Moeko Ezawa

Kazuo Kuroki's Ronin-Gai transpires during the final years of the time when samurais figured prominently in Japanese society. The title town is filled with prostitutes and samurai who have been disgraced. The hedonistic warriors are presented with the possibility of redemption when the women of the town are threatened. (Perry Seibert, Rovi)

A slapstick comedy, about a goofy middle-aged man who is obsessed with the idea of having car sex. While pursuing his 'dream', he makes all the wrong moves possible, and ends up enrolling in a number of crazy escapades. (imdb)

At his working place, Kozo and his colleague gangrape the boss' teenage daughter. Then, on the highway, he picks up a red-haired woman walking on the road back to his home. She ends up staying the night. Later, the woman reveals that she has left her husband and son, but refuses to divulge her name. On the other hand, the boss' daughter informs Kozo's colleague that she is pregnant. They decide to elope but, before that, he demands Kozo to let him have sex with the red-haired woman... (imdb)

Iwao Enokizu is a middle-aged man who has an unexplainable urge to commit insane and violent murders. Eventually he is chased by the police all over Japan, but somehow he always manages to escape. He meets a woman who runs a brothel. They love each other but how long can they be together? (imdb)

Ryoko Itakura is a government tax agent who has just landed a big promotion. Her first assignment is to catch wheeler-dealer Hideki Gondo. She has a tough job, since in Japan tax evasion is an art and Gondo is, in effect, Rembrandt. Her job is complicated by a growing sympathy for the rogue and by political pressure to lay off. (imdb)

The movie revolves around Koji Chihara's (1-ichi, 9 Souls) character who becomes the towns enforcer right after highschool. Protecting small business's and helping people if they get screwed out of their money. Out of stupidity he cheats on his perfect girlfriend with a girl he knew from his childhood, which becomes a big mistake. The hardest part about his new girlfriend is she doesn't want him to fight, but that is how he makes his living. (imdb User Comments)

Story of everyday life and romance of a taxi driver who is a Korean resident in Japan. (imdb)

A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their country's warring states era, when rival samurai clans were battling to become the supreme Shogun. The squad leader, Lt. Iba, sees this as the perfect opportunity to realize his dream of becoming the ruler of Japan. To achieve this, he teams his troops up with those of Kagatori, a samurai daimyo who also aspires to become Shogun. Are either of these power-hungry warriors to be trusted? (imdb)

A prostitute balances her profession with issues in her personal life.

A young couple, an aspiring writer and actress, run into trouble when money problems lead Mimi to a life of prostitution.

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)

Katsu, a fugitive youth on the run from the yakuza, returns to his birthplace and begins an affair with the cinema owner. (imdb)

Former Nikkatsu starlet Moeko Ezawa from 1972's memorable Nureta Kuchibiru plays the mother of a crazy family attempting to come to an understanding, while an other family comes to an unfortunate end when their alienated daughter kills them with a chainsaw

From director Masaru Konuma comes this tale of sorrow and nostalgia mixed with pop songs and feminine strength.

A delirious roman porno re-imagining of Branded to Kill from Atsushi Yamatoya, scripted by Yôzô Tanaka, both Branded to Kill's screenwriters and Suzuki's regular collaborators. (Asian DVD Club)

Famous real-life stripper Sayuri Ichijō appears as herself in this fictional account of her daily life. The story involves Ichijō's relationships with two men: Her boyfriend, and the strip-club owner. Ichijō considers her work in striptease to be an art-form and pushes the boundaries of legality. (Wikipedia)

Set in 19th-century Osaka, the film tells the story of a love affair between Sasuke (Miura) and blind koto teacher Shunkin (Yamaguchi), who lost her sight at the age of nine.

Yuichi Koga is an upper-class business executive, running his own adult video company, and living a successful life with his wife and daughter. Outwardly, his family seems really happy, but in reality Yuichi enjoys sex with everyone but his wife Chikako. One day, he gets a phone call from a woman named Sanae, an old elementary school classmate of his. Yuichi and Sanae immediately hit it off again and begin seeing each other, and Yuichi eventually discovers that they click in a sexual way.

During Edo era, Osen is a female doctor specializing in abortions. Chokichi doubles as her assistant and her occasional sex partner. One day, while Dr Osen is away enjoying a hot springs vacation, a new patient Ofuji comes to the clinic in search of an instant solution to her budding problem. Intern Chokichi is immediately obsessed with the girl and wants to bed her. (The Sex Films Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia)

Kanao falls in love with a call-girl. He accidentally kills her pimp and they flee to safety. In their getaway, they meet another couple on the lam from a failed burglary scam. (Sex Files Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia)

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)

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.

