Category III: The Untold Story of Hong Kong Exploitation Cinema

Akasaka sex zone: Gaijin baishun-fu(ja)

Riding the Groper Train Part 1: What Is Groper Train?(ja)

Mr. Pink Discusses the Groper Train series in this short documentary. Produced by Pink Eiga Inc.

Riding the Groper Train Part 2: The Rise and Fall of Groper Train(ja)

Part 2 of the short documentary about the GROPER TRAIN film series

O-To-Ko's Secret Spot(ja)

The story is about Shinji Kubo, a famous porn actor, infiltrating gay spots in Kansai and getting into wet sex parties everywhere he goes. These gay spots are real gay bars, gay saunas, and hatten bars.

Tender Feeling(zh)

Before Shu Qi's movie career took off, she starred in a few videologs (similar to jap gravure). This is one of them ...

The Sekkan: bangai-hen(ja)

A compilation of cut footage from the "Sekkan" series 1-3, featuring exhibitionist acts and demonstrations of body suspension.

Pink Coffins(es)

In a temple in Thailand, an order of Buddhist monks are performing a ceremony for people who headed there to get re-incarnated. There, we meet Tarn, a young Thai woman who lived in the Basque Country some years ago and who is still fascinated with that region, food and culture.

Buchō no aijin: Pinku no sutokkingu(ja)

Promiscuous Wife's Sexuality: Pleasure Hunting(ja)

Fumio, who works at an ironworks, has an affair with Yoko, the wife of the president of the ironworks. The wife of Shimizu, a detective who investigates Yoko's background at the request of Nobuo, the president of the company, is also having an affair with his mistress, Kenichi. Nobuo becomes angry and impulsive. Upon receiving the report, a jealous Nobuo impulsively kills Shimizu and appears with an iron pipe in front of Fumio and Yoko, who are entangled in an ironworks. The story accelerates toward the end as the impulsive murderer brings together a man and a woman in a love-hate relationship at a villa in Izu....

Mibôjin geshuku: Hatsunori(ja)

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...

Vinyl Book Woman: Close Up Naked(ja)

An older sister who is a model of a vinyl book and a younger sister who has a damn past gangbanged by men. The story about their love and hate goes to a dangerous place with a black passion.

Semi-dokyumento: Maruhi onna niku ichiba(ja)

Lady Ecstasy: Pleasure Profound(ja)

Roman-ko Club: Ecchi ga Ippai(ja)

Eight female members of a high school drama club try various erotic ways to raise money to put on a play.

I Stand Alone - SEX & LOVE(ja)

Set in a metropolis in the 21st century, this unique erotic drama depicts youth colored by sex, drugs, and violence with a touch of science fiction.

New Boarding House Widow: I Can Cum Right Away(ja)

Sex Detective Nana: The Phantom of the Sauna(ja)

Karin, a sex detective, and Nana, an assistant, have protected the peace of Shimbashi based in a Chinese-style oil beauty salon. In the city, a mysterious incident occurs in which women disappear one after another, but Karin is not so absorbed in having sex with the New York Police Department Kasumi. Nana aims to solve the case with a newcomer China Girl Hachi and pseudo-sex detectives who are a reserve army of sex detectives. As the investigation continues, the shadow of a male office worker who is envious of his female boss, as well as the super-male and female criminal association ADAM, begins to flicker.

Blue Skirt: Dangerous Breeding(ja)

A teacher sets out to instruct a young high school girl in what should be an ordinary lesson. Yet when this gal turns out to be an outrageously vivacious, modern-day bombshell, even the simplest classroom routine spirals into a wildly scandalous and forbidden affair. This brazen young student, who deceives her parents and nonchalantly crashes at his home, exudes an almost deliberately provocative and irresistible charm. Although the teacher is a married man, his attempts at reprimand falter under her irresistible sexual features. Could it be that this fiercely free-spirited high schooler—living purely for the thrill of fun ends up transforming her mentor, taking him on an unexpected, sizzling journey into uncharted realms of temptation and forbidden desire?

Hentai kinbaku chôkyô(ja)

A Plastic Ocean(en)

A documentary focused on plastic pollution in the world's oceans.

American Grindhouse(en)

This documentary explores the hidden history of the American Exploitation Film. The movie digs deep into this often overlooked category of U.S. cinema and unearths the shameless and occasionally shocking origins of this popular entertainment.

