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Kōji Wakamatsu

Kōji Wakamatsu

Kōji Wakamatsu (若松孝二 Wakamatsu Kōji, 1 April 1936 – 17 October 2012) was a Japanese film director who direct the such pink treat ei emulate films as Ecstasy of the Angels (天使の恍惚 again never no Kōkotsu, 1972) and Go, Go, Second Time Virgin (ゆけゆけ二度目の処女 wobble death wobble her nido say no sho said, 1969). He also produce nag shake ōshima's controversial film In the Realm of the Senses (1976). He has been called "the most important director to emerge in the pink film genre," and one of "japan's leading directors of the 1960s."

His 2010 film, Caterpillar, was music for the Golden Bear at the 60'th Berlin International Film Festival.

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Movies Made By Kōji Wakamatsu (105)

The Millennial Rapture (2012)

Sennen no yuraku is set in a small community called "Roji" where Kenji Nakagami—one of the most famous novelists in Japan—drew the absurdity and passion of life since its inhabitants have been living and dying. There were beautiful men in "Roji" who st ...

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11.25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate (2012)

On November 25th 1970, a man committed ritual suicide inside the Tokyo headquarters of the Japanese Ministry of Defence, leaving behind a legacy of masterpieces and a controversy that echoes to this day. The man was Yukio Mishima, one of Japan's greatest a ...

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Petrel Hotel Blue (2012)

Seeking to exact revenge upon Yoji, Yukio travels to an area surrounded by the sea, desert and lava topped mountains. There, Yukio meets mysterious Rika and becomes enchanted by her presence. While, Yukio can't get Rika out of his mind, he faces off agains ...

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Embryo (2010)

A young man named Carlos with a sexual trauma kidnaps a girl that works with him. During the kidnapping the sexual tension and the violence will make the two of them change their point views on life and politics. ...

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Caterpillar (2010)

The story of a village woman given the grueling task of looking after (and fulfilling the sexual needs of) her quadruple amputee husband, a Japanese soldier in the Second Sino-Japanese War who has been decreed a "War God" by the Emperor. ...

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United Red Army (2007)

Two of the most radical student groups form the United Red Army (URA) and head into the mountains to conduct a training camp. Ideology devolves into despotism, and the URA's leaders begin to arbitrarily persecute their followers, a harrowing ordeal that cu ...

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Cycling Chronicles: Landscapes the Boy Saw (2004)

A Japanese teenager bicycles aimlessly through the countryside after killing his mother. ...

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Perfect Education 6 (2004)

Fumiya owes 5 million yen to a female load shark for a gambling debt, while having affair an with Mrs. Hosoi who offers him 5 million to murder her husband. Fumiya has no choice but to kill Mr. Hosoi. Unfortunately he's see by a neighbor. In the escape, he ...

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Prime Minister's Office Lady (2001)

A woman, disguised as an office lady, takes revenge for her dead lover. ...

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Heaven and Hell (1999)

A bus full of cult members gets stuck in snow. The cult has to stay in a mountain hotel. Strange things start to happen... ...

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Target (1996)

A business man visits his hometown to search for a missing employee ...

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Endless Waltz (1995)

Biopic about jazz saxophonist Kaoru Abe and his wife, noted writer Izumi Suzuki. ...

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Singapore Sling (1993)

Tatsuya is on a honeymoon in Australia. A couple of unfortunate encounters land him in jail, where he's imprisoned without a chance of ever getting out again. His wife tries her best to launch an appeal, but it's Tatsuya's inmates who are his best chance o ...

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Erotic Liaisons (1992)

A low-key private detective agency in Paris is run by Rie and her partner Kishin, two ex-pats who tick along between cases by giving guided tours of the city to busloads of Japanese tourists. ...

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Sosuke Loses His Lover (1992)

Koji Wakamatsu adapted Kouhei Tsuka's play of the same name into a human comedy about the members of a traveling acting troupe. ...

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Ready to Shoot (1990)

A middle-aged man discovers an injured refugee woman trembling in the corner of his bar in Kabukicho. He quickly becomes aware that her life is in his hands when he learns she is hiding from the yakuza. ...

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Eternal Savannah: Roses' Tails (1990)

A compilation of music videos for the singer Hayase Yukako. ...

