Moeko Ezawa

Moeko Ezawa

Born: March 28, 1939
Died: December 26, 2022
in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan

Movies for Moeko Ezawa...

Postcard
Title: Postcard
Released: October 27, 2010
Type: Movie
Toward the end of World War II, middle-aged soldier Keita is entrusted with a postcard from a comrade who is sure he will die in battle. After the war ends, Keita visits his comrade's wife Yuko and bears witness to the tragic life she has led.
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Here Comes the Bride, My Mom!
Title: Here Comes the Bride, My Mom!
Character: Saku Ueno
Released: September 4, 2010
Type: Movie
Tsukiko, whose father died before she was born, lives with her mother Yoko and they provide mutual support for each other. One day, Yoko comes home completely drunk with Kenji, a young man with blond hair, and tells Tsukiko, "I'm going to marry him."
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Golden Flower: What Is Hidden Is the True Flower, What Is Gone Is the Butterfly
Title: Golden Flower: What Is Hidden Is the True Flower, What Is Gone Is the Butterfly
Released: November 21, 2009
Type: Movie
Nursing home "Yuyoso". Many lonely old people live there, including botanist Taro Makiso, a physicist, an actor, a bar mom, and a chef. Maki has spent most of his life studying botany, and has lived without regard for entertainment, drinking, women, or everything else in the world. Then came my 80th birthday. He and a young staff member go digging for wild yam and find a mysterious golden flower. It was the flower of immortality, the "Golden Flower", which was said to bloom beside the Himalayan Virgin, which he had been looking for for many years. From that day onwards, fragments of memories from his youth, which he had intentionally sealed off in order to immerse himself in botany, surged into Maki in a whirlpool.
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Title: Mission To Kill
Released: January 9, 2009
Type: TV
Continuation of the popular series of films about the assassins in Edo. This show marks the return of the jidaigeki series "Hissatsu Shigotonin," which has had several seasons between the 1970s and the 1990s. The franchise came back in 2007 with a one-shot special, but this is its first full season since 1992. Makoto Fujita returns as the protagonist Nakamura Mondo, one of the "shigotonin," a team of hired assassins.
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Faraway Heaven
Title: Faraway Heaven
Released: November 8, 2008
Type: Movie
Chizuru, a typical Japanese young female office worker, is socially clumsy, poor at romance and unhappy with her job. Being weary from a busy and stressful city life, she seriously desires to end her life somewhere faraway from the city and leaves for deep in the mountains, where she finds one lonely house. Then she attempts to commit suicide by taking sleeping pills in the guest house but she fails.... This is the beginning of her new life.
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Rakugo musume
Title: Rakugo musume
Character: Toshiko Ishida
Released: August 23, 2008
Type: Movie
When a gal named Kasumi decides to become a traditional Japanese 'Rakugo' storyteller due to her uncle's invalidity, she is soon on her way to a career with college-level and amateur success. She becomes a student to one of the master's of the genre and is even asked to perform by a TV producer. The only snag is, the particular story has a curse dripping from its words.
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Hana
Title: Hana
Character: Okatsu
Released: June 3, 2006
Type: Movie
In a poor district of Edo lives a young samurai named Soza. He has been sent by his clan to avenge the death of his father. He isn't an accomplished swordsman however, and he prefers sharing the life of the residents, teaching the kids how to write etc. When he finally finds the man he is looking for, he will have to decide whether he follows the way of the samurai or chooses peace and reconciliation.
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The Vanished
Title: The Vanished
Released: March 25, 2006
Type: Movie
A young reporter is covering the mysterious case of a child found dead with missing internal organs.
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Aogeba Tôtoshi
Title: Aogeba Tôtoshi
Released: January 21, 2006
Type: Movie
Mortality and death seen through the eyes of a lonely student who has an morbid and albeit naive fascination with death. His teacher, Koichi is also grappling with the issue of mortality as he deals with the impending death of his ailing father, who has decided to spend his final days in the family home. As the story progresses, Koichi finds unexpected solace from his grief by letting his troubled student visit and meet with his father in the hopes that he will understand the meaning of life and death.
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Harami: White Fear
Title: Harami: White Fear
Released: November 19, 2005
Type: Movie
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Sunday's Dream
Title: Sunday's Dream
Released: October 22, 2005
Type: Movie
Kazuya goes to live with his mother Shinobu because his father, Yoshiki, who works in the same company, has fired him according to the company policy regarding redundancy. However, Shinobu soon gets remarried to Sakamoto depriving Kazuya of a place to stay. He then meets Sachiko who works in a salon where sexual pleasure is offered to men. They promise to have a date on the next Sunday by the sea.
