Shûchishin(1986)

I Believe in Unicorns(en)

Feeling awkward and isolated, an imaginative and strong-willed teenage girl runs away from home with an older punk rock drifter.

The Poker House(en)

Agnes and her two sisters struggle through a day in a home overrun by gamblers, thieves, and johns.

Tokyo Decadence(ja)

A submissive hooker goes about her trade, suffering abuse at the hands of Japanese salarymen and Yakuza types. She's unhappy about her work, and is apparently trying to find some sort of appeasement for the fact that her lover has married.

Shara(ja)

The Aso family live in the old town of Nara. One Day, Kei, one of the Aso's twin boys suddenly disappears. Five years later seventeen-year old Shun, the remaining twin, is an art student. He now has to move forward with his life, together with his childhood friend, Yu.

Bruised(en)

Jackie Justice is a mixed martial arts fighter who leaves the sport in disgrace. Down on her luck and simmering with rage and regret years after the fight, she's coaxed into a brutal underground fight by her manager and boyfriend Desi and grabs the attention of a fight league promoter who promises Jackie a life back in the Octagon. But the road to redemption becomes unexpectedly personal when Manny - the son she gave up as an infant - shows up at her doorstep. A triumphant story of a fighter who reclaims her power, in and out of the ring, when everyone has counted her out

Sky(en)

A woman embarks on a journey alone across the United States after fleeing from her violent husband.

Hellion(en)

When motocross and heavy metal obsessed, 13-year-old Jacob's delinquent behavior forces CPS to place his little brother Wes with his aunt, Jacob and his emotionally absent father must finally take responsibility for their actions and each other in order to bring Wes home.

Return(en)

Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes.

Suburbia(en)

When household tensions and a sense of worthlessness overcome Evan, he finds escape when he clings with the orphans of a throw-away society. The runaways hold on to each other like a family until a tragedy tears them apart.

The Trials of Cate McCall(en)

In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.

Starving in Suburbia(en)

When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site founder, ButterflyAna. By the time Hannah's family realizes what is happening and get Hannah the help she needs, the disease has fully taken hold and Hannah is refusing to eat. Will this family be able to exorcise the demon of anorexia from their lives?

From Straight A's to XXX(en)

When a change of circumstances leaves Miriam unable to pay her college tuition, she makes a surprising decision: to start performing in adult films, using the pseudonym Belle Knox. Miriam lies to her family and her friends at school, keeping her double life a secret. But soon rumours spread and Miriam becomes the subject of vicious online attacks and unwanted attention. Miriam fights back: she talks to the media, saying her new line of work empowers her as a feminist. But her confident stand has unintended consequences. Miriam is shunned by her conservative family and her colleagues in the adult film world. One impulsive decision has quickly spiralled out of control - and Miriam's problems are just beginning.

One Million Yen Girl(ja)

A 21-year-old girl is released from prison, only to deal with the neighborhood gossip about her and family conflicts. She decides to save one million yen, move to where no one knows her and keep repeating the process.

Iron Jawed Angels(en)

Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.

The Whispering Star(ja)

A feminine android delivers packages to scattered humans throughout the galaxy. With years to spare, the android and us have time to contemplate the meaning of being human.

Bastard Out of Carolina(en)

A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.

The Safety of Objects(en)

In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.

BLAME!(ja)

In the distant technological future, civilization has reached its ultimate Net-based form. An "infection" in the past caused the automated systems to spiral out of order, resulting in a multi-leveled city structure that replicates itself infinitely in all directions. Now humanity has lost access to the city's controls, and is hunted down and purged by the defense system known as the Safeguard. In a tiny corner of the city, a little enclave known as the Electro-Fishers is facing eventual extinction, trapped between the threat of the Safeguard and dwindling food supplies. A girl named Zuru goes on a journey to find food for her village, only to inadvertently cause doom when an observation tower senses her and summons a Safeguard pack to eliminate the threat. With her companions dead and all escape routes blocked, the only thing that can save her now is the sudden arrival of Killy the Wanderer, on his quest for the Net Terminal Genes, the key to restoring order to the world.

Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl(en)

Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding.

Hounddog(en)

A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.

Chikan to rikon tsuma(ja)

His young wife was assaulted by a man, and they continued their loving relationship after that, so they avoided a criminal case, but a divorce by agreement was reached in the family court. However, in her hidden side, her husband was also a molester. This is a story that exposes these crazy sexual lives and depicts the madness of sexual desire between men and women.