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Hole in the Pants 4: Strawberries That Aren't Mushy (1990)

In this omnibus movie of four stories about teenagers there is a boy who lives next to a university women's dormitory and he checks them out constantly. He finds out about their relationship with men. He decides to forget about them and decides to date a c ...

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It's Easier Than Kissing (1989)

After the death of her mother a young woman wants to meet her real father ...

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Impactual Performance (1986)

A female teacher falls in love with her student ...

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Scrap: A Love Story (1984)

The film depicts the strange live-in lifestyle of three people: Yasuko, a 14-year-old girl who insists that all things are equal and sex is no exception, Boku, a university student, and Ryosuke, a photographer for Binimoto. M, a girl who was popular for he ...

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The Woman with the Red Hat (1982)

In 1923 a Japanese comes to Munich and immediately falls in love with a street artist with a red hat, without knowing her past is. She turns to the Japanese, for the first time she thinks she has found her really great love- exotic stranger attracts her. T ...

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A Pool Without Water (1982)

After saving a girl from rape, a bored rail worker finds out about a chemical that makes people sleep and gets carried away into a new, violent world of ideas. ...

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Seishojo gomon (1980)

Pinku from 1980. ...

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Gendai sei hanzai: Zenin satsugai (1979)

A girl that lost her life after being gang-raped by gang members revives as a ghost wearing a fox mask in white clothes, and while chanting mysterious words, she kills all of the men that raped her with a Japanese sword. ...

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Prey (1979)

A rock singer who has returned to the U.S. approaches his former musician friends with the soulful sound of reggae that he encountered during his stay in the U.S. However, his friends lost their old energy and were busy chasing only the songs that would s ...

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Serial Rapist (1978)

A chubby, bicycle-riding rapist/killer dispatches 13 people in a cold, bloody, detached rampage. ...

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Oppressive Torture (1978)

In the end of the 19th century, social restoration occurred in Japan. Seizing on the confusion, Gonnosuke deprives land from farmers, and this pushes him way to the top as a businessman. However, he has hideous sexual propensity which he sexually abuses wo ...

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Torture Chronicles Continues: 100 Years (1977)

A sequel to Torture Chronicles: 100 Years of Torture Inquisition. ...

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Eros Eterna (1977)

A woman believing to be a legendary immortal nun attracts people looking for answers to their life struggles. ...

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In the Realm of the Senses (1976)

A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual relationship. ...

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100 Years of Torture: The History (1975)

The movie takes place in four periods: the first, a group of female Christians are raped and crucified in 18th century Japan. The second deals with a man who beats his cheating wife and her lover. The third, is set in WW2 where inquisition soldiers torture ...

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Shinjuku Maria (1975)

A story about a female reporter investigating sex workers in Shinjuku. ...

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A.K.A. Serial Killer (1975)

AKA Serial Killer documents the social upheaval and political oppression that roiled Japan in the 1960s, profiling a nineteen-year-old serial killer Norio Nagayama. An indictment of media sensationalism, the film humanizes the young man by situating his cr ...

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Wet Dice (1974)

Kayo, who is famous for her beauty, own a bar in a port town. The establishment is always crowded with customers infatuated with her. For the past three years, Kayo has been in a relationship with Murakami, a city councilman. One day, a young man and woman ...

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Off-Season Flowering (1973)

Debut film from manga artist Seiichi Hayashi. A boy and a girl from the same hometown reunite in the big city and sleep together one night. But, the girl reveals the following day that she is engaged to someone else... ...

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Secret High School Girl: After School Activity (1973)

A banker and a high school girl start a brothel in the snowy countryside of Hokuriko. ...

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Backside of 17 (1972)

Pinku from 1972. ...

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Ecstasy of the Angels (1972)

A militant revolutionary group is torn apart by betrayal as its members descend into paranoia and sexual decadence. ...

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Sex Family (1971)

A critique of the Japanese family, seen here as militaristic, absurdly incestuous and patriarchal with the father dominating his family sexually and violently. Nihilistic destruction by the young ones seems to be the only way out. ...