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Samurai Justice 2: Mother & Daughter
Title: Samurai Justice 2: Mother & Daughter
Character: Osaki
Released: January 11, 2005
Type: Movie
Master swordsman Akiyama Kohei’s simple life in retirement is jarred into violent sword action when he meets an elderly fencing instructor who may be the target of a group of thieves planning a major armed robbery. At the same time dojo master Daijiro saves the life of man who, although skilled in archery has an aversion to killing and a woman artist comes into town where she is in danger of being raped by one of the thieves. From the pen of noted author Ikenami Shotaro, creator of such classics as Bandit Ve. Samurai, Hunter In The Dark, The Last Samurai, and Hissatsu-The Professional Killers! Brilliant storytelling that leads to superb swordsmanship!
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Fireflies: River of Light
Title: Fireflies: River of Light
Released: June 5, 2004
Type: Movie
After finally passing his teacher's exam, Miwa (Yukiyoshi Ozawa) devoted himself to teaching in a rustic primary school. He struggles to get through to his students, until he creates a class project to raise fireflies to fly over it once again. All students, even the reserved girl Hikari (Risako Sugaya), become passionately involved in the project. However, it brings them into conflict with parents and the school, one problem after another stands in his way.
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Title: 稲垣吾郎の金田一耕助シリーズ
Character: Koicha
Released: April 3, 2004
Type: TV
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Wild Berries
Title: Wild Berries
Character: Kimiko
Released: September 6, 2003
Type: Movie
A portrait of an ordinary family that turns unstable when their frivolous son Shuji returns home after a long absence.
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Pretty Woman
Title: Pretty Woman
Character: Saya Hatanaka
Released: May 9, 2003
Type: Movie
Elderly ladies rise to the challenge of staging a play and struggle to launch a theater company. Based on the actual amateur theater company "Theatrical Company Hono" in Fujieda City, Shizuoka Prefecture, where the presiding officers and performers are composed of elderly women. They have been performing stage plays about issues related to the elderly for a long time.
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True Record: The Life of Masahisa Takenaka Raging Lion Second Part
Title: True Record: The Life of Masahisa Takenaka Raging Lion Second Part
Released: April 25, 2003
Type: Movie
The second half of the true story of Masahisa Takenaka, 4th kumicho of the Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan’s largest yakuza gang
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Title: AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo
Released: October 9, 2002
Type: TV
Detective Ukyo Sugishita confronts crime on the basis of his own convictions. He has a partner that works for him in the Special Task Unit. For the first 7 seasons, Ukyo’s first partner is Kaoru Kameyama. He is a good-natured, hot-tempered, straightforward and somewhat scattered detective. Beginning in Season 8, Takeru Kanbe replaces Kameyama. Contrary to his predecessor, Takeru is a lanky, cool, conceited and confident detective. From Season 11 to Season 13, Ukyo’s partner is a young detective Toru Kai. Toru is a son of Deputy Director-General of The National Police Agency. But he became a detective by his own effort. And starting with Season 14, Ukyo’s current partner is Wataru Kaburagi, an elite bureaucrat who came to the Metropolitan Police Department on temporary assignment. As the first partner without any career of a police officer, he will face challenging cases together with Ukyo.
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The Happiness of the Katakuris
Title: The Happiness of the Katakuris
Character: Itako
Released: February 23, 2002
Type: Movie
The Katakuri family has just opened their guest house in the mountains. Unfortunately their first guest commits suicide and in order to avoid trouble they decide to bury him in the backyard. Things get way more complicated when their second guest, a famous sumo wrestler, dies while having sex with his underage girlfriend and the grave behind the house starts to fill up more and more.
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A Tender Place
Title: A Tender Place
Character: Tsutae Izumi
Released: July 14, 2001
Type: Movie
Kasumi is in the midst of an affair with Ishiyama, one of her husband's clients. When Kasumi and her family visit Ishiyama's villa in Hokkaido, she plans to abandon them to be with Ishiyama. The next morning, her daughter Yuka disappears, which throws Kasumi's life into turmoil. Years later, Yuka remains missing, and Kasumi journeys back to Hokkaido with Utsumi, a terminally-ill former detective, and tries to follow any leads she can.
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Sakuya: The Slayer of Demons
Title: Sakuya: The Slayer of Demons
Character: Old woman
Released: December 8, 2000
Type: Movie
The eruption of Mt. Fuji in 1707 released hordes of demons from deep inside the earth. Sakuya, the young daughter of a samurai killed fighting these demons, accepts a mission to travel to Mt. Fuji and defeat the evil spirits. Accompanying her on her journey are two veteran warriors who served her father, and Tarō, a young kappa, or river spirit, whom she has adopted as her little brother. Along the way, the two warriors have doubts about Tarō’s loyalties, and the young kappa himself must decide if he will stand with his own species or with the humans who have cared for him.
