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Tôhôkenbunroku 1993

The Guard from Underground 1992 star_border 5.7
A former sumo wrestler, now working as a security guard, goes on a murderous rampage.

Slow Down 1991
Youth movie set in Osaka about the trial and tribulations of growing up. Centered around three close friends, a bike racer, a yakuza thug and a spoiled rich boy - who meet a girl from Tokyo. Based on director Shinsuke Shimada's own book "Kaze, to Suzuka".

Midsummer's Earth 1991
A summery youth movie about love and beach volleyball, adapted by Yuhei Enoki from an original draft by Osamu Murakami. Starring Kenichiro Kikuchi and Eri Fukatsu.

Mourning Work 1991

Maria's Stomach 1990
A carnivorous monster lives on the island of Sipang. A group of office ladies band together to fight it.

Tokyo Heaven 1990 star_border 7.3
A pampered young model is killed in a traffic accident. Given the chance to return to earth, she becomes involved with the advertising executive who is trying to cover up her death. A blend of fantasy and trenchant realism in which Somai uses the ethereal glow of advertising images to comment on the transience of life.

The Promise of the Third Line 1988
The struggle of two young people in rehabilitation

Yojo no jidai 1988

Door 1988 star_border 6.1
A housewife, Yasuko lives in an urban high-rise apartment with her husband Satoru and her son Takuto. Annoyed by spam calls and door-to-door salesmen, Yasuko slams the door on a salesman’s finger when he tries to squeeze a flyer through chained door. He leaves but the next day, her nightmare starts.

Evil Dead Trap 1988 star_border 5.9
A talk show hostess takes a camera crew out to an abandoned factory to investigate a purported snuff film that was made there. As she gets closer to the truth, she and her friends are subjected to a brutal nightmare.

Eien no 1/2 1987 star_border 6
An unemployed young man who has just broken up with his girlfriend meets a woman at a bicycle race. They start dating but then strange things then begin to happen to him, including a beating from the local yakuza. - Wikipedia

Luminous Woman 1987 star_border 5
A hulking man from the country pursues his beloved to the underworld of Tokyo nightclubs, where he finds work as a sideshow wrestler and becomes involved with a faded opera singer.

The House of Wedlock 1986
Tokiko Enomoto finds out that her husband Kazuya, who mostly lives at an apartment near his work while she and their children live at home, has been having an affair with a live-in mistress, Ryōko, at his apartment. Tokiko tells her two sons, Tarō and Jirō, that she has decided to divorce their father. The children are shocked but understand their mother's position. Kazuya realizes the damage he has done and tries to remedy the situation.

One Who Died in Vain 1986 star_border 7.4
After returning from the Burmese front in WWII, a man finds trouble brewing back home.

Scent of a Spell 1985 star_border 5
A young man returns home from the bar only to find a woman who was about to kill herself. Taking her home and protecting her, he learns that she’s escaped from a violent husband. but there’s more to her story than she's willing to tell at first.

Bumpkin Soup 1985 star_border 4.8
A country girl visits Tokyo in search of her college heartthrob. Here she meets horny students, a psychology professor in search of the theory of shame, and Yoshioka who has become a campus nobody.

Typhoon Club 1985 star_border 6.5
Offering a caustic immersion into the lives of disaffected junior high students on the cusp of adulthood, the film takes place over the five-day period before, during, and after a ferocious, seemingly-liberating typhoon, which six of the students endure while marooned in their school.

Love Hotel 1985 star_border 6.6
A man incurs a large debt and goes bankrupt. The yakuza come to collect and rape his wife. Racked with guilt he decides to pick up call girl and commit suicide. He fails and years later as a taxi driver he meets the call girl by chance and they begin a complicated relationship.

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