Director Daisuke Goto, the master of the cinematic Pink Eiga, is back with this retelling of the classic film noir, The Postman Always Rings Twice. A married woman, tasked with running her handicapped husband’s failing printing business, meets a drifter and they fall in love. Soon a plan to murder the husband is put into motion and the forces of fate begin to show their hand. Featuring bravura filmmaking, fantastic performances and steamy sex, the Mourning Wife is a worthy follow up for any fan of Daisuke Goto’s masterpiece A Lonely Cow Weeps at Dawn.
Mamoru Tachibana
Kyôko Yano
Akira
Patient on Crutches
Nurse/Kaori
Hiroyuki
Director Daisuke Goto, the master of the cinematic Pink Eiga, is back with this retelling of the classic film noir, The Postman Always Rings Twice. A married woman, tasked with running her handicapped husband’s failing printing business, meets a drifter and they fall in love. Soon a plan to murder the husband is put into motion and the forces of fate begin to show their hand. Featuring bravura filmmaking, fantastic performances and steamy sex, the Mourning Wife is a worthy follow up for any fan of Daisuke Goto’s masterpiece A Lonely Cow Weeps at Dawn.
2001-09-28
3.667
Nurse Rio starts working as a dispatch nurse with her colleagues Wakaba and Midori...
Chunauti is an action-packed romantic comedy that tells a story of love, struggle, and justice. Ajaya and his wife Prabha move to Kathmandu, where Ajaya starts working as a teacher. Later, his sister Gita joins them and enrolls in the same college. There, she meets a kind and charming student, but trouble arises when Madhav, a troublesome student, also starts liking her. One day, a fight breaks out in the college, and when Gita tries to stop it, an inspector arrives and brings the situation under control. Angered by this, Madhav and his group cause harm to Prabha and Gita. They also try to escape punishment through legal means. With no strong evidence, Ajaya takes a stand and challenges the court. In the end, he decides to take justice into his own hands, leading to a tragic ending where the inspector, fulfilling his duty, stops Ajaya. Chunauti is a story of love, courage, and sacrifice in the face of injustice.
Mulford sends Ed Harley to manage Radigan's rundown ranch. He makes a success of it but when called to return, he asks Radigan for a loan. Radigan says he can have the loan but not his daughter, but Ed wants both.
Rita still cleans Almuth's house and the two ladies occasionally have tea together - they have actually become pretty good friends. When Rita's husband Werner suddenly passes away, Almuth has to help her. This is not easy for her and she is also struggling with her own problems. Klaus expects Almuth to finally make a decision about their relationship and then her daughter Kathrin moves in with her after separating from her husband. When Rita then interferes in Almuth's life, the women really start to quarrel. The cleaning lady has little understanding for Frau Doktor's throwaway mentality. In the end, Rita terminates Almuth's extraordinary friendship. Can the two opposing women find their way back to each other?
On New Year's Day 1716, Munenaga of Owari and Yoshinao of Kii were both named as candidates for the title of 8th Shogun. The wise and just Munenaga is plunged into a dispute with Tokugawa Yoshinao that will lead to one of them ascending the throne. This is an exciting and informative film that brings the brilliant history of Japan to the surface in a new light.
Emma's parents are going to divorce, but before that the family goes on holiday to the countryside. Emma is left alone when the parents just arguing and moving to another room. Soon she discovers that there is something mysterious about the room when a typewriter starts writing a message by itself...
A young girl, Okimi, falls in love with Kiritaro, a handsome thief disguised as a wealthy young master.
In a journey that mixes cinematic genres, a legendary arcade video gamer moves seamlessly through actual and virtual space and time. While he cherishes the intense experiences of mastering a renowned video game, or defeating an archrival, he comes to question the significance of his legacy and the tradition itself.
A BAFTA Special Award winning feature about a family excited at the news of the return of their daughter.
