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Grapefruit no yôna onna: Sei ran no hibi (1981)

  • Drama
  • 61 min
  • ★ 2.0/10 from 2 ratings

A stylist and jazz lover meets a jazz musician who plays exceptionally well at a live music venue, and they fall in love. For the woman, love means intensely desiring the other person to the point of suffocation every single second, and that's how they truly love each other. Then the man receives an offer for a long-term performance in New York. For a jazz musician, a New York performance is a dream. The man leaves. At first, the woman is almost driven mad by loneliness, but eventually she starts to try to distract herself from that loneliness with other men. It is then that she realizes she is pregnant with the man's child…

Directed byHideko Okiyama

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    Kurutta seiyoku-sha: Shufu o osou!

    Strong story similarity

    1979 · 63 min · Drama

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    A man was sentenced to prison for rape. After he was released on parole he had a difficult time finding work. He tried to resist the sexual urges that put him away but his inner beast keeps resurfacing with brutal results. Then one day on his way to another interview he meets a married woman.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • shared themes: pink film and softcore
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    Jitsuroku: Chikan kyôshi

    Strong story similarity

    1983 · 65 min · Drama

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    Shirasaki is a physical education teacher who is also popular with female students. However, Shirasaki also had worries that he could not tell anyone about. It was his fiancé Kuniko's cleanliness. Still, Shirasaki tries not to disappoint her expectations for him. Even when Yuki, a female student who has a crush on Shirasaki, suddenly approaches Shirasaki in an attempt to attract his attention, he never crosses the line. However, one night, as he walks in the same direction as a woman who got off the bus, he is mistaken for another man and Shirasaki's life begins to take a turn for the worse.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • shared themes: pink film and softcore
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    Wife Collector

    Strong story similarity

    1985 · 63 min · Drama

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    A taxi driving, punk rock listening, serial rapist with a bad attitude picks up female fares, sedates them with gas and takes them to his grungy lair where he video tapes his sexual abuse.

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    • shared theme: pink film
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    Dirty Blue

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    1992 · 61 min

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    A standard pinku-eiga entry from prolific cult director Hisayasu Sato, this softcore melodrama centers on a successful female magazine editor with a handsome fiancé. The good-looking, successful couple seems to be the picture of happiness, until the young woman meets a kinky dentist who helps her to discover the pleasures of pain.

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    • shared themes: pink film and softcore
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  5. 05

    Kyōko Aizen: Afternoon Love Affair

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    1993 · 61 min

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    Junko, frustrated by her impotent husband, visits her friend Kumiko's bar. There, she confesses her sexual troubles to Kumiko, who introduces her to a certain man. In the afternoon at a city hotel, Junko hesitantly accepts Kumiko's invitation, but...

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