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Debt King Part VII: Millennium
Title: Debt King Part VII: Millennium
Released: July 22, 2000
Type: Movie
Takao, the owner of a coffee shop and brother-in-law to Anzai, the assistant manager of Hikari Bank, Osaka central branch, is caught in a scam by an online financial service.
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Kamome
Title: Kamome
Character: Yoshie
Released: March 4, 2000
Type: Movie
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Yanmama Trucker Hiryuden
Title: Yanmama Trucker Hiryuden
Released: July 22, 1999
Type: Movie
Girlboss trucker film.
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Will to Live
Title: Will to Live
Released: January 15, 1999
Type: Movie
It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the substitution of putting a parent into an old people's home for the abandonment of the original. The film won the Golden St. George and the FIPRESCI Prize at the 21st Moscow International Film Festival.
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King of Sha-kin 4
Title: King of Sha-kin 4
Released: July 4, 1998
Type: Movie
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Soft Skin
Title: Soft Skin
Character: Minako Tohno
Released: January 31, 1998
Type: Movie
Minako, a Tokyo housewife, is depressed that everyone has an active life outside the home except her. Taking her inspiration from TV reports of a hitch-hiking chainsaw murderer, Minako decides to spice up her life by finding a young lover and running off with him by faking her kidnapping. While her family frets and worries, Minako has a wonderful time. Eventually, though, she decides it's time to go back to her family. Her lover, however, isn't ready for the fun to end, and Minako's fake kidnapping soon becomes all too real.
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King of Sha-kin
Title: King of Sha-kin
Released: October 11, 1997
Type: Movie
In late 90s Osaka, three people from various walks of life meet by chance. They team up to orchestrate a complex financial con targeting crooked businessmen in an attempt to solve their respective financial woes.
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To Love
Title: To Love
Character: Woman at the apartment
Released: October 4, 1997
Type: Movie
Mitsu works in a factory and has a crush on Tsutomu, a young man she met on the Tokyo streets. One day the two go out, and after some deception, Tsutomu manages to have his way with her. Coming from a broken home, he is frightened by love, so he cruelly allows her to wake up alone. A month passes and a more grown-up Tsutomu returns. The lovers joyously reunite and move in together. All is blissful until both notice a strange sore on Mitsu's arm. The doctors diagnose it as leprosy. Without telling Tsutomu, Mitsu checks into a leper sanitarium. Hanging out with society's pariahs gives her much insight. She discovers the old lepers to be wonderful people. In turn, Mitsu becomes their source of joy and renewed hope. Still, she misses her Tsutomu. One day, the doctors inform her that they erred and that the sore is not leprosy. Happily she heads back to her true love until she realizes with a guilty pang that to return to him would mean unhappiness for her newfound friends
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Prostitution Gang
Title: Prostitution Gang
Released: August 13, 1997
Type: Movie
With a title like that... you just have to watch it.
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Young Thugs: Innocent Blood
Title: Young Thugs: Innocent Blood
Released: June 21, 1997
Type: Movie
Young Thugs: Innocent Blood follows three friends through their first year after leaving high school. Having robbed their teacher on their last day, Ryoko gets a job in a hair salon, while the two boys settle down into a career of enforcement and protection.
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XX: Graceful Beautiful Beast
Title: XX: Graceful Beautiful Beast
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
The story of Shien brought up as a killing machine in a nunnery. Can she flee from the clutches of the underground organization?
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Supermarket Woman
Title: Supermarket Woman
Character: Pato
Released: June 15, 1996
Type: Movie
Failing supermarket manager Goro hires the energetic Hanako, his old classmate, to help him compete with a new, rival business in town. Soon, Hanako's ideas and energy completely revitalize the store – but not without ruffling some feathers and sparking some romance along the way.
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Kagerô 2
Title: Kagerô 2
Released: February 10, 1996
Type: Movie
An entertainment drama depicting the conflict of yakuza, centering on the female torso and her sister's feud.
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Asian Blue: Ukishima-maru Incident
Title: Asian Blue: Ukishima-maru Incident
Released: September 2, 1995
Type: Movie
Asian Blue focuses on Koreans brought to Japan to work in forced-labor brigades during World War II
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Getting Any?
Title: Getting Any?
Character: Asao's Wife
Released: February 11, 1995
Type: Movie
While pursuing his dream of having car sex, a goofy middle-aged man makes all the wrong moves and ends up enrolling in a number of crazy escapades.