Geeta and her parents move to a small town of Hari Nagar where her dad has been appointed Principal of a school. During her very first day, Geeta finds out that her video gaming device has been stolen. After complaining to her school teacher, who ends up searching every student's bags, finds the device in Shyam's schoolbag. Shyam is humiliated and punished. Then another student, Satish Kumar, the son of Member of Legislative Assembly, Makhan Lal Akela, finds that his gold chain is missing. They automatically suspect Shyam, and along with local goons and Police go to his residence to search for Shyam and the missing chain. Shyam's uncle and cruel aunt vehemently deny any theft, but no one believes them, they end up searching the house, find Shyam and chase him into the lighthouse, where he hides. Shyam does not know that this lighthouse is the very venue of a spirit of a dreaded pirate that has been lying dormant for 100 years, and is now ready to wake and wreak havoc all round again.
The Bikini Bandits are sent to hell after their car goes off a cliff.
Moises is a mature homosexual, which is having an affair by correspondence with Hilario, a recently widowed man who lives in Valencia. They decide to meet in Madrid and live together. But the chosen day is 23 February, the one in which Lieutenant Colonel Tejero attempts a coup d'etat.
As a little girl is daydreaming out the window, her wicked father comes home. It's Christmas Eve. She tells her father that she was thinking about her Grandmother and of how nice Christmas was when she was alive. The father, angry and bitter, tells the girl that she must be out early to sell the matches or she can think about a beating. He tells her she needs to keep her mind on selling the matches and that she cannot come home until every one of them is sold. Then he laments about how, since her momma died, she is more than pain and trouble and is always in the way.
Not just another documentary on the French resistance movement, this film focuses on one particular group of underground fighters in France: those from Eastern Europe. Many were Jews and all had fled their native countries before the war broke out. They were among the most staunch and fearless enemies of fascism, as shown here in personal interviews and memoirs of war-time experiences. But the most famous of these immigrants were 23 who were rounded up among several hundred Parisians in 1943, tried for their activities, and executed -- all were immigrants under the leadership of the Armenian poet Manouchian. After their execution, Paris was papered with posters decrying these 23 martyrs as "foreign communists."
Minemura, who works in the obstetrics and gynecology department of the hospital, was unable to have an abortion, and she was fired. She leaves the hospital and opens a hidden obstetric and gynecological practice on a remote street. This place became a place for women who wanted to get medical help, secretly. One day, when Minemura finds out that the woman who came to him is a virgin, he feels lustful and eventually rapes her.
A doctor, gynecologist, discover the corpse of his wife. His nurse advises to him to declare her death a simple heart attack, to clear himself without the slightest doubt. He refuses and calls the police force there. The interrogation of the doctor, then other witnesses, slowly reveals the truth of her demise…
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.
It's called the House of Evils, where beasts in human flesh prowl the corridors and the most dangerous residents aren't the luscious inmates, but the predatory guards. For the crime of assaulting her lover, Saya Mizushima has been sentenced to three years in the most brutal prison facility in Japan. It wasn't supposed to be a life sentence, but unless the woman now known as Inmate 611 can learn how to hold her own against both the ruthlessness of her fellow inmates and the brutal harassment of the guards, she's got little chance of walking out with both mind and body intact. Stripped, shackled, but not yet broken, an international chain gang of red hot models and actresses lead by Akira Kiuchi, Harumi Nemoto , Youko Kamon, Yoshimi Asada and Kei Mizutani prepare to march into the flames of the damned in HELLHOLE: INMATE 611!
A man plays the bondage show with his wife, has lung disease, in the end of the 19th century. After his wife dies, an ex-military police guy helps him to get stable life without bondage shows. One day, he meets a woman who closely resembles his ex-wife and she wants to be tied by rope for her husband, who is an artist and near to death, to paint. The woman desperately asks the man to tied her up by rope...
THREE SLAVE WOMEN is comprised of three stories of three women, who share the same slave master. Starring the sexy up-and-coming starlet ASAMI, this film includes some of the best shibari, kinbaku and slave-master scenes ever produced in Japan. All three are in love with Kajiwara, a dominant bondage master who punishes them in intricate and graphic ways. Their separate stories cross paths at a surprising culmination of eroticism, lust and S&M play.
