Oda Kaoru: Kifujin O-jô no etsuraku(1995)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Ritual(ja)

A disillusioned filmmaker has an encounter with a young woman who has a ritual of repeating "Tomorrow is my birthday" everyday. He tries to communicate with her through his video camera.

Female Yakuza Tale(ja)

Ocho is accidentally captured by a drug trafficking cartel who use Chinese women to smuggle drugs into Japan by hiding it in their vaginas. She is tortured, and manages to escape, fighting both the male yakuzas and a gang of female thieves.

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.

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.

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?

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.

Funeral Parade of Roses(ja)

In 1960s Tokyo, Gonda owns a bar in which the gay, cross-dresser, and trans scenes meet. Gonda is in a relationship with the madam of the bar, Leda. As the younger Eddie starts a passionate affair with Gonda, she ignites the jealousy of Leda, unaware of another kind of history between them.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Eel(ja)

A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After his release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking to almost no one except for an eel he befriended while in prison.

Nurse Girl Dorm: Sticky Fingers(ja)

A new head nurse is assigned to an all female hospital dorm and she can’t wait to revel in her new found freedom as a newly divorced woman. Doctors, nurses and boyfriends are now all fair game.

The Pleasures of a Woman(en)

A series of erotic encounters between a young woman and her recently-widowed aunt.

Emmanuelle(en)

While traveling, Emmanuelle meets Kei, a man who constantly eludes her. Though she indulges in the many alluring distractions, she can’t shake their chance encounter. Will she submit to her basest desires to forge a deeper relationship?

Mischief(tl)

Sex and rumors abound in this erotic story about high school student Jules, who won’t stop at anything to get back best friend Dahlia from new student Nessa, even if it means making up stories of illicit affairs with teachers.

Undergrads(tl)

Two young women navigate the trials of growing up as they confront their awakening desires. Their journey explores the complexities of sexuality and the profound impact it has on their lives and identities.

Sister Rice Bowl: Sister-in-law Hunting(ko)

Tired of married life, the husband turns to his brother-in-law family who is staying at home an a long business trip. The husband, who only washed his fingers for no reason, attracts Casanova to encourage his brother-in-law's affair. In addition, he planned to lay down his brother-in-law's house as bait, but as things went wrong, his wife fell into Casanova's hands. The husband can't let go of his anger. When he confessed that to his sister-in-law and threatened to divorce, she said she would do anything for her good sister. The husband, who suddenly got a double income, slowly zips down, hiding his joy.

Capturing: Dirty Foreplay(ja)

Sho is a loner who works at a small factory. He has no friends, hardly associates with his work-mates and is regarded as a weirdo because of his love for gun models. One day he buys a real gun from a local yakuza. This boosts his self-confidence and he overcomes his insecurities and presents a bouquet of flowers to Eiko, who lives in a classy apartment and with whom he had fallen in love.

Young Wife: Modest Indecency(ja)

Shinji, who has been writing a screenplay that is not going to be made into a movie, has a girlfriend who is a model. One day Shinji receives a call from the husband of his old lover Yoko, and goes to see her. When he meets Yoko again after five years, he cannot resist embracing her. A sensual film of love and jealousy, directed by and starring Kazuhiro Sano.

Shûchishin(ja)

While waiting for her husband to return from a business trip a bored housewife excites herself by watching naughty videos...

Nymphomaniac: Vol. I(en)

A man named Seligman finds a fainted wounded woman in an alley and he brings her home. She tells him that her name is Joe and that she is nymphomaniac. Joe tells her life and sexual experiences with hundreds of men since she was a young teenager while Seligman tells about his hobbies, such as fly fishing, reading about Fibonacci numbers or listening to organ music.

Soaking Wet: Touching All Over the Body(ja)

Kunio had his first sexual encounter with Yoko in a hotel. Since then, he couldn't forget her and called the magazine company where she worked many times, but he couldn't get in touch with her. She was holed up in a hotel because Tamai, a writer, was behind on his manuscript. They finally arranged to meet and waited at a cafe bar in Kabukicho, Shinjuku, but Kabukicho held many bitter memories for him. A few years ago, he was unable to do anything while Yumiko, whom he had liked at the time, was being violated in front of him...

Dangerous Affairs(it)

The young scion of a rich lineage should get married and give an heir to the family. But no one wants to touch his girlfriend before marriage and instead consoled with the beautiful waitress. But things get complicated and suddenly strange deaths begin to hit the family members.

Abnormal Ecstasy(ja)

The film follows a struggling screenwriter who, while researching a porn film, becomes involved with a trans woman hostess.

Fast Lane to Malibu(en)

The film follows randy college boys Zack and Brian on a trip to Malibu for a party where there's a shortage of boys but a bevy of buxom girls. Beset on the way by car trouble, and various other distractions, the film also follows the journey of Zack and Brian's girlfriends, who follow the boys to Malibu but end up having their own lusty adventures.

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...

Mibôjin geshuku: Hatsunori(ja)

Striptease(en)

Bounced from her job, Erin Grant needs money if she's to have any chance of winning back custody of her child. But, eventually, she must confront the naked truth: to take on the system, she'll have to take it all off. Erin strips to conquer, but she faces unintended circumstances when a hound dog of a Congressman zeroes in on her and sharpens the shady tools at his fingertips, including blackmail and murder.

Blue Sky(ja)

A road movie about three persons traveling in a campervan on their way to Tokyo, Hamamatsu, and Kyoto. The film is based on the story of the heroine, a young girl named Momo, who was a member of the "21 Faces of Kaijin" gang involved in the Glico Morinaga Incident, and the film's ideas are remarkable, including the use of a tape recording of the actual incident.

Favorite Concubine(ko)

Jun-soo, a rich old man, decides to live in a local villa after retirement due to paralysis and health reasons. Only Jun-soo's wife, Hye-sook, and Joo-seok, will move to the provinces, and Hye-sook will only wait for the day Jun-soo dies. Jun-soo gradually becomes paralyzed, so he relies on a wheelchair, and Hye-sook meets up Joo-seok. However, Jun-soo suffered from paralysis that night. Unaware of this, Hye-sook and Joo-seok hire Jun-soo's caregiver to avoid Jun-soo and enjoy comfortably, but Joo-seok begins to look at the caregiver. After learning about the affair between Hye-sook and Joo-seok, Jun-soo begins to make a secret proposal to So-eun.

Lover Sharing(ko)

The story of a 10-year-old married couple who live their normal daily lives when one day, the loving husband went to work and the wife finds a bill while cleaning up the house. It's an officetel management notice. The wife suddenly gets suspicious and goes to the officetel. When she checked the address and ring the bell, the wife felt betrayed when she heard the voice of an unknown woman from the intercom and her husband's voice coming from afar.