Eimei Esumi

Tetsu has joined his yakuza boss in going straight, but when a rival gang threatens to bring them back into the gang wars...

A violent thug plays opposing yakuza bosses against each other. (imdb)

Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the brutal Lieutenant Narita but falls for the sensitive Mikami, Narita's direct subordinate.

A woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai returning from the war through that area are found mysteriously dead with their throats torn out. The governor calls in a wild and fierce young hero, to quell what is evidently a ghost. He encounters the two beautiful women, in an eery, beautiful scene. After spiritual purification, he meets the demon in a thrilling fight. (imdb)

When Sokichi stops providing his long-time lover Kikuyo enough money to pay for the care of their three young children, Kikuyo leaves the children with Sokichi - and his very surprised and angry wife Oume - and disappears. (imdb)

Kikuju, a yakuza, runs off to Tokyo with his master's proposed bride on the way to her wedding and marries her, leaving a few elegantly-killed corpses behind. He works for corrupt building contractors- the normal method of getting and keeping a contract is gang fights, blackmail and bribery. An assassin from his old gang is looking for him. (imdb)

A hard-boiled hit man is caught between warring gangs

A misfit high-school science teacher decides to build his own atomic bomb. (imdb)

In 1936 a geisha named Abe Sada was found wandering around the streets of Kyoto with a knife, a rope, and a severed penis in her hands. The latter turned out to belong to her ex-lover Kichi, the rich owner of the hotel where she worked.

It's the evening before the day all brothels must be shut-down, according to the new law, in 1958. At the Kofukuya's (literally, the house that sells happiness), five prostitutes decide to celebrate the day. (imdb)

A detective down on his luck is sent to retrieve a girl from a mysterious resort-cum-cult-commune.

A powerful nobleman's wife is unable to bear him an heir. He takes a mistress who becomes pregnant. When she gives birth to twins. an assasin is hired to kill both mother and baby girl, as only a male heir is required. (mondomacabrodvd.com)

A young woman has a "dream ring" inserted into her in this surreal melding of eroticism and fantasy/horror from Nikkatsu featuring Jun Miho.

Nakata, a writer, lives with the painful memory of the death of his wife, whose life was cut short a few years earlier. Was it an accident or was it suicide? Doubt persists. In order to escape his guilty conscience, Nakata gives up on marriage and fatherhood. Thus freed, he embarks on an obsessive sexual jeorney and records his adventures in a book, "The Dark Room".

At the end of the Taisho Era, Geisha Hanasei is dumped by her patron. She steals a baby in a fit of anger that was conceived by his mistress. The boy grows up as Hanasei's son and as he's been around brothels all his life, he is a sex expert.

The world is in turmoil with the October Revolution of 1917, riots over the inflationary price of rice, and the military expedition to Siberia in 1918. But Shinsuke spends his days in the arms of geishas, paying little heed to the events happening around him. (imdb)

Tells the story of an innocent country girl running off to Tokyo and being taken advantage of by all the shady characters she meets. (CG)

Tokyo is suddendly covered by a dome shaped electromagantic cloud for an unknown reason and is totally blocked and isolated from other parts of the world. The temperature inside the cloud is slowly increasing. The Soviet Pacific fleet is getting closer. The U.S. is forcing Japan to form a new government. Scientists and research workers outside Tokyo have to race against time to find out how to get through the cloud in order to rescue the 12,000,000+ lives in Tokyo and the fate of the country.

"Image of a Bound Girl" by Masaru Konuma is about a professor named Keisuke who meets a suicidal girl and subjects her to shibari bondage and sexual abuse.Their relationship quickly become more and more intimate.The wife of professor tries to stop sadomasochistic love of these two souls and as a reward is also subjected to harsh S&M training... (IMDb)

After leaving high school, Michio Yamada (Norio Nagayama in the real life incidents) becomes involved in the shudan shushoku, a post-war Japanese government work program which involves taking almost an entire high school graduating class from the countryside to Tokyo to work for a fruit company. Some terrible things happened to his family in the past and that explains why Michio came later to have perpetrated so many killings. (imdb)

Goro (Tetsuya Watari) wants to put his dark past behind. He heads to Hirosaki City to offer his condolences to Yumeko and to reunite with Yukiko (Chieko Matsubara), but finds that Yumeko is fatally ill. Although Yukiko was taking care of her, she is pressed for money. Goro wants to help and knows that there is only one way to come up with fast money. (imdb)

A modern adaptation of Narayamabushi-ko, The Ballad of Narayama. (imdb)

The lovely Ryoko is attending a Japanese University on an exchange program. She’s pretty, vulnerable, shy, and full of mysterious secrets. Meeting up with her long-time friend Rumiko, Ryoko shuns her aggressive lesbian advances by saying she’s still a virgin. Rumiko is surprised at this revelation and, over the next few days, she takes Ryoko on a series of misadventures to help her with her sexual awakening...

A pair of schoolgirl friends rise above the patriarchy.

Akira and Hiroshi are two lowlives who hang around pachinko parlors. Hiroshi tries to get Akira laid with little success but things change when Akira is informed of a 88 million yen inheritance. (imdb)

A nurse is raped in a doctor's office. The caresses of the perpetrator keep coming to his mind after the assault. She will start a search for the perpetrator which will show her the darker side of her medical institution.

The story of a second-rate detective asked to tail a mysterious woman who is cheating on her man.

After the death of their father, a brother and his sister return to their family home on a secluded island. They are accompanied by the brother's girlfriend. Problems arise when it becomes obvious that the two siblings have carnal desires for each other as well.