Yūji Tajiri
Director
Movies7
Movie2.0The basement of the house where sculptor Takai lives. This is the studio where he creates his works. Yoko, an art critic, is tied up and hung from the ceiling by Takai. Takai beats Yoko's supple naked body with a whip. Yoko feels a perverse pleasure in the pain.
MovieShinjuku's Kabukicho district is a hub for all kinds of sex-related businesses. In fact, most of these businesses did not originate in this area, but rather were born elsewhere, drawn to Kabukicho, and then spread throughout the country. SM clubs offering nurse role-playing, hotel escorts based in Shinjuku, and nighttime sex services that are secretly gaining popularity. A reporting team follows the realities of these new sex-related businesses...
Movie4.5RomanceDramaThe 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.
Movie6.4DocumentaryDocumentary 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" films have served as both a key source of revenue for the Japanese film industry as well as a launching pad for the careers of such mainstream filmmakers as Kiyoshi Kurosawa. After providing a detailed history of the still-profitable and popular genre through interviews with a variety of behind-the-scenes players and clips from such classic pink films as Fish Bait Boobies, director Fujii shifts his focus to the production of an upcoming pink film to offer a glimpse into the creative and stylistic evolution of the genre.
Movie4.5DramaA timid young woman who lives with her domineering mother accepts an Adult Video scout's offer to "become somebody else" by performing in porn videos. As she rises in popularity, the boundaries between her two lives begin to disintegrate.
Movie3.0DramaSachiko, a young woman frustrated with her life of dull routine, and seeking stimulation outside the deadening monotony of housework and catering to her needy husband, befriends Kobayashi, a neighbor whose wife has been carrying on an affair right under his very nose.
Movie2.0"Groper Train" pink film distributed by Shintoho.