Screenplay: Tatsumi Kumashiro

Direction Tatsumi Kumashiro

Cast Junko Miyashita · Melka Seri · Naomi Oka · Aoi Nakajima

Plot 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...

Direction Tatsumi Kumashiro

Cast Sayuri Ichijo · Hiroko Isayama · Kazuko Shirakawa · Gô Awazu

Plot Set in a variety theater in the center of Osaka, a young strip-tease artist, Harumi (Hiroko Isayama), has had enough of the lesbian act she performs with Mari, and is...

Direction Tatsumi Kumashiro

Cast Shin Kishida · Naomi Tani · Melka Seri · Terumi Azuma

Plot The comedic tribulations of a self-important porn film director feature in this Japanese softcore equivalent of Boogie Nights. Tatsumi Kumashiro has been cited as one of the most important Japanese...

Direction Tatsumi Kumashiro

Cast Junko Miyashita · Hideaki Esumi · Gô Awazu · Moeko Ezawa

Plot Sex and money collide at a geisha house before the Russo-Japanese War, where a first-time customer about to be married becomes deeply involved with an experienced geisha. The other women,...

Direction Tatsumi Kumashiro

Cast Rie Nakagawa · Tetsu Ôe · Koichi Hori · Chizuyu Azami

Plot Katsu, a young man who has spent five years drifting around Japan, returns to his coastal village hometown hoping to restart his life. Though the villagers recognize him, he refuses...

Direction Tatsumi Kumashiro

Cast Mieko Harada · Ryudo Uzaki · Rentarô Mikuni · Yoshio Harada

Plot Two men and a woman plan to steal 1.5 Billion yen.

Direction Tatsumi Kumashiro

Cast Kenichi Hagiwara · Mitsuko Baisho · Keiko Takahashi · Kaoru Kobayashi

Plot An adult 's romantic drama depicting the conflict between the husband who ran to the woman and the conflicts of the remaining wife who knew that there was not a...

Direction Toru Murakawa

Cast Ichirô Araki · Hiroko Isayama

Plot A girl falls for a pickpocketer who gets arrested, so she hooks up with his ex-girlfriend and his ex-cellmate.

Direction Tatsumi Kumashiro

Cast Kenichi Hagiwara · Chieko Baisho · Mitsuko Baisho · Masatô Ibu

Direction Tatsumi Kumashiro

Cast Melka Seri · Masami Ishii · Kiyoyasu Adachi · Naomi Tani

Plot Akira and Hiroshi are two lowlives who hang around pachinko parlours. Hiroshi is a ladies’ man but always loses at pachinko. Akira is a virgin at 25 but always wins....

Direction Hidehiro Ito

Cast Sho Aikawa · Jun'ichirô Asano · Dankan · Hakuryu

Direction Tatsumi Kumashiro

Cast Hiroko Isayama · Rie Nakagawa · Hatsuo Yamatani · Moeko Ezawa

Plot A girl takes refuge in a remote hotel only to be drawn into a world of shocking depravity. Achingly beautiful candlelit cinematography entices the unwitting viewer into a disturbing Sadean...

Direction Tatsumi Kumashiro

Cast Eiji Okuda · Eiko Nagashima · Reiko Takashima · Sho Aikawa

Plot Tanaka is a yakuza who collects 'protection money' from establishments. He has just been released from jail, where he had spent eight years, and finds out that his boss wants...

Direction Tatsumi Kumashiro

Cast Yuriko Sumi · Reiko Nakamura · Yuya Uchida · Moeko Ezawa

Plot A washed-up middle-aged rocker, divorcing his wife and living with his girlfriend, a soap massage parlor worker.