Yôta Kawase

The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai is a Pink Film (a Japanese softcore pornography genre). Sachiko Hanai (Emi Kuroda) is a call girl. One day she is caught up in a gunfight and is shot in the forehead. Instead of killing her, the bullet in her head gives her psychic powers. She also accidentally comes into possession of a cylinder containing George W. Bush's finger, whose fingerprint is designed to launch a nuclear missile, and international spies are soon chasing her. (IMDB)

A prosperous corporation begins conducting psychic experiments in which human subjects are administered ether, outfitted in rubber, and assaulted with D.D.D. (Digital Direct Drive) containing nearly unbearable sound frequencies, until there is initial success in tapping into psychic ability but a high fatality rate. The corporation orders the experiments to end, only for the head researchers to refuse, taking their secretary hostage and transform their fellow researcher into a test subject.

a bizarre love triangle involving a loser ventriloquist, his assistant & a blind woman - Hikari is blindly (literally) in love with Daisuke, a failing ventriloquist yet when she finally musters up enough courage to meet him face to face and present him with some flowers backstage she mistakes his assistant for him. For some reason Daisuke and his assistant decide to follow through with the mistaken identity farce which leads to some amusing complications, particularly in the bedroom. (mubi)

Yuji and Akiko are newlyweds. Yuji dreams of being a movie star. He lands the lead role in a Pink Eiga soft-core sex film. The director requires him to have sex with the actress. Akiko goes to her high school reunion and is raped by a drunken guy, and then hooks up with her ex-high school love. A dark and comedic look at contemporary relationships and the pitfalls of married life. The story was written by Locarno International Film Festival, Golden Leopard Prize Winner, Masahiro Kobayashi. (Pink Eiga)

A gay pink film about two detectives who investigate a gang rape after a video is sent to their office.

High school students Isaki (Tetsuya Makita) and Hiramasa (Suzunosuke) can't stand being bored. One day, while walking across town, they bump shoulders with two other people. An argument ensues and, as usual, Hiramasa is ready to fight. Hiramasa is supremely confident when it comes to fighting. An unusual thing happens though, Hiramasa gets knocked out ... (asianwiki)

A long-awaited sequel to the internationally acclaimed full-throttle splatter sci-fi action horror "Meatball Machine". (imdb)

A cab driver is lead on to a rural hot springs by the woman who secretly killed his wife. (MUBI)

A shy young secretary is intrigued by her new neighbor. (letterboxd)

In the quiet countryside, the naturalistic family from Tokyo deprive the local man of his place to live. This is a satirical comedy on the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster. (imdb)

Kamagasaki is an "invisible" slum of Osaka that attracts day laborers and prostitutes since WW2. When the local gang has its treasured cauldron stolen, a war to find it begins involving the thugs, a 12 years old kid, a prostitute and a pickpocket, including the giant cauldron used to feed the destitute: The symbol of Kamagasaki.

Bangkok, 2015. Ozawa, a Japanese man who had nowhere to go, meets Luck, a woman has reached the height of her glory on Thaniya Street, a place that flourishes by servicing only Japanese men. (imdb)

Set in 1945 at the end of World War II. Saku arrives on Kakeromajima as the head of navy special forces. (themoviedb.org)

Yuji is an engaged businessman, who decides to grope Asuka, a pretty young girl, on a busy Tokyo commuter train. The cheap thrill turns expensive as Yuji discovers she took this opportunity to steal his wallet. Later on, Asuka finds Yuji and approaches him with an indecent partnership proposal. This film is another quality installment from the Chikan Densha Groper Train series – the longest-running film series in the world. (Over 500 Groper Train films have been made!)

Sixteen-year-old Kako Motoya is a high school Freshman and single. She attends an adult dating mixer under the pretense that she is older than she really is. There she meets a man and soon finds out he is a cop. He is interested. She is still interested despite his being a cop. There is a problem, however. It is not her parents. It is that the relationship is illegal. Where there is a will there is a way.

A Japanese Giallo about a murderous driver roaming the street in search of prey.

One night, a taciturn and clumsy man working at a scrap iron factory in the suburbs of Tokyo, causes an irreparable accident with his colleague. The two try to hide the incident but the man’s fate takes a turn for the worse and his colleague and family are faced with threats to their survival. (jff.jpf.go.jp)

Two wives who leave their husbands behind and go on a hot spring trip, and two husbands who play homosexual games because it's not fair for them to be the only ones enjoying it. In contrast to the wives, who warm each other's bodies with hot water and lesbian play, the husbands cool each other's bodies by facing each other naked on a dark table with a bottle of sugar. There is another couple in danger of getting married because their parents disapprove of their relationship, but these two...

Two men attempt to come to terms with a traumatic past by solving a present mystery in Takahisa Zeze's eerie millennial serial killer drama

Satoko is a married woman who repeats flings using a dating site using her mobile phone. One day, she meets Atsushi, a designer blinded by an accident, and suddenly begins to take care of him and love grows between them.

