino-Japanese man who plunges him into drugs and prostitiution until one day he finally learns the terrible truth about his unfaithful wife.Year:
1973
Swedish Porno: The House of Beasts
Three escaped convicts rob a gun store and come upon a remote house in which a family of four live with their maid. But the criminals are not prepared for the sexual appetite of the inhabitants.Year:
1973
Afternoon Affair: Kyoto Holy Tapestry
An upwardly-mobile banker's boss introduces him to the adopted daughter of a wealthy client. He falls in love with the girl and wants to marry her, not knowing that she is involved in a kinky sadomasochistic relationship with her artist father.Year:
1973
Secret of Concubine Palace Addendum: Convent's Gate of Lust
Nikkatsu Roman PornoYear:
1973
Excitement Class: Love Techniques
Tormented by his first sexual stirrings, the teenager Isao dreams every night of his gym teacher Ikuko. He finally opens her heart but she rejects his advances. Frustrated, Isao invents all sorts of stratagies to disgust Ikuko´s fiance, a professor of chemistry in the same school. As his plan fails, he plans a radical solution...and the results turns out to be...Year:
1972
The Sloe-eyed Siren
Roman Porno from 1972.Year:
1972
The Shadow on the Wall
A blind woman suspects that something isn’t right about the reappeared wife of her brother after she was missing for 6 months. Soon things take a sinister turn.Year:
1972
If You Were Young: Rage
If You Were Young: Rage highlights the other side of post-war Japanese prosperity, focusing on the throngs of young people who missed out on the boom. We follow a group of young men that can't seem to get ahead, despite their willingness to try. Then one hits upon a plane - to work together to save for a dump truck and thus become independent contractors and be their own bosses at last. Ultimately life presents obstacles: jail for one, violence at the hands of the police for another and a girlfriend and subsequent children for the third. An early Kinji Fukasaku gem that imports the freewheeling style of the French New Wave and the hip detachment of American noir.Year:
1970
Shogun and His Mistress 2
In the year 1786, Shogun Ieharu Tokugawa selected beautiful Ochisa to be his concubine. It causes other concubines to become very jealous and mean. When the Shogun passes away, his concubines are forced to become nuns, which they are not happy to be. The subject is life inside a shogun's harem, and the treatment is again more restrained than in most of the historical pinku eiga films being produced by independents at the time, but the tone of this middle installment in the trilogy is decidedly more grim than that of its predecessor. There's a good deal of abuse and violence on display, as the shogun dies and his concubines are sent to a remote convent to become buddhist nuns. the hysterical nuns are being punished for their transgressions and committing suicide in grand exploitation fashion.Year:
1967
Zatoichi the Outlaw
When a local gambling house kidnaps some peasants because they failed to pay their debts, a rival gambling house pays their debts and sets them free.Year:
1967
Burning Nature
Film from 1967.Year:
1967
Nakamatachi
Today is a new day with hopes. A youth hymn that depicts a young truck driver growing up in love with a dream while being supported by his friends who are always close to him. A movie adaptation of a hit song by Kazuo Funaki.Year:
1964
Me o tsubutte tsuppashire
1962 Japanese movieYear:
1962
Wind and waves of the South
Little dark-eyed boy Kazuo. Yes, he dreamed of the sea. However, like everyone here in the village. Kazuo only wanted to study first, to finish school... But he failed. Mother died. The woman who replaced her brought with her affection, comfort, and warmth of mother's hands. It seemed that joy settled in their house again. But one day a storm caught the fishermen at sea. Father did not return... Father's friends, fishermen, tried to help the widow, who was left with two children. But the money was still not enough. And then Kazuo decided to become a fisherman. After all, he was now the eldest in the family...Year:
1961
