Category III: The Untold Story of Hong Kong Exploitation Cinema

Akasaka sex zone: Gaijin baishun-fu(ja)

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.

That's Roman Porno: Smile of Goddesses(ja)

A documentary compilation that shows various clips from the Roman Porno series of movies from 1971 to 1988.

Double Bed(ja)

Kato is a small time TV producer. He has a wife Masako, and a young son Taro. Kato also has a friend Yamazaki who he knew since college. Yamazaki has a girl friend Riko who lives with her younger sister Yuko who's an actress. Yamazaki is a lyric writer/womanizer and he starts to have an affair with Masako, but he's still going out with Riko.

Concrete-Encased High School Girl Murder Case: Broken Seventeen-Year-Olds(ja)

Based on the infamous "Concrete-encased high school girl murder case" that took place from November 1988 to January 1989 in Japan. Junko Furuta, a female 17 year old high school student, was kidnapped and confined in a house by four other male high school students (all juvenile) in the Ayase district of Adachi-ku, Tokyo, where she was repeatedly raped, sexually humiliated and tortured in an extremely brutish manner for 41 days before she finally died after a particularly severe beating. The boys hid her body in a drum and filled it with concrete, but the body was nonetheless discovered a few months later.

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.

Wife Watching(ja)

Housewife Yoko is paranoid after being attacked by someone.

Big Bad Mama-San: Dekotora 1(ja)

Nami’s father was a legendary truck driver, and after his death, Nami inherited the deco-truck With her up-beat personality and super driving technique, Nami is popular among her customers. By coincidence, Nami meets Momoka, a hooker who takes truck drivers as customers. Momoka says to Nami, “I want to start a new life !!” and begs that she wants to be Nami’s assistant. She is overwhelmed by Momoka’s passion, and decides to take her in. One day, after dinner, the two return to the truck and sees that there is a box which they must have forgotten to load. So they load the box back in the truck, and the odd twosome drive away to the next destination. This “box” is the start of trouble for Nami and Momoka. What lies ahead in their destiny?!

Love Master 3(ja)

Wandering “Saoshi”, Kikunosuke Kagurazaka cures frustrated women with his sexual technique. He comes across a man called Ishida, an owner of an adult entertainment complex in Kabukicho. Ishida controls girls using erotic hypnosis and makes them work as prostitutes. Kikunosuke, who has been looking for missing Rie, finds out that Rie is working under Ishida. Rie is one of the victims under the erotic hypnosis. Kikunosuke challenges Rie in sex battle and successfully brings her to her senses by his sexual technique “Kinuta”. Then he finds out Ishida’s dark past. Kikunosuke beards Ishida who reigns over Kabukicho. One after another, Ishida sends out his girls to put kikunoske under his spell in vain. Kikunosuke wields his technique and leads them all to ecstasy. Who would be the final challenger? Who would be the last man standing, Ishida or Kikunosuke?

Namadashi waka okusama: Shibireru(ja)

Woman of the Rumor: Hold Me Until Morning(ja)

The wife of a wealthy manager returns to her suburban house and is suddenly attacked by an intruder. As she suffers through the aftermath of her ordeal many nasty family secrets will be revealed.

A Map of Love Blooming in the Sky(ja)

The man feels nostalgic when he sees the coastal townscape he hasn't seen in a long time, and when he heads to the beach, his ex is waiting for him. Although he is a model now, he was still in his infancy at the time, and it was thanks to his lover, a government official, that the fire was ignited...but that lover was also demoted and there was no sign of him looking back...

Summer Men's Love Beach(ja)

Bad at sports, Takeshi and Ryo, a gay couple, get together with Akira and Mitsuo, another gay couple, to participate in a beach volleyball tournament all the while Ryo is set to meet a man he met on a dating site. As the tension grows, Takeshi's older sister, Rika, shows up with her lover, Yuichi, who was the captain of the volleyball club in high school.

OL shikijô nikki: Ushiro kara semete(ja)

This is a drama that depicts the muddy human conflict between a man and a woman obsessed with money and sex over a man who consumes public funds, with a powerful touch, and is relevant today..

Danrô towairaito(ja)

Ryuichi, an office worker, gets into a fight with his girlfriend Kota, a bartender, and chases him through the streets. At that moment, he receives a violent impact on his back and collapses. Ryuichi wakes up to Kota's voice. Apparently he came to the lakeside with Kota and fell asleep. However, he only came to this lakeside a year ago when I met him...

Landscape of Love: LOVE at Camp(ja)

Hideaki is a straight college student. He also has a girlfriend named Juri, and she sometimes recalls a young man she met when she was a high school student who aspired to be a painter...

Crossroads of Love(ja)

Shingo dreamed of becoming a news photographer and is now working as an AV cameraman. He lives a life largely driven by his own dreams, and is abandoned by Mio, who was living with him. Afterwards, Shingo sees a job posting for a photographer with an unbelievable salary, goes for an interview, and is immediately hired. The task was to take a private video of Nakajima...

