Distorted Sense of Touch(1985)

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.

Antiporno(ja)

Kyôko, a traumatized young Japanese girl, finds herself struggling with her self-confidence in her adult life. Growing up in a family without her mother and her sister, she constantly questions the rationale of sex and the notion of liberty in modern Japanese society.

Sex and Fury(ja)

Sex & Fury chronicles Ocho's exploits as she searches for her father's killers, each identified by unique tattoos on their backs (a deer, a boar, and a butterfly). Along the way, she also crosses paths with Shunosuke, a radical set on murdering prominent politician Kurokawa, and Christina, an American spy posing as a gambler.

Intentions of Murder(ja)

The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condition who seduces her with the prospect of a better life.

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.

Sakuran(ja)

Kiyoha rises from the lowly courtesan ranks to the high class position of Oiran in the steamy red-light district of Yoshiwara. She is determined to stand on her own two feet and live life as she pleased.

Pastoral: To Die in the Country(ja)

A director faces creative block while working on his latest film – a reimagination of his adolescence growing up in a mountain village in rural Japan.

Blood and Bones(ja)

In 1923, teenager Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island, in South Korea, to Osaka, in Japan. Along the years, he becomes a cruel, greedy and violent man and builds a factory of kamaboko, processed seafood products, in his poor Korean-Japanese community exploiting his employees.

Family Romance, LLC(en)

Love is a business at Family Romance, a company that rents human stand-ins for any occasion. Founder Yuichi Ishii helps make his clients’ dreams come true. But when the mother of 12-year-old Mahiro hires Ishii to impersonate her missing father, the line between acting and reality threatens to blur.

Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41(ja)

After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a female prison full of sadistic guards and disobedient prisoners.

Taboo(ja)

Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors are trained in swordfighting. A number of interpersonal conflicts are brewing in the training room, all centering around a handsome young samurai named Sozaburo Kano. The school's stern master can choose to intervene, or to let Kano decide his own path.

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.

Call Me Crazy: A Five Film(en)

A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds(en)

Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters Ruth and Matilda are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea room but does not have the wherewithal to achieve her lofty goal. Epileptic Ruth is a rebellious adolescent, while shy but highly intelligent and idealistic Matilda seeks solace in her pets and school projects, including one designed to show how small amounts of radium affect marigolds.

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.

Split(en)

The story of a young woman who takes an epic journey to claim her own darkness and sexuality so she can stop putting it into the hands of her abusive lover. When Inanna, a young actress, working as a stripper, becomes obsessed with a mask maker, she sacrifices parts of herself and her life, piece by piece, in order to win his love. At the same time she enters a mythic journey in the theater. One that forces her to face the many abuses endured by women around that world and that blurs her performance, her dreams and her real life and results in a provocative and powerful confrontation that frees her. -- from official website

The Poker House(en)

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

Gracie(en)

A teenager faces an uphill battle when she fights to give women the opportunity to play competitive soccer.

The Tale of The Princess Kaguya(ja)

Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo by an old bamboo cutter and his wife, a tiny girl grows rapidly into an exquisite young lady. The mysterious young princess enthrals all who encounter her. But, ultimately, she must confront her fate.

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?

Pink Curtain(ja)

Okuyama is a stocker at the supermarket who has no luck with women. His life is thrown upside down when his sister Noriko unexpectedly moves into his small apartment. Okuyama is overcome with lustful thoughts for her, but she regards him simply as a brother.

HEAT -Incandescence- PART I(ja)

A young man named Tatsumi Karasawa suddenly rises in the criminal world of Shinjuku, Tokyo, and becomes the leader of a group of amateurs who show no reluctance to face police and gangs alike. His successes in the Tokyo underground make a chief and a yakuza boss plot a conspiracy to eliminate him.

Shaved Bondage Demon(ja)

Several people are interviewed about the twisted story of a man who only gets an erection from shaving female pubic hair. Distributed by Xces / Nikkatsu.

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.

