Emiko Azuma

The trials and tribulations of Eddie and other transvestites in Japan.

A group of thugs messes with the wrong girl when they kidnap and try to sell half-Japanese, half-American Rica's (Rika Aoki) all-girl gang members into sex slavery. The man-hating, hard-hearted and sexy Rica -- who has a tragic and violent past -- is ready to kick major butt in director Kô Nakahira's girl power-filled, Japanese exploitation flick from the 1970s. (Netflix)

Sometime in the 1910's, when young rebel Konno Tôgo is thrown out of his religious school in Kobe for brawling and fraternizing too closely with the local girls, his mother puts him under the trust of an acquaintance of hers, the principal of a provincial junior high school. Still violent, he falls in love with a local girl living in the rural town of his new school. Loosely based on the autobiographical novel of the same name by Toko Kon.

Two reporters of divergent morals investigate a drug ring, delving deeper into the underworld in the process. (imdb)

A hard working salaryman takes off five days from his busy job and sets off with his wife and two children to visit his parents in his hometown for the 1991 new year holidays. He decides that they will go by car to save on expenses. Unfortunately, the long drive from Tokyo to his hometown becomes a much longer journey than expected due to traffic, sickness and other misfortunes and by the time they arrive three days later, they only have time for a short but happy visit.

Three women, deceived by a man, make full use of their feminine weapons, replete with daring and unbridled seduction strategies.

Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband’s dead body, fighting government bureaucracy and indifference all along the way.