Takashima is a young struggling actor who wants to be a film director. The film follows his chance encounters and career highlights (and lowlights!) as he strives to reach the top, and details his attempt to create the perfect film.
Yuji is an engaged businessman, who decides to grope Asuka, a pretty young girl, on a busy Tokyo commuter train. The cheap thrill turns expensive as Yuji discovers she took this opportunity to steal his wallet. Later on, Asuka finds Yuji and approaches him with an indecent partnership proposal. This film is another quality installment from the Chikan Densha Groper Train series – the longest running film series in the world. (Over 500 Groper Train films have been made!)
The legendary Nogaike, where couples who have vowed to love each other are sure to be united forever. There, Shinji meets a beautiful guy named Junnosuke. Shinji becomes crazy about the mysterious Junnosuke. But Shinji already has a lover named Takashi. Takashi notices the situation and decides to look into Junnosuke, he found a surprising fact. Apparently Junnosuke is a spirit who had some regrets in the world and was unable to attain Buddhahood. This is because him and his lover were forced to seperate during his lifetime in the Meiji era. And that lover was Shinji's grandfather. Takashi wants to get rid of the ghost.
Tamie’s husband Shuhei is a famous novelist. However he mysteriously disappeared after WWII. One day, his old friend Mikuni shows up to Tamie’s house. He accuses Tamie of killing him. Mikuni shows her proof, in the form of a letter the novelist wrote before he disappeared. However, the truth is much more twisted than he could imagine... This period film, set in post-WWII Japan, is truly one of the more bizarre and twisted Pink Films you'll ever see.
After the death of their father, a older brother and his younger sister return to their family home on a secluded island. They are accompanied by the brother's girlfriend. Problems arise when one sibling begins to exhibit carnal desires for the other.
Aya, an erotic writer, lives with her boyfriend, Hajime, a company employee. Recently, they have been a little bit growing apart, and she feels somewhat unfulfilled. One day, Aya learns that the magazine to which she contributes will suddenly cease publication. That night, she is invited out for a drink by Tanaka, an editor whom she respects, and drinks deeply, losing consciousness. When she wakes up, she finds Tanaka in another room making intense love to a mysterious woman, Maria.
Sumire has been working at “Snack Akemi” for the past three years. After returning home from shopping, the owner, Goro, entrusted her with the preparations for opening the bar, and he lay down on a box seat and puffed on a cigarette. Three years ago, Sumire, who had been selling her body to make ends meet, was found huddled on the street with blood all over her face after she was caught trying to skim off a customer’s money. She was saved by Goro, who was passing by at the time.
After five years a tough former prostitute is released from prison and returns to the yakuza that sent her there. It is a cruel and pitiless world and she just wants to survive.
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.
After having dropped out of school and given birth at age 16, Mako has little choice but to move in with the baby's deadbeat father. Struggling to make ends meet by working at a bar and in constant conflict with her conservative parents, Mako has to find her way in a harsh world.
The story of a popular singer who finds love, the journalist who exposes him, the hysterical reactions of his Christian parents, his fear that he has caught AIDS and his supportive gay friends. The film is a strong indictment of the negative effect Christianity has had on Japanese society.
The film tells the story of Aiko, a 35-year-old mute woman who works in a bowling alley, and her brief romance with Yoshioka, a younger man who works as a postal carrier. The two meet when Aiko accidentally knocks Yoshioka off his bicycle, and they have a sexual encounter soon after. Aiko begins preparing lunchboxes and giving them to Yoshioka at his workplace as a way of expressing affection, which she cannot do verbally.
Chikan densha: Yume yubi de shiri meguri (痴漢電車 夢指で尻めぐり) is a 2010 Pink film directed by Yoshikazu Katō and starring Kaho Kasumi. It was named Fourth Best Film of the year at the Pink Taishō ceremony and Atsushi Tsuda was given an award for Best Actor. Kōsuke Komatsu was given the award for Best Screenplay, though the screenwriter is credited as Tsutomu Kondō.
The amorous adventures of three shellfish divers who live and work in a rural fishing village.