Kurage hime (2014)

Actors: Hiromi Hasegawa (actor), Mokomichi Hayami (actor), Sei Hiraizumi (actor), Tomoya Nakamura (actor), Masaki Suda (actor), Kenta Uchino (actor), Azusa Babazono (actress), Chizuru Ikewaki (actress), Nana Katase (actress), Rena Nônen (actress), Tomoe Shinohara (actress), Rina Ôta (actress), Akiko Higashimura (writer), Toshiya Ohno (writer), Kumiko Iijima (costume designer),

Genres: Comedy,

Mibôjin sentô: Oppai no jikan desuyo! (2010)

Actors: Yutaka Ikejima (actor), Tarô Kai (actor), Hironari Kubota (actor), Takahiro Nomura (actor), Atsushi Tsuda (actor), Elly Akira (actress), Yuria Hidaka (actress), Nana Takeshita (actress), Kyôko Godai (writer), Hitomi Oba (composer), Yutaka Ikejima (director), Shôji Sakai (editor),

Genres: ,

Hana to hebi (2004)

Actors: Gô Arisue (actor), Mr. Buddhaman (actor), Blake Crawford (actor), Ken'ichi Endô (actor), Kazuki Hashimoto (actor), Hidetaka Ichiyama (actor), Daisuke Iijima (actor), Masakazu Ikeda (actor), Renji Ishibashi (actor), Noriyuki Ishii (actor), Yôzaburô Itô (actor), Masatoshi Kaneko (actor), Yûji Kitahara (actor), Shigeo Kobayashi (actor), Masayuki Akinaga (actor),

Plot: Tôyama, a weak-willed businessman, is in debt to the Yakuza; they also have a video of him bribing a government minister. To clear his debts, he agrees to let them drug and kidnap his wife Shizuko, Japan's queen of the tango, and subject her to the proclivities of a 95-year-old voyeur, who's a Yakuza boss. After a masked ball, Shizuko is taken prisoner; she fights her captors, submitting only when the life of Kyôko, her female bodyguard, is threatened. Tôyama feels regret and seeks to buy back Shizuko, but by this time, she may be enjoying her situation. Is she, or is she pretending in order to protect herself and Kyôko? Would she want a way out if there is one?

Keywords: animal-in-title, attempted-rape, babe, bare-breasts, based-on-novel, bdsm, bodyguard, bondage, bondage-ropes, dance
Genres: Drama, Thriller,

ABC... XYZ (1999)

Actors: Nômaru Abe (actor), Yasufumi Hayashi (actor), Kazuho (actor), Kankurô Kudô (actor), Utaemon Ohmori (actor), Shingo Tsurumi (actor), Kanako Kojima (actress), Kaori Mizushima (actress), Rina Tokutake (actress), Henri Ishii (producer), Makoto Ogawa (producer), Hajime Suzuki (producer), Mihoko Watanabe (writer), Kenji Kurihara (composer), Akiyoshi Imazeki (director),

Genres: Comedy,

Shin dousei jidai (1998)

Actors: Masato Hagiwara (actor), Sei Hiraizumi (actor), Mitsuru Hirata (actor), Naoki Hosaka (actor), Renji Ishibashi (actor), Takaya Kamikawa (actor), Takao Kisugi (actor), Hiroyuki Satô (actor), Moeko Ezawa (actress), Kanako Fukaura (actress), Natsumi Nanase (actress), Miki Sakai (actress), Ryôko Shinohara (actress), Yasuko Tomita (actress), Satoshi Suzuki (producer),

Genres: Drama,

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)

Actors: Yasuhiro Arai (actor), Yasosuke Bando (actor), Ren Ebata (actor), Eimei Esumi (actor), Junya Fukuda (actor), Hideo Fukuhara (actor), Tsutomu Harada (actor), Tatsuya Hiragaki (actor), Mitsuru Hirata (actor), Minoru Hodaka (actor), Toshio Hosokawa (actor), Hiroki Ida (actor), Ryô Ikebe (actor), Hiroshi Katsuno (actor), Masato Aizawa (actor),

Plot: A fictionalized account in four segments of the life of Japan's celebrated twentieth-century author Yukio Mishima. Three of the segments parallel events in Mishima's life with his novels (The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Kinkaku-ji), Kyoko's House, and Runaway Horses), while the fourth depicts 25 November 1970, "The Last Day"...

