Cinematography: Shôhei Andô

Direction Kôhei Oguri

Cast Takahiro Tamura · Mariko Kaga · Nobutaka Asahara · Makiko Shibata

Synopsis Two boys, whose parents ply their trade by the mouth of a muddy river in Osaka, become close friends. The two families' "businesses" are in fact dining and prostitution. When Nobou, the restauranteur's son, loses his pocket money during the...

Direction Kôhei Oguri

Cast Keiko Matsuzaka · Ittoku Kishibe · Midori Kiuchi · Takenori Matsumura

Synopsis The Sting of Death is a 1990 Japanese film directed by Kôhei Oguri and based on the novel by Toshio Shimao. It tells the story of a writer with a wandering eye and his jealous wife.

Direction Noboru Tanaka

Cast Melka Seri · Junko Miyashita · Genshu Hanayagi · Moeko Ezawa

Synopsis Noboru Tanaka returned to direct the third of Nikkatsu's pinku eiga melodramas examining prostitution in various Japanese cities. This one focuses on modern-day Osaka, and although it is still a softcore film, is the most outrageous of the lot. The...

Direction Masaru Konuma

Cast Naomi Tani · Nagatoshi Sakamoto · Hijiri Abe · Hiroko Fuji

Synopsis Shizuko is the aristocratic wife of the president of a large company. When she wants to divorce her domineering husband, he orders his employee Yoshi, the son of an adult toy store owner, to train his wife to become sexually...

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Tsuyoshi Ujiki · Tomorô Taguchi · Takeshi Caesar · Kazuki Kitamura

Synopsis An inexperienced gangster is killed alongside his strong, respected boss and awakens to find a mad scientist has given him a new body made partly of his boss and partly of indestructible bionics.

Direction Yasuaki Uegaki

Cast Akiko Nakamura · Osahide Takahashi · Natsumi Asano · Jirô Karasawa

Synopsis An interesting late Roman Porno scripted by top writer Haruhiko Arai (Distant Thunder, Vibrator, It's Only Talk). The film takes place in a small town during a typhoon. A woman living alone is visited by her ex-husband. At the same...

Direction Ji-shun Duan · Junya Sato · Shu'an Liu

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Misako Konno · Nobuko Otowa · Hideji Ôtaki

Synopsis Ten years before the outbreak of the Second World War in Asia, a Japanese Go master and his Chinese rival meet in China to play a game of Go (loosely described as an Asian version of chess). It soon becomes...

Direction Takashige Ichise

Cast Masaya Kato · Takeshi Kusaka · Kaho Minami · Naoko Nozawa

Synopsis The year is 1945. After the horrific fire-bombings of the Pacific War levels Japan to the ground, the government decides to consult spiritual psychics to aid them in winning the war. Unfortunately, the resentment and agony of the souls of...

Direction Akiyoshi Kimata

Cast Mika Mifune · Toshirô Yanagiba · Mitsuru Hirata · Yumi Asou

Synopsis Fourteen-year old student Ayumi has leukemia and starts losing hair. She becomes depressed but receives overwhelming support from her classmates when they all shave their heads for her.

Direction Kichitaro Negishi

Cast Toshiyuki Nagashima · Johnny Okura · Eri Ishida · Rie Yokoyama

Synopsis A young man living on growing tomatoes in a greenhouse in a residential area. Tomato cultivation is as doomed as his personal life where he tries to keep alive his romance with the eccentric Kaede and parents selected fiancee Ayako.

Direction Kirio Urayama

Cast Choichiro Kawarazaki · Toshie Kobayashi · Ruriko Asaoka · Chikako Natsumi

Synopsis Tsutomu Yoshioka, a Tokyo office worker, is enaged to Mariko, the niece of his company's president. But Yoshioka has a crisis of consence when he remembers his former love Mitsu, a rural girl whom he met and later left while...

Direction Kirio Urayama

Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Kinya Kitaoji · Kirin Kiki · Mayumi Ogawa

Synopsis The beautiful Yumechiyo returns home with the crushing news that her atom-bomb-induced illness is leukemia. With less than 6 months to live she falls in love with a young man.

Direction Sôkichi Tomimoto

Cast Momoe Yamaguchi · Tomokazu Miura · Kô Nishimura · Eiko Nagashima

Synopsis Teenage cousins Masao and Tamiko fall in love when she comes to his riverside brewery house to take care of his sickly mother. Family objections ensue as Tamiko is older than Masao, and the two cannot marry in peace.

Direction Noboru Tanaka

Cast Mari Tanaka · Mikiko Sakai · Chigusa Takayama · Michiko Komori

Synopsis Roman Porno film depicting the great uproar that the children cause in the division of their property, even before their parents are dead, as they claw at their greed.

Direction Makoto Wada

Cast Hiroyuki Sanada · Shinobu Otake · Takeshi Kaga · Mariko Kaga

Synopsis A mahjong neophyte loses everything to game master only to hone his skills, take on all challenges and plan for an ultimate revenge match.

Direction Noboru Tanaka

Cast Melka Seri · Junko Miyashita · Genshu Hanayagi · Moeko Ezawa

Direction Shôgorô Nishimura

Cast Kazuko Shirakawa · Tatsuya Hamaguchi · Maki Nanjô

Synopsis A working-class housewife is sexually unsatisfied by her husband, and seeks fulfillment through extramarital relationships. Her affairs are discovered by a female brothel-owner who then blackmails the woman into working in her stable of prostitutes.

Direction Masaru Konuma

Cast Mina Asami · Ryoko Watanabe · Nami Matsukawa · Shigeru Muroi

Synopsis An inmate attempts to escape from prison and is confronted by the guard.

Direction Mitsuo Yanagimachi

Cast Asuka Okasaka · Hiroshi Fujioka · Qian Po · Gu Xiao Tong

Synopsis In order to support himself while living in Japan, the Chinese student Ho Jun works in a slaughterhouse in Tokyo, lives with lots of other poor Chinese students in cheap rooms, and suffers the constantly arrogant and discriminating behavior of...

Direction Masaru Konuma

Cast Yuri Yamashina · Misa Aoyama

Synopsis Story, about a young man who literally bumps into a prostitute who lives with and looks after her wheelchair-confined brother.