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A Night in Nude 1993 star_border 6
Jiro is a Tokyo man who offers a stand-in service where he'll do "anything". A woman claiming to be from Fukuoka wants to be shown around Tokyo and see the sights. What Jiro doesn't know is that this woman isn't who she says she is. She's on the run from her Yakuza boyfriend, and Jiro is going to be unwittingly entwined in the situation.

The Gentle 12 1991 star_border 6.5
The film opens as a jury is about to acquit a defendant -- a bar hostess who pushed her ex-husband path of an oncoming truck, supposedly in self-defense. Just as everyone seems to be in agreement over the woman's innocence, one juror voices second thoughts.

Happy Ending Story 1991
High school student Mikiko travels back in time to the future using a time machine built by Monjiro, the physics club advisor. What awaited her there was the reality that her best friends, Yoko and Tatsuro, were already married and were on the verge of breaking up. Mikiko returns to the modern world with the help of future Monjiro to mend their relationship.

The Cherry Orchard 1990 star_border 2.8
At an all-girls school, a group of girls prepare for a stage performance of Anton Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard".

Heaven and Earth: Dawn Episode 1990 star_border 10
Some of the greatest battles during the Age of Civil Wars were fought between the Uesugi and Takeda clans. Leading up to them was the incredible life of Uesugi Kenshin, who rose from a son out of favor with his...

Rasuto kyabaree 1988 star_border 2.3
A bittersweet coming of age story of a high school girl, her father and the end of an erotic night club. An allegorical requiem for Nikkatsu studios.

Summer Vacation 1999 1988 star_border 5.8
Summer Vacation tells the story of four teenage students who spend their summer vacation at school – unsupervised and untouched by the outside world.

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A Taxing Woman 1987 star_border 6.9
Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Gondo, a suspected millionaire and proprietor of a thriving chain of seedy hourly hotels, who has for years succeeded at hiding the true extent of his assets from the Japanese authorities. Itakura and Gondo soon find themselves engaged in a complicated, satirical battle of wits.

Jokyōshi 'izu noodoriko' satsujin jiken 1986
Teacher Shizuko and her literature club students are caught up in a murder case while on vacation in Izu. The victims are Kazumasa, who was in a relationship with Shizuko's friend Ritsuko, and his wife.

No More Comics! 1986 star_border 6
Stuck doing show-biz schlock, an investigative reporter stumbles on a scheme to swindle pensions through an attractive gold futures scam, a potential news-story.

Tampopo 1985 star_border 7.8
In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tampopo, begs them to help her turn her establishment into a paragon of the "art of noodle-soup making". Interspersed are satirical vignettes about the importance of food to different aspects of human life.

Kabuki-chô Bangaichi: Rasuto onanie 1985 star_border 2
With the enforcement of the new Entertainment and Amusement Law, what will happen when fashionable massage girls have lost their way?

Sotsugyou -GRADUATION- 1985
Momoko Watanabe—a student who, upon visiting a shrine in order to wish good luck on a friend of hers, witnesses a murder in the forest...and she knows the culprit! Unfortunately, she doesn't have it in her to tell anybody about it, and to make matters worse, said aforementioned friend gets accused of the murder.

The Funeral 1984 star_border 7.2
When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events and occurrences as the funeral unfolds over three days in their home.

Watashi no naka no shōfu 1984 star_border 2

Oda kaoru sen'nyū taiken repōto shibuyadōgenzaka rabuhoteru 24-ji 1984
Kaoru Oda goes undercover to cover the Shibuya Dogenzaka Love Hotel District. A camera enters her room. Interview after the vivid play of the hotel lady. The staff leaves and Kaoru Oda is left alone with the man. The video records the interaction between just the two of them. A man approaches Kaoru Oda. A vivid live play begins...

Red Campus: Crazy After School 1984 star_border 2
The daily life of a female teacher appears calm and ordinary at first glance. However, behind her back, her husband, an elite teacher who works at the same school, continues to torture her with sadistic sex. Her husband played exam questions to violent students and played with the female students' bodies in return. When the female teacher goes out into the city at night to say goodbye to the ugliness and dirt hidden in her school and husband, she finds human liberation and a new way of life.

Koichiro Uno's Dancer of Izu 1984 star_border 8

Aiyoku no hibi: Ekusutashī 1984
Two people who have suffered the loss of a loved one meet by chance at a train station and lose themselves in a melancholy affair.

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