When he is hit by a car on the street, the young man Daikoku foresees the monster Demking appearing at the end of the century. In preparation for the coming confrontation with the Demeking, he organizes a modern-day Seven Lucky Gods composed entirely of antisocial people. This is a utopian epic that, despite the ridiculousness of the story, is the most powerful depiction of the motifs seen in the first two films, which attempt to play on the sense of apocalypse through unrealistic imagination...

After the death of his wife, Yukio has become more and more paranoid, believing that he is being followed and watched at all times. Yukio's late wife, before her death, was seeing and sleeping with another man. Not only did Yukio know about the affair, he would watch them have sex. Unbeknownst to his wife, his peeping on her became like a fetish. As the film progresses, Yukio goes to see a counselor to try and figure out his phobia and discover his deep repressed thoughts about his wife.

Years have passed since the first film. Goro never got over the death of his partner and continues to drown his misery in alcohol. His latest work as a private detective involves spying on a man suspected of adultery by his wife. She happens to be right, but he's cheating on her with a male university student and not another woman. When that student turns up dead shortly after Goro delivers his results, he is initially indifferent.

Nami Matsushima is used as a spy by her first real boyfriend, a police detective named Sugimi, to investigate a drug smuggling ring. However, her role is discovered and she is raped by several drug dealers. It emerges that Sugimi was simply using Matsushima as a pretext to obtain a bribe from the Yakuza. Seeking revenge, Matsushima makes a failed attempt to stab Sugimi on the steps of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police headquarters.

Asako and Yamada, after getting drunk for the first time and going straight to the hotel, spend a hot night, but they are separated by a fire that has started. The fireman Sudo saved Asako and fell in love with her at first sight. A sensual drama depicting a strange love triangle between a female beautician and two men, which begins with a fire in the hotel of love.

Kiriko is a beautiful woman working in a quiet hot spring town. The owner of the inn, Goro, is attracted to her beauty and asks her out, but she refuses. Meanwhile, Imai, a detective staying at the inn, recognizes Kiriko's face and investigates her past on his own.

Masao (Kokone Sasaki) was once famous for having supernatural powers, but she now lives as a prostitute. Her special power is to know when a person will die by touching them. Masao has sex with men about to die. One day, a man named Tachibana (Shima Ohnishi) appears in front of her and expresses his wish to film her. In reality, Tachibana wants to take revenge on her. His wife killed herself after learning from Masao that she would die. Tachibana though becomes attracted to Masao.

Takashima is a young struggling actor who wants to be a film director. The film follows his chance encounters and career highlights (and lowlights!) as he strives to reach the top, and details his attempt to create the perfect film.

Naomi (Makoto Nishiyama), who returned to a small town because her adoptive father was about to die, met her brother-in-law, Hiroyuki (Hideyuki Kamada), again. Both of them have a history of becoming a man and woman, and Naomi feels an uncontrollable feeling for Hiroyuki. After that, she reunited with her childhood friend Yoshio (Yuya Matsuura) who also returned to the town....

No Good Men follows Kumiko, a young and attractive woman who works at a travel agency and moonlights as an insatiable, sex-hungry mistress.

A man is waiting alone in a snow-covered house deep in the mountains. the woman was supposed to meet him days before but she hasn't arrived and the man waits, believing that the woman will still come. As the hours pass the man's mind slips in and out of reality as he fantasizes about her and her sexuality. His body grows numb from the cold and he begins to drift from reality to a dream world where his imagination knows no limits.

Older brother Kenichi and younger brother Takashi had not seen each other for a while, but they met at their estranged father's funeral. The father had moved to a small town and remarried and has a daughter, who is supposed to be their half-sister. Her whereabouts are unknown, as she left home at a very young age. One of the brothers mistakenly meets her, under very strange and disturbing circumstances...

After attempting to meet someone new on a dating website, Chihiro starts talking to Makoto, who is asking around about a string of suicides. She agreed to meet with him, as she knew one of the girls had recently passed. After the two begin to connect a bit, Makoto gets an e-mail from Chihiro, saying she doesn't see a purpose to continue living.

Aimi is a mistress who never talks to customers. Although her appearance and play content have been well received, she continues to be cut off from the store due to his unfriendliness, and she is changing stores. One day, Aimi was cut off again and decided to live in an accident property with a shared toilet without a bath, which had a low rent. Aimi, who became a town, meets Kaoru, who sells a mysterious "Shishu", and Eguchi, a theoretical physicist who talks about parallel worlds, deepens...

Junko, who has precognition, predicted her senior's death and disappeared from her fiancé's life. Five years later, Junko, who works in a peep-shop, reunites with Kazuki and rekindles their love, but tragedy soon ensues. Hotaru Hatsuki, one of the most popular actresses of the 1990s, gives a strong performance in this poignant tale of a woman's attempt to escape her fate.

Erotic drama

Children are being born with special powers. They seek blood for eternal life. And tonight, the victims ...!

Yuzo (Ito Takeshi) abandons his family and lives with his mistress Saeko (Masaki Sawa). Despite being on the verge of turning fifty and still in part-time employment, he prefers to chase dreams rather than face reality. One day, Saeko falls for a young man she meets on the street, and disappears.