Seduced and Abandoned(en)

SEDUCED AND ABANDONED combines acting legend Alec Baldwin with director James Toback as they lead us on a troublesome and often hilarious journey of raising financing for their next feature film. Moving from director to financier to star actor, the two players provide us with a unique look behind the curtain at the world's biggest and most glamourous film festival, shining a light on the bitter-sweet relationship filmmakers have with Cannes and the film business. Featuring insights from directors Martin Scorsese, 'Bernando Bertolucci' and Roman Polanski; actors Ryan Gosling and Jessica Chastain and a host of film distribution luminaries.

Night Will Fall(en)

When Allied forces liberated the Nazi concentration camps in 1944-45, their terrible discoveries were recorded by army and newsreel cameramen, revealing for the first time the full horror of what had happened. Making use of British, Soviet and American footage, the Ministry of Information’s Sidney Bernstein (later founder of Granada Television) aimed to create a documentary that would provide lasting, undeniable evidence of the Nazis’ unspeakable crimes. He commissioned a wealth of British talent, including editor Stewart McAllister, writer and future cabinet minister Richard Crossman – and, as treatment advisor, his friend Alfred Hitchcock. Yet, despite initial support from the British and US Governments, the film was shelved, and only now, 70 years on, has it been restored and completed by Imperial War Museums under its original title "German Concentration Camps Factual Survey".

As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty(en)

A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely by chance", without concern for chronological order.

The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends(en)

This documentary focuses on the actors and their journey over two summers to create the remake to the original IT, by Stephen King. The documentary originally released as bonus material, bundled with IT: Chapter Two.

Heart of a Dog(en)

Lyrical and powerfully personal essay film that reflects on the deaths of her husband Lou Reed, her mother, her beloved dog, and such diverse subjects as family memories, surveillance, and Buddhist teachings.

Fuck(en)

A documentary on the expletive's origin, why it offends some people so deeply, and what can be gained from its use.

In the Realms of the Unreal(en)

In the Realms of the Unreal is a documentary about the reclusive Chicago-based artist Henry Darger. Henry Darger was so reclusive that when he died his neighbors were surprised to find a 15,145-page manuscript along with hundreds of paintings depicting The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glodeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Cased by the Child Slave Rebellion.

Casting By(en)

This essential new documentary pays tribute to the legacy of the late, legendary casting director Marion Dougherty and shines a light on one of the most overlooked and least understood crafts in filmmaking.

In Search of the Last Action Heroes(en)

The most comprehensive retrospective of the '80s action film genre ever made.

Naqoyqatsi(en)

A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence.

The Class of ‘92(en)

A detailing of the rise to prominence and global sporting superstardom of six supremely talented young Manchester United football players (David Beckham, Nicky Butt, Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes, Phil and Gary Neville). The film covers the period 1992-1999, culminating in Manchester United's European Cup triumph.

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction(en)

An impressionistic portrait of the iconic actor Harry Dean Stanton comprised of intimate moments, film clips from some of his 250 films and his renditions of American folk songs.

Being James Bond(en)

Daniel Craig candidly reflects on his 15 year adventure as James Bond. Including never-before-seen archival footage from Casino Royale to the upcoming 25th film No Time To Die, Craig shares his personal memories in conversation with 007 producers, Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli.

Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin(en)

Brilliant, long in-the-works story of the life and art of the world's greatest comedian and the cinema's first genius, Charlie Chaplin. Produced, written and directed by renowned film critic Richard Schickel.

Love, Marilyn(en)

Using the book 'Fragments', which collects Marilyn Monroe's poems, notes and letters, and with participation from the Arthur Miller and Truman Capote estates who have contributed more material, each of the actresses will embody the legend at various stages in her life.

To Be Takei(en)

Over seven decades, actor and activist George Takei journeyed from a World War II internment camp to the helm of the Starship Enterprise, and then to the daily news feeds of five million Facebook fans. Join George and his husband, Brad, on a wacky and profound trek for life, liberty, and love.

Anna Nicole Smith: You Don't Know Me(en)

From the heights of her modeling fame to her tragic death, this documentary reveals Anna Nicole Smith through the eyes of the people closest to her.

Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies(en)

The definitive documentary on the history of nudity in feature films from the early silent days to the present, studying the changes in morality that led to the use of nudity in films while emphasizing the political, sociological and artistic changes that shaped that history. Skin will also study the gender inequality in presenting nude images in motion pictures and will follow the revolution that has created nude gender equality in feature films today.