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Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War (1971)

On their way back from the Cannes Film Festival in 1971, filmmakers Wakamatsu Koji and Adachi Masao visited Lebanon to meet Japan's Red Army faction and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine to shoot a newsreel film promoting the Palestinian re ...

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The Woman Who Wanted to Die (1971)

Mishima has just committed suicide. Two couples meet by accident at an inn in the countryside, the man and the woman, now, each with a new partner, who knew each other already for ten years... ...

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Secret Flower (1971)

A woman who has just missed her suicide and a couple which has just left its political movement meet on a beach... ...

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The Hateful Beast (1970)

In the Edo era, two man arrive in a village and engage in criminal activity. While one of them becomes successful and rich, the other gets betrayed and ends up in prison, burning for revenge. The truth changes with the viewpoint in this Wakamatsu film, whi ...

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Sex Jack (1970)

A small gang of revolutionary students is hidden away by a small-time thief. While they are in hiding, everyone except the thief takes turns engaging in sexual activities with a girl who appears unhappy and perhaps unwilling, having had the misfortune of g ...

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High Noon Rape (1970)

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Love Technique: Kamasutra (1970)

First Half: Kamasutra in three dimensions. Second Half: Report-movie-like short story. ...

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Shinjuku Mad (1970)

A salesman is looking in the city of Tokyo for his lost son. But he becomes increasingly angry at the young and radical hippies, who are not the least helpful. ...

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Violence Without a Cause (1969)

Three violent and disillusioned students share an apartment. Their search for a place in society is through porn, fights, rape, and voyeurism. Not even leftist, militant student organizations are able to channel their youthful frustration. ...

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Season of Terror (1969)

From an apartment belonging to a single woman, two detectives spy on sex-obsessed radical. ...

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Naked Bullet (1969)

A girl becomes a pawn in the game between two rival gangs gangster. ...

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Female Student Guerrilla (1969)

Three high school girls about to take their final exam, secretly plan to ruin the diploma ceremony in order to avenge themselves of that school which treated them as delinquents. Two classmates who discovered their plan decide to join the rebellion. They s ...

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Running in Madness, Dying in Love (1969)

During clashes between demonstrators and police that rage on the streets of Tokyo, a young man hides in the house of his brother - a police officer. The latter is accidentally shot by his wife, which forces the young man to flee with her. ...

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Dark Story of a Sex Crime: Phantom Killer (1969)

The film follows a frustrated young man who yearns to be in the company of women. If at first he seems unable to make any kind of meaningful connection with them, he awakens dark feelings that will drive him to commit violent crimes after his first sexual ...

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New Jack & Betty (1969)

The lustful desires of a bourgeois family for a "meeting". ...

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Violent Virgin (1969)

A bunch of young hipsters kidnaps a loving couple and keeps them trapped in a barren landscape. To the sounds of free jazz they are performing various experiments with the couple. In the distance is a yakuza gang keeping track of the youths. Who are really ...

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Sexual Play (1969)

A masterpiece of militant cinema of 1968, filmed on the actual barricades of Adachi's very own Nihon University during the period of social struggles. The film begins in a lengthy free-love session taking the form of a 'play' rape being enacted by a group ...

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New Underground History of Japanese Violence: Vengeance Demon (1969)

A brother and sister live as outcasts from their hamlet due to a belief that mental illness runs in their family. A group of villagers plot to steal their property by beating and hanging the brother and gang-raping the sister. Believing the brother to be d ...

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Go, Go Second Time Virgin (1969)

Go, Go, Second Time Virgin is the story of two damned and abused teenagers who meet and fall in mutant love on a Tokyo rooftop. Their only hope is to cement their love with an escape into oblivion. ...

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The Notorious Concubines (1968)

Based on the Chinese classic "Jin Ping Mei". Original Japanese cut directed by Koji Wakamatsu and produced by Shochiku. Set in Song-dynasty China, Wu Song rises to fame and becomes a guard captain. He is captivated by his brother's wife, Pan Jinlian, whose ...

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Sex Zone (1968)

Inspired by the true story of a Geisha murdered in a city famous for its baths, Adachi forged here his favorite style, a kind of conceptual documentary recounting the incident in monotone. The same event that at the beginning of Violated Angels escaped eve ...