Monzetsu OL: Ijô na Zengi(ja)

Miharu, who dreams of marrying a wonderful prince like Cinderella, stays in Kirita's room. Kirita has just become a celebrity. Meanwhile, Miharu's junior colleague Tama-chan is enjoying SM play with the pervert Tashiro. Miharu develops feelings for Kirita, but Kirita has no ability to hold a woman. One day, she begins a physical relationship with Puff's manager, Shou. After 5pm at QL, Miharu, looking for Tama-sama, can't help but smile at the new man who approaches her today!

Danchizuma: Furin Marumie(ja)

A woman has recently married an adult toy manufacturer. He researches new vibrators in the product development department. She hopes that if she marries such a man, she will be able to use the vibrator as much as she likes and have fun every night, but her husband never uses a vibrator on her. She is extremely dissatisfied with this. Meanwhile, her husband's boss, the section chief, is currently developing an anal vibrator, and in the name of experimenting with it, he only uses the anal vibrator on his wife. Her boss's wife wants him to use a normal vibrator, but she is dissatisfied that he only uses it on her anus. As the wives were talking about this, the new wife expressed her interest in anal vibrators, so they decided to swap husbands and have fun with the one in the front and the one in the back. They immediately decided to swap wives...

Someday's Summer: A Campus of Love at Dusk(ja)

His only daughter, Setsuko died in an accident, and his gran-daughter Natsu left home to live with her couple, leaving only Hitoshi in Kimoto's house. His wife has also already left this world. The title of the TV release was "College Girl and Beautiful Mature Woman Can't Say Anything". (Sequel of "Someday's Summer: Free-spirited Female College Students").

Night Trainee: Her Secret(ja)

Oar and Miho, who live in a seaside town, go back and forth between each other's houses, and their parents are childhood friends. Oar, who was in charge of managing the canning factory, decided to go to Tokyo to receive training that looked ahead to the future. On the last night before the departure, Oar and Miho are fiercely seeking each other. The next morning, they talked about the future while walking along the beach and made a promise such as calling once a day. However, Oar who is worried about unfamiliar sales work and human relationships. Miho also discovers her father's illness, is exhausted by her nursing and long-term care, and she can no longer keep the phone once a day. Eventually, Oar was forced to leave the office after witnessing his boss's infidelity and being dressed in his embezzlement. Oars who cannot speak honestly cannot return to their hometowns, and they pass each other and become estranged.

Poisonous Caress(ja)

A Pinku film from the independent production studio Kanto featuring a starring role for the former Japanese sex symbol Hisako 'Choko' Tsukuba.

Lady Ecstasy: Pleasure Profound(ja)

Wanted: For Forced Entry(ja)

Yuriko has been forced into a life with no freedom due to her husband’s domestic violence. Her friend Mari is worried about her but recruits her to a newly emerged religion in the hopes of helping her find happiness. However, there is no one that can save Yuriko from her despair. Meet Yoshii, a man who was in jail for killing his wife. After being released from prison, he immediately starts to plan a robbery/rape. He browses through the cell phone he stole from Mari’s house, and comes across a photo of Yuriko in her underwear, wearing an eyepatch. He decides that she will be his next target. He plans his entry when Yuriko’s husband is out of the house; once he gets into the house he sees a naked Yuriko all chained up. Yuriko, who was able to escape because of the robbery, starts to live together with Yoshii. Yoshii, who is dealing with the trauma of killing his wife, seems to fit well with Yuriko. That is until a certain incident causes everything to go wrong…

Unfinished Book, Unfinished Love(ja)

Yoshioka is a struggling sensual novel author. His wife, Michiru, believes in his talent and supports him. Unable to cope with his lack of success, Yoshioka becomes dependent on alcohol and women, causing much grief to Michiru, but she never leaves his side.Yoshioka vows to change and immerses himself in writing, finally publishing a novel and receiving an award. Months pass and one day on the beautiful Ishigakijima island, a drunk Yoshioka visits a local bar and tells the proprietress, Megumi, the story of how he disappointed his wife and eventually lost her in an traffic accident. Seeing the extent of his grief, Megumi tells Yoshioka about the Ishigakijima legend about a special “fragrance satchel”. If you take the satchel with you and go to a particular lighthouse, you will be able to meet a person who has died one last time for a short duration, until the smell of the satchel fades away. She hands him this fragrance satchel.

