Painful Bliss: Final Twist

Brother

A Japanese Yakuza gangster's deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, where he is taken in by his little brother and his brother's gang. Original Title: ブラザー

3.6

1976

Wet Vase

Naomi Tani plays bar-owner Aki, whose entire world appears to be crumbing whenever she discovers her husband is having an affair along with her own mama. Truly the only individual she can trust is Iwasaki, the woman club supervisor. One time, she asks Iwasaki to accompay her to a company meeting with a trader Hanamatsu, the owner of a mannequin factory. At the warehouse, Miss Aki is abnormally aroused when she sees Hanamatsu toching the mannequins. She allows by herself to be seduced by the businessman…

3.7

Boys Hitting the Road

A bar in Shinjuku 2-chome. Toru is the manager of this bar, but one day, the owner, Ishii, suddenly passes away. The bar is to close, and Toru receives a list of regulars from Takano, the accountant, and decides to start a journey to collect retirement benefits. Together with Kenichi, the bar's number one, they borrow Ishii's old car and set off to northern Kanto. First up is Sato, a company president with a foot fetish. Although married, he can't stop playing around with men, and whenever he comes to Tokyo, he requests Kenichi. In order not to let the people around him know, he gives Kenichi more money than the tab. Next is Yamamoto, a city council member in the local assembly. A born sadist, he likes to tie Kenichi himself or have a young bondage artist tie him up, and then watch it happen. Kenichi continues on his journey, but he has another goal: to meet Shouji, a man he used to date...

7.5

2002

Dolls

Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided by the live characters. Chief among those tales is the story of Matsumoto and Sawako, a young couple whose relationship is about to be broken apart by the former's parents, who have insisted their son take part in an arranged marriage to his boss' daughter.

1987

Oishii Onna-tachi

Yuko is a sexy club singer that used to live with her lover. One day, her lover died in a traffic accident. Yuko is overwhelmed with sorrow, but a man who claims to be her lover's brother suddenly appears, causing a confrontation over the remains. In addition, the manager of the apartment where Yuko lives joins in, and it develops into a big commotion.

Rental College Student, Carnal Desire in Arrears

4.8

Rental College Student, Carnal Desire in Arrears

After repeatedly failing in his job search, Teruki eventually became a recluse. Yuki invites him to join the ‘rent-a-person’ business. Naturally earnest, Teruki makes a fresh start and begins tackling various requests together with Yuki. [Exists in two versions with two different titles: the original R18 version (Rental College Student, Carnal Desire in Arrears) and the R15 version (Beauty and the Idiot)].

7.0

2018

Tokyo Noir

Narumi has decided to retire from the underworld society with which he has been involved for 20 years. He also informs his colleague and attends his final smuggled handgun deal. Suddenly, shows up and the client is shot to death accidentally. That client was an undercover police investigator, so Narumi is now facing a predicament.

6.1

1985

Orgasm: Mariko

Under a full moon near a highway bridge a woman has sex with her boyfriend during her period. Unfortunately the boyfriend is accidentally killed by a flying pop bottle from a passing delivery truck. This triggers a story of bloody revenge.

6.7

2001

Wasabi

Hubert is a French policeman with very sharp methods. After being forced to take 2 months off by his boss, who doesn't share his view on working methods, he goes back to Japan, where he used to work 19 years ago, to settle the probate of his girlfriend who left him shortly after marriage without a trace.

Let's Go Hot Spring

Rinko inherits her parents’ public bath after they pass away. She starts to manage the business with the help of an old and experienced worker, Mr. Tame. However, she soon realizes traditional public bath are no longer marketable in this new century. Rinko thinks of a "Bikini Body Wash Service" to attract more customers.

4.2

1983

Pink Cut: Love Me Hard, Love Me Deep

Mami runs a barber shop called The Pink Cut. The place is an immediate success, due mostly to super-short skirts. Recently, Akira, who is anxious about not finding a job, has started coming to her shop. Although he has a girlfriend, he is soon interested in Mami.

Taxi 2

A cabdriver and a cop race to Paris to rescue a love interest and the Japanese minister of defense from kidnappers.

1981

Kyôretsu sex: Yokujô kangofu

A father is a Director of a hospital. His adult son is the young doctor. Both them and the nurses have unconventional methods of treating patients.

6.7

2019

First Love

One night in Tokyo, Leo, a young boxer, meets his first love, Monica, an imprisoned sex worker. Caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme, they find themselves pursued by a corrupt cop, a yakuza, his nemesis, and a female assassin.

6.9

2022

Goodbye Cruel World

Anzai, Mutoh, Hamada, Hagiwara, and Miru are in a car headed to a love hotel used by the Sugiyama Clan for money laundering. This one night only gang succeed in robbing them blind and though they were supposed to go their separate ways after splitting the money, the five end up being hunt down by a detective hired by the clan and clan members themselves. An ending nobody ever even dreamed of.

1.0

2022

Hentai zôsan: Watashi no momoiro shidô

The sales department of the insurance company Elephant Insurance. Komori, a rookie salesman who can't get a contract, was yelled at by General Manager Gonda almost every day. On the other hand, Gonda was lenient towards Minami, whose contract was similarly stagnant. That's because Minami was Gonda's affair partner, but she was also treated rudely by the director.

1976

Cruel Bondage Picture Legend

It was a tumultuous time. In the early Meiji period, there was the first photographer in Japan who lived a heroic life. What fascinated him with photography was a photograph of a naked woman.

1952

Jirocho Rises in Fame

The rise of the famed gambler.

3.2

1987

Lesbian School

A female teacher's lesbian desires are reawakened with one of her students.

2013

Namameki wafuku tsuma no chitai

Satsuki, a wife who was suffocating in life with her husband who worked from home, returned to her parents' home in Kumamoto for the first time in a while. So I decided to call a business trip host just on a whim. On the other hand, her husband, Takahiro, did not go well and began to devote himself to a part-time job as a business trip host.

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7.3

1973

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1992

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6.5

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6.2

2002

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7.5

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6.9

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6.7

1969

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Coyote Ugly

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2013

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7.2

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6.1

2009

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6.1

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7.8

2006

Memories of Matsuko

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2014

Flower & Snake: Zero

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7.2

1966

The Pornographers

Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society, and he uses the money to support his landlady, Haru, and her family. From time to time, Haru shares her bed with Subu, though she believes her dead husband, reincarnated as a carp, disapproves. Director Shohei Imamura has always delighted in the kinky exploits of lowlifes, and in this 1966 classic, he finds subversive humor in the bizarre dynamics of Haru, her Oedipal son, and her daughter, the true object of her pornographer-boyfriend’s obsession. Imamura’s comic treatment of such taboos as voyeurism and incest sparked controversy when the film was released, but The Pornographers has outlasted its critics, and now seems frankly ahead of its time.

1998

Strike!

In the 1960s, a group of friends at an all girls school learn that their school is going to be combined with a nearby all boys school. They concoct a plan to save their school while dealing with everyday problems along the way.

6.9

1969

Double Suicide

Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the strict social and moral codes of 18th-century Japan. But when he meets the lovely courtesan Koharu, he becomes a man obsessed. Koharu returns his love, even foregoing other customers while Jihei schemes to somehow buy her freedom. His efforts yield ruinous consequences for his business and his family life, and Koharu is meanwhile purchased by another client.