Painful Bliss: Final Twist(ja)

A young executive has a really bad night after an encounter with a crazed bisexual wannabe yakuza and his horny girlfriend.

The Sekkan 2: kairaku-hen(ja)

Two girls who want to become masochists are trained by a sadistic woman and turned into lovers.

Two Lewd Sisters(ko)

Joshidai-ryô: SEX Nozoki shokku(ja)

One day, Reiko, a female college student who aims to be active in the world of mass media, is asked to investigate the actual situation regarding sex among female college students. Reiko infiltrates the girls' dormitory, but as soon as she moves in, Kyoko, who manages her dormitory, forces her to attend a party on Saturday night...

Misty(en)

Misty arrives in a small town to look for her mother who abandoned her 22 years ago. She stays with a bisexual artist and her friends and models for her. Meanwhile, a Christian woman with a secret tries to save her perverted niece.

Teach Me, Ma'm!(tl)

Graduating student Jayson sees a seductive woman in the grocery store and later finds out that she is his new substitute teacher.

The Sex Substitute 2(en)

A magazine article about a sex therapy clinic accidentally gives out the address and phone number of a failing bed and breakfast instead.

Shisei: Nihohi tsuki no gotoku(ja)

Sunao Sato, who runs the studio following the wishes of her parents, who was a master of social dance, was spending days with her sister Hazuki and her partner Ryosuke. One day, Keiji, whose partner was refused in Hazuki, attacks her, and Ryosuke, who happens to pass by accident, saves Hazuki ...

Tenement Apartment: Obscene Affair(ja)

The ordinary life of an executive’s wife is altered when she begins to attend a mysterious club that serves more than just tea.

The Monk Farted(ja)

The story is about Nagatoshi, a handsome and sexy monk played by Kazuhiro Sano, who is struggling for the widow he loves. Foreshadowing the prophecy of the Great Kanto Earthquake, the film is a highly entertaining theatrical spectacle that depicts the human condition of a downtown area undergoing development and the efforts of men and women who rebel against it.

Angel in September(ja)

One day, Hitomi observes her classmate Eriko stealing lipstick in a drugstore and follows her home. The two young women get to know and love each other. While the withdrawn Hitomi believes herself and Eriko to be reincarnations of angel warriors who once fought demon armies, her emancipated and apathetic friend wanders through life between sex contacts with older men and fear of falling into a boring bourgeois existence. The different futures of the two soon lead to tensions.

End of the World(ja)

A fugitive man and woman (Kawase, Kawana) come to an island to retrieve their son (Iwasaki), who the woman has given to a foster family, but the son's foster parents are policemen (Ito)... The suspense surrounding the retrieval of the son is made unusual by the location shooting on the vast and desolate Miyakejima Island and leads to an allegorical drama about the essential desires of human beings. This was Kawase Yota's first appearance in a Zeze film, and he has since become a regular actor. The title of the film at the time of its first release was Sukebe Tenkomori.

No Good Men(ja)

No Good Men follows Kumiko, a young and attractive woman that works at a travel agency, and moonlights as an insatiable, sex-hungry mistress.

Mia Dek Ja...Pa Wai Teen(th)

A retired Buddhist teacher is introduced by his nephew to Jina, a much younger girl and they marry. But he soon starts to suspect everything is a conspiracy in order to get his money.

Substitute Male Helper(ko)

Hyeon-goo, who got a job as a housekeeper at Mi-na and Seung-mo's house, goes to work for the first time, promising to work hard. Mi-na calls Hyeon-goo, saying she has other things to do besides cleaning, and Hyeon-goo diligently completes Mi-na's work. Then one day, Mi-na makes a new proposal to Hyeon-goo, who was enjoying a secret love affair with Mi-na...

Pervert Observation Shame Hole Bare(ja)

A daughter lives constantly monitored by her recluse father. She develops a state of trance/sleepwalking to satiate her sexual desires.

Dead End(ja)

A man and woman meet when he pulls her out of an icy fountain that she has just jumped into. But their developing romance is marred by bad friends, money troubles and illegal sex work.

Call Girl: Lust Cage(ja)

A former call girl who is now married to a sick older man is drawn into adultery with deadly consequences.

Adult Only Institute(ko)

Chi-soo is a repeater who gets bullied by his friends. However, he had a secret about his body that rumors wouldn't die down about... The secret was that he was the possessor of an outstanding package. Rumors about Chi-soo spread and all the women begin to desire him. Chi-soo who realizes what he has, takes revenge on those who bullied him by conquering all their women...