Men's Circle(ja)

Yamazaki, a struggling screenwriter, hears a rumor that a strange group of people are living together in the mountains and engaging in dubious sexual rituals, so he goes to investigate. At a waterfall in the mountains, men were having a heated discussion on the topic, "Was Leonardo da Vinci gay?" They are reportedly holding a training camp here to settle a dispute on the internet. The leader, Verrocchio, is confident in the gay theory, but refutes it himself. Young Machiavelli is repulsed by his ideas. Melzi, a passionate believer in science, is worried about the relationship between the two. There was also Sarai, who advocated the Basho gay theory, and Borgia, who tried to verify it from Freud's theory...

Basketball Triangle(ja)

A certain university basketball club. It's a circle of pick-up guys who do blind dates all the time using basketball as a base. Then a gay old man who is a former member of the Japanese national team comes to coach. All of the students are unmotivated, so he tries to teach them the joy of sports, but he is drawn in by the fact that there are so many good-looking guys, and he starts teaching them the joys of homosexuality...

Symphony of the Breeze(ja)

Chihiro is a hospital surgeon in a hospital headed by his father. He is excellent and has a good reputation, but in secret he is using drugs and hallucinating. One day a new nurse named Wataru is appointed. Chihiro and Wataru get to know each other. One night, Chihiro falls ssleep and has a dream, embracing Wataru in a drug hallucination. From that day on he often follows Wataru, pretending it is a coincidence and participating in Wataru's favorite activity of basketball with him. However, there is another person who has an interest for Wataru. It's Shiomi, a secretary-general. Both Wataru and Shiomi confess to Wataru but Wataru sleeps with Chihiro. Shiomi makes plans to tear Chihiro and Wataru apart.

Love, Antosha(en)

From a prolific career in film and television, Anton Yelchin left an indelible legacy as an actor. Through his journals and other writings, his photography, the original music he wrote, and interviews with his family, friends, and colleagues, this film looks not just at Anton's impressive career, but at a broader portrait of the man.

Citizen Kane(en)

Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.

Raya and the Last Dragon(en)

Long ago, in the fantasy world of Kumandra, humans and dragons lived together in harmony. But when an evil force threatened the land, the dragons sacrificed themselves to save humanity. Now, 500 years later, that same evil has returned and it’s up to a lone warrior, Raya, to track down the legendary last dragon to restore the fractured land and its divided people.

The Hurt Locker(en)

During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work.

Oppenheimer(en)

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.

Dunkirk(en)

The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.

Moonlight(en)

The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.

I Know What You Did Last Summer(en)

After an accident on a winding road, four teens make the fatal mistake of dumping their victim's body into the sea. Exactly one year later, the deadly secret resurfaces as they're stalked by a hook-handed figure.

Lost in Translation(en)

Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.

Vanilla Sky(en)

David Aames has it all: wealth, good looks and gorgeous women on his arm. But just as he begins falling for the warmhearted Sofia, his face is horribly disfigured in a car accident. That's just the beginning of his troubles as the lines between illusion and reality, between life and death, are blurred.

Her(en)

In the not so distant future, Theodore, a lonely writer, purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user's every need. To Theodore's surprise, a romantic relationship develops between him and his operating system. This unconventional love story blends science fiction and romance in a sweet tale that explores the nature of love and the ways that technology isolates and connects us all.

La La Land(en)

Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.

Parasite(ko)

All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.

Guardians of the Galaxy(en)

Light years from Earth, 26 years after being abducted, Peter Quill finds himself the prime target of a manhunt after discovering an orb wanted by Ronan the Accuser.

Finding Dory(en)

Dory is reunited with her friends Nemo and Marlin in the search for answers about her past. What can she remember? Who are her parents? And where did she learn to speak Whale?

Ghostbusters(en)

After losing their academic posts at a prestigious university, a team of parapsychologists goes into business as proton-pack-toting "ghostbusters" who exterminate ghouls, hobgoblins and supernatural pests of all stripes. An ad campaign pays off when a knockout cellist hires the squad to purge her swanky digs of demons that appear to be living in her refrigerator.

Anatomy of a Fall(fr)

A woman is suspected of her husband's murder, and their blind son faces a moral dilemma as the sole witness.

The Batman(en)

In his second year of fighting crime, Batman uncovers corruption in Gotham City that connects to his own family while facing a serial killer known as the Riddler.

Gangs of New York(en)

In 1863, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the psychotic gangland kingpin, Bill the Butcher, who murdered his father years earlier. With an eager pickpocket by his side and a whole new army, Vallon fights his way to seek vengeance on the Butcher and restore peace in the area.

Contagion(en)

As an epidemic of a lethal airborne virus - that kills within days - rapidly grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself.