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Film · 10 connectionsA passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual relationship.
Directed byNagisa Ōshima
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1982 · 107 min · Crime · Drama · Romance
An ardent culture-vulture youth, previously charged for the murder of a woman when he was young, plans to hold hostage a local bank.
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1963 · 123 min · Drama
A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repeating its mistakes, as in an infinite circle. Imamura, with this metaphor, introduces the life of Tome, who keeps trying to change her poor life.
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1979 · 100 min · Horror · Thriller
The life of Tatsuya, a young man of proper yet mysterious descent, whose outward respectability hides his urges for rape and torture.
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1964 · 203 min · Drama
After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life deeply gets in trouble.
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1961 · 91 min · Drama · Mystery · Romance
Tied to a mountain between her brutalizing spouse and her secret lover, disaster strikes; the authorities accuse her of murder and prompt a confession.
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1962 · 124 min · Drama
Based on the life and career of novelist Fumiko Hayashi, she bitterly struggles for literary recognition in the first half of the 20th-century – her affairs with feckless men, the jobs she took to survive (peddler, waitress, bar maid), and her arduous, often humiliating attempts to get published in a male-dominated culture.
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1980 · 68 min · Comedy · Drama
Takao, a sex doctor who solves all kinds of sexual problems. Calling it group therapy, he solves the problems of all kinds of patients with unusual sexual fetishes one after another with his absurd extreme treatment methods. A comical, lewd doctor romantic porn.
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1985 · 134 min · Drama
Drama about the difficult relationship between a former wrestler, his wife and their adopted children.
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1988 · 119 min · Crime · Drama
Prostitutes in burnt out Tokyo ghetto of post-WWII Japan peddle their flesh and save one-third of their money for a proposed dancehall to be named Paradise. The hookers live in a bombed-out building, but they accept the precarious situation with typical resolve.
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1987 · 93 min · Animation · Science Fiction
An anthology of various tales told in various styles with robots being the one common element among them.
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