Sweet Scent of Eros

1973

Japanese

4.8

♡ 8

Action

Drama

Romance

Toshiya Fujita Director

Kaori Momoi as Etsuko

Hatsuo Yamaya as Hisao

Hiroshi Gojô as Man

Hiroko Isayama as Yukie

Yukie, Koichi and Akira are rogues looking for a place to crash. They move into a house which Etsuko (Kaori Momoi) inherited from her parents. Soon after getting settled, the hippies slip into a communal lifestyle. They eat, have sex, and generally share everything together.

Tokkan

1975

Japanese

6.2

♡ 3

Kihachi Okamoto Director

Hiroko Isayama as

Tatsuya Nakadai as

Yûsuke Okada as

Sachio Sakai as

During the military phase of the Meiji Restoration of 1868, Sentaro joins a local militia loyal to the Tokugawa Shogunate in order to fight Imperial troops. But Sentaro's friendship with a pickpocket, who switches sides whenever it suits his needs, leads to complications that could cost Sentaro his life as they infiltrate enemy lines.

Shiroi yubi no tawamure

1972

Japanese

5.7

♡ 3

Tôru Murakawa Director

Hajime Tanimoto as Jiro

Gô Awazu as Tachikawa

Ichirô Araki as Taku

Hiroko Isayama as Yuki

A girl falls for a pickpocketer who gets arrested, so she hooks up with his ex-girlfriend and his ex-cellmate.

Kage gari: Hoero taihô

1972

Japanese

6.6

♡ 2

Action

Adventure

Crime

Toshio Masuda Director

Junko Miyashita as Akane

Yoshirô Aoki as Hoshino

Hiroko Isayama as Kunoichi

Mari Shiraki as Osen

The great Daimyo enlists the aid of the three Shadow Hunters in ensuring the delivery of an illegal cannon in this sequel to Toshio Masuda's bloody adaptation of the manga by Takao Saito. Despite the Shadow Hunters's remarkable skill, this mission is no walk in the park, and in order to survive they must face a relentless army of ninjas and female warriors willing to sacrifice their lives to disrupt the delivery and claim the cannon for themselves.

The Light Shines Only There

2014

Japanese

6.6

♡ 1

62%

Mipo Oh Director

Chizuru Ikewaki as Chinatsu Ohshiro

Hiroko Isayama as Kazuko Oshiro

Masaki Suda as Takuji Ohshiro

Gô Ayano as Tatsuo Sato

A man has thrown away love and a woman has given up on love. The two souls meet in a brief summer in the northern city of Hakodate.

Empire of Passion

1978

Japanese

7.0

♡ 15

80%

70%

Action

based on novel or book

Drama

Horror

husband wife relationship

regret

relationship problems

Romance

sexual obsession

suspicion of murder

Nagisa Ôshima Director

Kenzô Kawarasaki as (as Kenzo Kawarazaki)

Hiroko Isayama as Bride

Takahiro Tamura as Gisaburo

Takuzô Kawatani as Inspector Hotta

In a small Japanese village at the end of the 19th century, a rickshaw driver's wife takes on a much younger lover and the two conspire to murder him.

Yes, I Can't Swim

2022

Japanese

5.7

Drama

Kensaku Watanabe Director

Yuriko Hirooka as

Haruka Ayase as

Hiroko Isayama as

Kaoru Kobayashi as Professor Kamoshita

Yuji Takanashi is a university philosophy professor who can't swim. Making awkward justifications to himself about the relationship between water and people, still he decides on the spur of the moment to enroll in a swimming class. There he encounters the teacher Shizuka Usuhara, who ignores his last-minute hesitation and enrolls him.

Case of the Disjointed Murder

1977

Japanese

5.8

♡ 1

Drama

Mystery

Chûsei Sone Director

Yûko Kusunoki as Akiko Utsugi

Hiroko Isayama as Chigusa Nagumo

Takahiro Tamura as Senbei Yashiro

Jun Izumi as Shimoe

In the summer of 1947, various men and women gather at a mansion in the countryside at the invitation of Kazuma Utagawa. They are artists, novelists, poets, painters, playwrights, actresses, etc. Then the murders begin, one after another. The incident seemed to have no continuity...

Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue

2017

Japanese

6.5

♡ 9

96%

Yûya Ishii Director

Hiroko Isayama as

Takahiro Miura as

Mikako Ichikawa as Mika's mother

Bokuzô Masana as Predident of bulder company

Mika works as a nurse by day; by night she entertains covetous men at a girls' bar. Shinji is blind in one eye and ekes out a living as a construction worker. Young and grown-up at the same time, they both lead a lonely existence, but somehow their paths keep miraculously crossing under the Tokyo sky.

Dead or Alive 2: Birds

2000

Japanese

6.7

♡ 7

100%

Takashi Miike Director

Edison Chen as Boo

Shô Aikawa as Mizuki Okamoto

Tôru Tezuka as Teru, informant

Hiroko Isayama as Woman in black hat

Two contract killers cross paths in the middle of the same job and realize they are childhood friends. Together they take a break from killing and visit the small island they once called home. After reflecting on their past lives they decided to team up and use their talents in killing for good... much to the upset of the crime syndicates.

Onna jigoku: Mori wa nureta

1973

Japanese

5.5

♡ 6

Tatsumi Kumashiro Director

Akira Takahashi as Jihei

Hiroko Isayama as Sachiko Murai

Moeko Ezawa as Waitress

Rie Nakagawa as Yoko / Wife

Sachiko has just committed a crime. She is helped by a couple to whom she grants her confidence. Quickly this couple blackmails her and threatens to deliver her to the police. Sachiko has no other choice but to obey them.

Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41

1972

Japanese

7.1

♡ 16

Shun'ya Itô Director

Jirô Sagawa as

Osamu Yamanouchi as

Hiroko Isayama as Asako Noda

Shinzô Hotta as Furuya

After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a female prison full of sadistic guards and disobedient prisoners.

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Sweet Scent of Eros

Tokkan

Shiroi yubi no tawamure

Kage gari: Hoero taihô

The Light Shines Only There

Empire of Passion

Yes, I Can't Swim

Case of the Disjointed Murder

Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue

Dead or Alive 2: Birds

Onna jigoku: Mori wa nureta

Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41