Cinequest

In the Realm of the Senses

A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual relationship.

Cloistered Nun: Runa's Confession

Sisterhood is powerful. Before leaving for a mission in Africa, Runa, a nun, visits her sister three years after entering the convent when her sister stole Runa's boyfriend. Runa comes to forgive and to help her sister make enough money buying and selling some convent property so she can marry. The old boyfriend has new women in his life, but he and the sister tell Runa they're a couple in order to keep the property deal. To make even more money, Runa's sister wheedles large gifts from various men she's stringing along. There are flashbacks ...

High School Lynching

A high school girl’s affair with a college aged tutor is thwarted by her new step-mother. Sent to live with her aunt she must contend with delinquent students and a seemly cruel world.

Kaoru Kiri: The Best Lesbian In Japan, Authentic Account

A backstage documentary and interview with the real life lesbian stage performer Kaoru Kiri mixed with a fictional life of her rejected lover.

Damp Bank Notes

The dull and disappointing life of an office lady is enlivened when she meets hot younger lover. But in order to keep him and feed his gambling obsession she resorts to crime.

Last Day of the Red Light District: March 31, 1958

The lives and loves of several prostitutes are shown on the night the Prostitution Prevention Law goes into effect and criminalizes their profession.

Zoku tameiki

Nikkatsu Roman Porno

Maruhi nikutai chokyôshi

When a poor student can’t pay his bill at a snack bar a mysterious woman pays it for him. She ends up taking a room at the boarding house where he lives. With her lively personality she becomes erotically involved with all the residents living there and helps with their various sexual problems.

The Nineteen-Year-Old's Map

A 19-year-old newspaper delivery boy begins collecting information on the households in his neighborhood and keeping a journal of why he doesn't like them. Declaring himself a 'right-winger' and calling in bomb threats against the neighbors he doesn't like, the 19-year-old begins a war of psychological terror against the families in his neighborhood.

Erotic Diary of an Office Lady

Asami Ogawa in her first leading role as an office lady with a healthy sexual appetite who grows bored with the limited choices that society offers her.

Karūseru Maki: yoru wa watashi o nurasu

An older nightclub hostess has to choose between a relationship with her loser boyfriend who owes the yakuza money and a music producer who wants to make her a star.

Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War

On their way back from the Cannes Film Festival in 1971, filmmakers Wakamatsu Koji and Adachi Masao visited Lebanon to meet Japan's Red Army faction and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine to shoot a newsreel film promoting the Palestinian resistance. Conceived as a ‘declaration of world war’ that implicates us all, the directors capture the everyday banality of military training and preparation exercises for imminent battle.

The Bride was Wet

A yakuza plot goes terribly wrong. This involves a soon-to-be bride.

The Vanity of the Shogun's Mistress

Since the arrival of the Black Ships, the Tokugawa Shogunate's dream of peace has been shattered, and the succession problem of the ailing Shogun Iesada has become a headache. At the same time, Tamamo, a prostitute in Yoshiwara, is dismissed from her position at the behest of a high-ranking noble family who has come on a secret mission.

Female Teacher: Sweet Life

A female teacher at a high school. Perhaps because of her germaphobia, she was still single and devoted herself to her education without even thinking about marriage. However, she often hit her students, which resulted in repeated protests from her vice principal and parents...

Hihon: Sode to sode

Writer and ladies-man Yonosuke, who gives inept English lessons (using Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet), is mistakenly ushered into the back entrance of a woman's house one rainy night. When he finds out that her husband is away at war in Russia he tries to take advantage of the situation. Her honor is saved when he discovers she is wearing a chastity belt. But she is lonely and she has the key...

Nasty Diver

The amorous adventures of three shellfish divers who live and work in a rural fishing village.

Nikutai no akuma

A high school boy with violent impulsive tendencies begins a troubled relationship with an older woman he sees at a funeral.

Jitsuroku: Ganso manaita shô