Cinequest

Lady Moonflower

Kizaki kidnaps Yuriko and engages in a rape and torture session with her, which he photographs. With the photos, he blackmails flower arrangement teacher Yumeji, Yuriko's older sister. Rather than allow him to shame her clan by sending the photos to the media, Yumeji goes to Kizaki. Kizaki then proceeds to rape and torture Yumeji, who was his true desire all along.

Secret of One Summer

A daughter returns home to her ailing adopted father. A home that has a violent past, missing money and a tragic misunderstanding.

Dan-no-ura Night

Taken out of the pages of history itself, this is the story of the sizzling love between Kenreimon-in of the Taira Clan and Yoshitsuné of the Minamoto Clan. When the Taira Clan had met ignominious defeat at the hands of Yoshitsuné, Kenreimon-in had jumped into the sea with her son, the infant Emperor, but only she had been rescued by Yoshitsuné. A rough-hewn warrior, Yoshitsuné had taken her by force until he awakened an answering love in the Empress with his chamber techniques.

The Red Shoes: Tokyo Rape Incident

The daughter of divorced parents lives with her mother in Tokyo. On the weekends, she takes the train to her hometown of Koga, in Ibaraki Prefecture, to visit her father and old friends. Inspired by the unresolved Shinjuku Kabukicho Disco Nampa Murder Case that occurred in early June, 1982.

Gate of Flesh

The background is Yuraku-cho in Tokyo and the film shows how desperately the women, who had led sheltered lives before the war, struggled to keep alive and the innate strength of post-war women.

Anne's Lullaby

A single woman has a series of messy relationships while feeling that her maternal clock is running out.

The General and His Empire of Joy

Zenjiro (Masaru Shiga) is a lowlife criminal, roaming the country with his merry band of crooks, gamblers and rapists. When he gets done with his latest escapade of banging a samurai's wife, he finds that his love Okoyo (Eiko Matsuda), has managed to be recruited as one of Shogun Tokugawa Ietsuna's (Kantaro Suga) concubines. While attempting to win her back, Zenjiro becomes involved in increasingly murderous palace intrigues.

Female Convict 101: Suck

A troubled ex-prostitute turned barkeep is enchanted by the love of a younger man named Kenichi. After trusting a violent junkie to help with her young lover’s singing career, she is sent to prison for murder. Now known only as Prisoner 101, she spends her days in the dirty prison system full of violent guards and sexually-aggressive inmates.

Wakazuma ga nureru toki

What was the trauma that turned a demure middle class wife into a slum dwelling whore while the husband is away at work?

Eros Nights in Tokyo

A horny college student is spotted peeping and is chased into a dark tunnel. He mysteriously emerges into a topsy turvy erotic dreamland.

Sekkusu dokku: Midarana chiryō

A sex therapist treats various couples who are having problems in bed.

Secret Honeymoon: Assault Train

After a bungled robbery attempt, two thugs kidnap a bride on her wedding day.

Sex Horoscope: Love Tasting

On the advice of their horoscopes, a scenario writer, a producer and a director take a working vacation to a hot spring in the hopes of finishing their porn script. For the next week, the three men conduct interviews with many young women, seeking to discover their next starlet.

Boss Girl Mafia: Flesh Punishment (Lynch)

Two young delinquent girls survive on the streets by selling themselves as high school students. But the local girl gang catches them working their territory and brings them to their boss. After they witness a girl getting brutally punished for not obeying their rules the two are given a choice. Join or suffer the consequences. Thus begins a battle of wills and razors as two headstrong women clash.

Late Bloom: Campus Erotica

The Best of a Summer

A female college student who grew up in a wealthy family, and a younger half-sister who doesn't even know who she is. She is a young and mature mother-in-law. A variety of dazzling, sexy, and slightly sentimental stories set under the scorching midsummer sun, centered around a mysterious and strange man who enters their lives. A unique experience unfolds in a seaside town.

Confessions of a Teenage Mother

After having dropped out of school and given birth at age 16, Mako has little choice but to move in with the baby's deadbeat father. Struggling to make ends meet by working at a bar and in constant conflict with her conservative parents, Mako has to find her way in a harsh world.

Movies by Tokuko Watanabe