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The Pistol That Sprouted Hair (1968)

Shirō raids the office of the organization that attacked his lover, wreaking havoc and escaping with a stolen handgun. In retaliation, the organization hires two killers to get rid of Shirō. The duo begin to develop a strange kinship with their target... ...

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A Womb to Let (1968)

A wife with a fertility problem wants to use her sister's womb to have children, but her sister is enjoying her boyfriend and sexual freedom. The husband is a commanding chauvinist and this soon turns out to be an investigation into authority, patriarchy a ...

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Sex Crimes (1968)

Young slacker couple accidentially kills a friend. They burn his body and hang out on a beach. ...

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Vagabond of Sex (1967)

A man leaves his family in Tokyo to travel and engage in various sexual escapades. When he returns home he finds out that his wife is starring in Imamura's documentary about her search for her missing husband. ...

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Abnormal Blood (1967)

A detective investigating a serial rapist discovers that he and the perpetrator come from the same lineage of depraved individuals, a genealogy of violent and sexually perverse deviants that stretches through the Meiji, Taisho and Showa eras and can even b ...

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Violence in the Net (1967)

A violently erotic drama taking place in a fishing village. ...

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Violated Angels (1967)

Based on the factual case of a young man who broke into a nurses' home in Chicago, mutilating and killing several of the inmates, Wakamatsu's film is a precise, sad delineation of a particular aspect of masculine sexual consciousness. ...

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Birth Control Revolution (1967)

The insane gynecologist, Dr. Marukido Sadao (Marquis de Sade), theorizes that a woman is unable to become pregnant if she is writhing in intense pain during intercourse. He sets about testing this new method of birth control by torturing women during sex. ...

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The Orgy (1967)

A hitman focuses on his job hoping to retire quickly and richly. But the betrayal of his clan and those he loves endangers his plan. ...

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Sei no fukkatsu (1967)

Pink Film from Wakamatsu Production. ...

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Season of Betrayal (1966)

A press photographer returns to Japan from the war in Vietnam after losing his friend and fellow photographer on the battlefield. ...

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Abortion (1966)

A gynecologist attempts to rid the world of sexual problems by separating sex on the one hand and reproduction, which he feels should be left to artificial wombs. ...

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The Embryo Hunts in Secret (1966)

A man keeps his girlfriend tied up in his small apartment and tortures her. She is undressed, subjected to various types of bondage, whipped, and tortured with a razor blade. ...

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The Love Robots (1966)

In this bizarre world of distorted human pleasures, we have come to accept the most heinous crimes against mankind as just another example of the degeneration of our species. Even the most jaded individual could not forgive the creators of the Love Robots. ...

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Blood Is Redder Than the Sun (1966)

A high school student preparing for his university entrance exams is discontent with various social inequities and is determined to take vengeance on all adults. According to the press information accompanying a 2005 retrospective of Kōji Wakamatsu's fil ...

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Perverse Relations (1965)

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. ...

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Secrets Behind the Wall (1965)

In a housing complex, a college prep student is spying on his neighbor, a former peace activist, who now leads an ordinary life as a housewife, having a secret affair with an ex-lover. ...

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Resume of Love Affairs (1965)

A young girl from a small parochial country village is raped and ravaged at the hands of local roughnecks, escapes to a new life in the big city of Tokyo, and finds a pretty similar fate awaiting her there. ...

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Blood of Lust Is Dripping (1965)

A man who was once a student activist marries the daughter of the head of a big trust company. He uses his position as an elite salaryman to do whatever he pleases. However, a shadow from his past starts to creep into his life... ...

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Naked Shadow (1964)

A drama depicting a girl's suffering from prenatal radiation damage caused by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. ...

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Frenzy (1964)

To save her husband and child from drowning a woman seeks help in a village nearby. ...

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Lead Tombstone (1964)

LEAD TOMBSTONE tracks the progress of a young sociopathic rake who had, immediately post-WW2, rescued his country farmer mother from rape by stabbing the offending American soldier in the back with a pitchfork. Once grown, the boy continues his violent lif ...

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Red Crime (1964)

Pinku directed by Kôji Wakamatsu. ...

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Mesuinu no Kake (1964)

Probable Pink movie from Koji Wakamatsu. ...