Yogari no mori: Hotetta onna-tachi(ja)

Tomoki Hamasaki failed in job hunting after graduating from university. He was disappointed in the interview he received as a graduate. One day, when he went deep into the mountains to try to hang himself, he met workers in the mountains who were engaged in logging and worked as they were. He met Michiko Yamada, a woman who works here, but she had a secret.

Onsen jōwa: Yubune de momi gaeri(ja)

Asuka, who lost her father and mother due to a natural disaster, revisits the hot spring inn that they once visited. Asuka hears that there is a way to pick up Nakai's vegetables or reunite with a dead person, and begins training.

Tsurekomu onna: Shita gari bocchi(ja)

Aimi, a mistress who never talks to customers. Although her appearance and play content have been well received, she continues to be cut off from the store due to his unfriendliness, and she is changing stores. One day, Aimi was cut off again and decided to live in an accident property with a shared toilet without a bath, which has a low rent. Aimi, who became a town, meets Kaoru, who sells a mysterious "Shishu", and Eguchi, a theoretical physicist who talks about parallel worlds, deepens exchanges, and has a mysterious experience in the world.

Joshi daisei les: Bôkan no wana(ja)

The industrial group's boss, Fujita, has used bad means for the prosperity of his company. In recent years, he tried to take over a rival company, but failed, and he was noticed by the prosecution. He was driving to a villa in the mountains to destroy evidence, and on the way he encountered a fallen woman, Tomoko, and took him with him. After learning that Tomoko, who had regained consciousness, tried to commit suicide, Fujita sympathized a little and offered a guidepost to live as a concubine if she wanted to die anyway. Push Tomoko who resists to the bed and fulfill her desire. The next day, the company contacts me and finds out that I'm going to get rid of it. Fujita, who is impatient, tries to return immediately, but when Tomoko, who has become obedient overnight, sees her carrying coffee in a naked apron, she forgets to go home and plays with her and tastes it again.

Okusama wa 18-sai: Chô dokidoki hoken-shitsu(ja)

Momoko, who attends the prestigious private school, is a married couple with a school nurse, Ryunosuke. Only Momoko's uncle, the principal, Abe, knew the secret. One day before graduation, a new vice-principal, Hisae, will be transferred. Momoko's best friend, Airi, is a fan of Ryunosuke, and for some reason she appears in the health room and provokes. Ryunosuke is unaffected by the temptation. Momoko, who came to pick up Airi, felt a mysterious mood and was angry inside. While leaving school, when she sees Momoko in a bad mood, Airi stabs her nails as if she is aiming for Ryunosuke. To Momoko who denies it, Airi gets excited with the bottom story, saying, "You're the prince of your fingers." Taiki, the most talented person in the school, looks at these two people from behind. Ryunosuke steals his letter and tries to help him with his feelings, but when he finds out that he is giving it to Momoko, the romance confiscates the letter and the law until the exam is over.

Do-sukebe bôzu no zetsurin seikatsu(ja)

Saburo runs away from home without telling his wife, Kyoko, that he was restructured. Saburo was given the name of Unkokusai when he was told by a mysterious priest, Chinkokusai, who appeared in front of him at a loss to become the same priest as himself. The husband and sister started living together from the married woman Shiori who met, and it is said that this is because the evil spirits possessed them, and they are invited to their home. A fake monk, Unkokusai, tries to enjoy the body of beautiful sisters as a reward.

Apartment Wife: Body Hell(ja)

A bored and frustrated wife meets an old lover who knows how to satisfy her pent-up passions. Unfortunately she finds out that he runs a call girl business.

Hurricane Rape(ja)

Iwata, cheerleader of a university, Odagiri, a free lance cameraman, and Sekiguchi, a day laborer working on a subway project. As they pass an area dotted with the villas of affluent people, they decide to stop at one to ask the owner to let them put through a phone call. What they seen when they enter the gate makes them draw in their breaths quickly and causes their pulses to begin to race madly – Miki, a lass whose only claim to fortune are marvelous breasts, cute nipples and a figure even every top model dreams of having...