Keywords: acolyte, actor, actress, adoration, aesthetics, air-raid, air-raid-shelter, air-raid-warden, airplane, alarm
Genres: Biography, Drama,
Taglines: On November 25, 1970, Japan's greatest author Yukio Mishima commited an act that shocked the literary world...

Quotes:

Isao: By turning one's life into a line of poetry written in a splash of blood.

Yukio Mishima: I come out on the stage determined to make people weep. Instead, they burst out laughing.

Yukio Mishima (Narrator): All my life I have been acutely aware of a contradiction in the very nature of my existence. For forty-five years I struggled to resolve this dilemma by writing plays and novels. The more I wrote, the more I realized mere words were not enough. So I found another form of expression.

[referring to his "frog feet" and Mizoguchi's stuttering]::Mariko: Guys like us are just like beautiful girls. We get sick of always being stared at.

Yukio Mishima (Narrator): My need to transform reality was an urgent necessity, as important as three meals a day or sleep.

Mizoguchi: [stuttering] It was as s-small as this, but grew so big... it filled the world like... tremendous music. That's the p-p-power of beauty's eternity. It poisons us. It blocks out our lives.::Mariko: Please, enough of your pride! Beauty is like a rotten tooth. It rubs against your tongue, hurting, insisting on its importance. Finally you go to a dentist and have it pulled. Then you look at the small bloody tooth in your hand and say, "Is that all it was?" That's the way it is.

Mariko: Only knowledge can turn life's unbearableness into a weapon.

Yukio Mishima (Narrator): I wanted to explode, light the sky for an instant and disappear.

Natsuo: Even the most beautiful body is soon destroyed by age. Where is beauty then? Only art makes human beauty endure. You must devise an artist's scheme to preserve it. You must commit suicide at the height of your beauty.

[Kiyomi cuts Osamu's bare chest. Osamu looks up, surprised]::Kiyomi: It's just a little cut.::Osamu: Why?::Kiyomi: Your skin is so beautiful, I just had to cut it.::Osamu: [smiles] It felt pleasant.

Kyônetsu no kisetsu (1960)

Actors: Eiji Gô (actor), Tamio Kawaji (actor), Kôjirô Kusanagi (actor), Hiroyuki Nagato (actor), Chico Roland (actor), Reiko Arai (actress), Yuko Chishiro (actress), Yôko Kosono (actress), Noriko Matsumoto (actress), Chigusa Takayama (actress), Takeshi Yamamoto (producer), Nobuo Yamada (writer), Toshirô Mayuzumi (composer), Koreyoshi Kurahara (director), Akira Suzuki (editor),

Plot: A juvenile delinquent gets out of the pen and immediately embarks on a rampage of untethered anger, most of it directed at the girlfriend of the journalist who helped send him up. The Warped Ones sounded a lost generation's cry for help and was one of the films that kicked off Japan's cinematic sixties with a bang.

Keywords: bar, beach, fight, street-walker, striptease
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: They Do Every-thing!

Umikko yamakko (1959)

Actors: Kappei Matsumoto (actor), Kô Mihashi (actor), Shôjirô Ogasawara (actor), Keizô Sasagawa (actor), Yasurô Takada (actor), Haruo Yoshida (actor), Hisayoshi Yoshizawa (actor), Noriko Arita (actress), Sen Hara (actress), Chôko Iida (actress), Yoshiko Sakurai (actress), Keisuke Tsutsui (writer), Hikaru Hayashi (composer), Sotoji Kimura (director), Fumiko Kishi (editor),

Genres: Drama,