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Oiroke sakusen (1963)

Part of a double feature Playboy / Playgirl ...

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Savage Women (1963)

Second Pink film by Wakamatsu ...

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Sweet Trap (1963)

An office worker who dreams of a peaceful happiness with her boyfriend is forced into prostitution by yakuza. ...

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Movies Starring Kōji Wakamatsu (17)

The Man Who Went Beyond Manga: Fujio Akatsuka (2016)

The late Fujio Akatsuka is revered by many Japanese artists and scholars for his developments to early comedy manga, but his contributions aren't just limited to the world of print media. Featuring commentary from family, friends, colleagues, and celebrity ...

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Pure Asia (2011)

A young man is unable to save a young woman from being assaulted, despite her having helped him out of a difficult situation in the past. Wracked with regret, he decides to provide assistance to her younger twin sister who is plotting revenge against socie ...

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Pinku Eiga: Inside the Pleasure Dome of Japanese Erotic Cinema (2011)

Documentary on one of the most famous branches of Japanese filmmaking, the erotic Pink film genre, known as Pinku Eiga, and the closely related Roman Porno cult films series produced by notorious Nikkatsu studios from 1971 to 1988. ...

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Prisoner/Terrorist (2007)

During a militant attack on an airport, the hand grenade of 'M', one of three terrorists, malfunctions, leading to him being captured and held indefinitely in prison. Exposed to mistreatment behind bars, he slowly loses his grip on reality as he is forced ...

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What's a Director? (2006)

Works commemorating the 70th anniversary of the founding of Japan mapping Supervision Association ...

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Green Mind, Metal Bats (2006)

The film follows Nanba, a shunned outcast who doesn't have a girlfriend, any money or prospects, a turnaround from his glory days in high school when he played on the baseball team; his former teammate Ishioka, who is now a policeman because of an elbow in ...

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Pink Ribbon (2004)

Documentary filmmaker Kenjiro Fujii takes a look at the history of a distinctly Japanese brand of softcore pornography in this extensive examination of the "pinku eiga" genre (ピンク映画 Pinku eiga or Pinkeiga). For more than 40 years, so-called "pink ...

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Incessant Hell: The Vile Road of Finance (2003)

Kiryu Mamoru, a subordinate boss of the Tomogashira Group, earns a living through the shady business of "yamikin" or underground lending. He preys on desperate customers who cannot get loans from legitimate lenders, charging exorbitant interest rates of 30 ...

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In the Realm of the Senses: Recalling the Film (2003)

Documentary about the making of Nagisa Oshima's 1976 film. ...

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Under the Skin (2002)

A documentary on sixties counterculture in Japan featuring Donald Richie, Tadanori Yokoo, Masao Adachi, Koji Wakamatsu, Toshio Matsumoto and Akaji Maro among others. ...

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Wind (1998)

A girl living with her grandma in the countryside has a strange dream. When she goes to school the next day, she finds out everybody else had the same dream. ...

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The Mystery of Rampo (1994)

Edogawa Rampo is a writer whose latest work is censored by the government, deemed too disturbing and injurious to the public to be allowed to be published. However, after burning his drafts, his publisher shows him a newspaper with an account of events jus ...

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Shinjuku Maria (1975)

A story about a female reporter investigating sex workers in Shinjuku. ...

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Wet Dice (1974)

Kayo, who is famous for her beauty, own a bar in a port town. The establishment is always crowded with customers infatuated with her. For the past three years, Kayo has been in a relationship with Murakami, a city councilman. One day, a young man and woman ...

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Running in Madness, Dying in Love (1969)

During clashes between demonstrators and police that rage on the streets of Tokyo, a young man hides in the house of his brother - a police officer. The latter is accidentally shot by his wife, which forces the young man to flee with her. ...

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Birth Control Revolution (1967)

The insane gynecologist, Dr. Marukido Sadao (Marquis de Sade), theorizes that a woman is unable to become pregnant if she is writhing in intense pain during intercourse. He sets about testing this new method of birth control by torturing women during sex. ...

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Blood of Lust Is Dripping (1965)

A man who was once a student activist marries the daughter of the head of a big trust company. He uses his position as an elite salaryman to do whatever he pleases. However, a shadow from his past starts to creep into his life... ...

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