A blind samisen player wanders across Japan for 50 years and becomes a musical sensation.

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... (mubi.com)

Jun is a 20 year old student at a Fashion-Arts School, majoring in dress design. She's still a virgin, even though her friends have been sexually active for quite awhile (Sex Files Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia)

The second of Nikkatsu's trilogy of softcore melodramas looking at prostitution in various Japanese cities, this dark look at ritualistic temple sex in Edo from director Noboru Tanaka is quite a departure from the light, comic tone of Chusei Sone's Maruhi: Joro Ichiba. (Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide)

When the white-suited don of the Osaka mob takes a short prison vacation, his regal, kimono-clad wife Shima Iwashita takes over the gang. Her first priority is to arrange the marriage of rebellious younger sister Rino Katase to a man outside the mob... (KG)

Hideo is the leader of the motorcycle gang The Bears. He beats up the leader of a rival gang The Scorpions without a reason. The Scorpions retaliate, which lands Hideo severly injured in the hospital of Hiroshi's father. Hiroshi, the black sheep of his wealthy family is a gay boy with a drug addiction, who's deeply in love with the cool, self-assured Hideo. But Hideo ignores Hiroshi's affection and dates Akemi, the promiscuous daughter of a hooker mother. Thus an unhappy love triangle deve

Sachiko has just committed a crime. She is helped by a couple to whom she grants her confidence. Quickly this couple blackmails her and threatens to deliver her to the police. Sachiko has no other choice but to obey them.

"BLOW THE NIGHT!" Let's Spend the Night Together is a 1983 Japanese docu-drama shot on 16mm film starring actual Yanki gang members as many of the main characters.

Set in a rural village outside of Tokyo, 'Brother And Sister' is a dark drama of obsessive family relationships marked by both violence and tenderness. Mon, the eldest daughter of an authoritarian father who has come into hard times, moves to Tokyo to earn a living. When she returns home pregnant, her brother Inokichi's rage sends her back to the city where she takes up the life of a streetwalker. (Mydramalist)

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)

An early 70s Roman Porno.

Pinku film from 1974.

The story of a bank clerk who embezzled money for her lover which he then proceeds to lose while gambling on boat races.

High school student Keiko struggles with the pressures of college entrance examinations and a chaotic home life, ultimately succumbing to alcohol, marijuana, gang members, and rape.

Two female friends and their very different lives… One witnesses the brutal rape of her sister while the other has to deal with a troubled relationship with an African-American soldier. Together, the girls will be drawn into a spiral of revenge and violence.

Kenzo, Azusa's husband, has a heart condition but his passion for sex has not diminished one iota from the time he was still a virile, young man. Azusa does not refuse her husband for he is a money bag and if he should die of excess sex, she will come into a vast fortune. If only Azusa could kill him without staining her own hands... Unable to do it alone, she asks the aid of Naoya who is only too glad to help.

In the late 90s Osaka, three people from various walks of life met by chance. They team up to orchestrate a complex financial con targeting crooked businessmen in an attempt to solve their respective financial woes.

In the year 1961, in a provincial city in Kansai, Kenji, Hiroshi and Takao were classmates in middle school. Takao is a high school student, Hiroshi works as a truck driver, and Kenji wanders around. On the other hand Atsuko, Toshiko and Fukue who came from the countryside start working in the local spinning mill. However, Atsuko quits her job as a factory worker and becomes a waitress at a cafe. The three boys and three girls become friends after meeting at Atsuko's cafe.

A diary of an office lady.

Class-A Kyoto, a strip joint in Kyoto, is raided by the police. Shohei, a salesman who happens to be there, gets caught in the middle of it and is fired from his job. Having nowhere else to go, Shohei reluctantly becomes the manager of the place... The film is a comedy full of pathos about the connection between strippers called "special delivery" and the "pimps" who hang on to them.

A gang of vicious thieves and rapists invades the isolated summer home of a wealthy but morally corrupt family.

On 9 August 1945, the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. This film describes the daily life of people the day before that fateful event, their feelings of joy and sadness. For them, tomorrow would never come, the first film in Kazuo Kuroki's 'War Requiem Trilogy,' which also includes 'Utsukushii Natsu Kirishima' (2002) and 'Chichi to Kuraseba' (2004). (imdb)