Hiroshi Imaizumi

After being raped in an unknown rooftop, nineteen year-old girl Poppo meets a mysterious boy, and both share their sexual traumas and fears, with fatal consequences. (imdb)

Inheritance problems, involving a supermarket manager, drive a succession of violence.

A half brother and sister work at a hotel in Hakone respectively as a porter and a souvenir shop clerk. They are close. One day a woman named Hasegawa checks into the hotel in order to recuperate in a calm environment with fresh air. She is the mother of the store employee. The mother and daughter were separated due to the Kanto earthquake. The girl was practically raised by her older half-brother.

Kayo, who is famous for her beauty, own a bar in a port town. The establishment is always crowded with customers infatuated with her. For the past three years, Kayo has been in a relationship with Murakami, a city councilman. One day, a young man and woman, Jun and Yoko, come to town. They are planning to stow away somewhere, but no one will take them in. Exhausted, they happen to come to Kayo’s bar. (tmdb)

Tragic story of women in three periods: Meiji, Taisho and Showa.

A slick photographer with ties to the military tricks the beautiful kimono clad wives around him to be the stars of his next erotic pictorial.

Meiji period: Two peasants try to help a woman who is abused by police.

A critique of the Japanese family, seen here as militaristic, absurdly incestuous, and patriarchal. Nihilistic destruction by the young ones seems to be the only way out. This should be seen as Wakamatsu’s answer to Nagisa Oshima’s The Ceremony, made in the same year.