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Heisei Irresponsible Family: Tokyo de Luxe
Title: Heisei Irresponsible Family: Tokyo de Luxe
Character: Matsu Ameya
Released: January 28, 1995
Type: Movie
The members of the Ameya family are all scammers. After their election scheme goes bust in their hometown, they move from Shikoku to Tokyo and resume their fraudulent activities. Everything carries on smoothly until the eldest and the fourth sons' modus operandi go awry, the mother's lover runs off with another woman, and disasters strike one after another. This film is a collaboration between Yoichi Sai and Goro Kishitani following "All Under the Moon." The family business of the Ameya family is defrauding people. The matriarch, who keeps getting married and divorced, has five children with different fathers. The Ameya family chases after fortune and leaves a trail of trouble on their path.
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Ghost Pub
Title: Ghost Pub
Character: Satoko's Mother
Released: October 29, 1994
Type: Movie
One night, as pub owner Sotaro is caring for his sick wife, Shizuko, she asks him to promise that if she dies, he will never remarry. Thinking she is just being dramatic, he promises and tells her to go to sleep. When he wakes the next morning, however, Shizuko is dead. Sotaro keeps his promise, until one day he meets Satoko. The two quickly fall in love, and agree to get married. Their first night together, however, is interrupted by Shizuko, who is angry over her husband's broken promise. Sotaro and Satoko must find some way of appeasing the spirit before she drives them from their home.
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All Under the Moon
Title: All Under the Moon
Character: Eijun
Released: November 6, 1993
Type: Movie
A Korean taxi-driver interacts both humorously and tragically with his customers and employers in '90s Tokyo.
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Hold Me and Kiss Me
Title: Hold Me and Kiss Me
Released: November 14, 1992
Type: Movie
Keiko’s life is turned upside down when she discovers that she has been infected with HIV. As she struggles to cope with the situation and resist the infection, she finds new friendship and companionship with a journalist named Miyuki and a man named Akira.
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KILL THEM ALL
Title: KILL THEM ALL
Released: November 23, 1990
Type: Movie
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Ronin-gai
Title: Ronin-gai
Character: Otoku
Released: August 18, 1990
Type: Movie
Near the end of Japanese civil war, several disgraced ronin living in Edo's red light district attempt to regain their honor by defending a brothel from a hostile militia bent on wiping out local prostitutes.
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Ningen no sabaku
Title: Ningen no sabaku
Released: April 28, 1990
Type: Movie
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Takeshi: Childhood Days
Title: Takeshi: Childhood Days
Character: Futoshi's mother
Released: January 12, 1990
Type: Movie
A story of childhood life during wartime Japan. Takeshi, the intelligent son of a fisherman, is the schoolyard bully. When his cousin comes to stay with his family to avoid bombing raids, Takeshi at first treats him well, then begins bullying him too. Takeshi eventually loses his position of leadership.
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Tomorrow
Title: Tomorrow
Character: Shoji's mother
Released: August 13, 1988
Type: Movie
On August 9, 1945, the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. This film, based on a story by Mitsukaru Inoue, describes the daily life of people in Nagasaki the day before that fateful event. It presents the human drama of people's lives, and their feelings of joy and sadness. These include a newlywed couple, an expectant mother, and lovers who must say farewell because the boy is called to serve in the army. Each of these people, like others in the city, hoped to live with their dreams for ‘tomorrow’. But tomorrow never comes for them, as their lives are brought to an abrupt and unexpected end. Knowing how the story ends, in this case, doesn't detract from it at all; rather, it enhances the emotional impact, which is further heightened by the poignant musical score from Teizo Matsumura. 'Ashita' is the first film in Kazuo Kuroki's 'War Requiem Trilogy,' which also includes 'Utsukushii Natsu Kirishima' (2002) and 'Chichi to Kuraseba' (2004).
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That's Roman Porno: Smile of Goddesses
Title: That's Roman Porno: Smile of Goddesses
Released: June 11, 1988
Type: Movie
A documentary compilation that shows various clips from the Roman Porno series of movies from 1971 to 1988.
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A Taxing Woman
Title: A Taxing Woman
Character: Tokushu Kankeinin
Released: February 7, 1987
Type: Movie
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.
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Yakuza Ladies
Title: Yakuza Ladies
Character: Yukie
Released: November 15, 1986
Type: Movie
While her husband is in prison doing time, Tamaki, the wife of a yakuza capo, runs her spouse’s gang with an iron hand. Meanwhile, Makoto, her younger sister, marries a member of a rival band after being raped by him. The two sisters, united by blood ties but married to enemy yakuzas, will ultimately have to decide whose side they’re on.
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The Shogunate's Harem
Title: The Shogunate's Harem
Character: Yajima
Released: June 14, 1986
Type: Movie
A new shogun is appointed to the throne when his brother dies. He find out that the former Shogun one of the women from his brothers harem became pregnant, but she escaped. The new Shogun would loose the throne if the child is a boy. Genshiro is doctor who, among other things, performs abortions, and is sheltering his love, another women who escaped from the harem. The new Shogun threatens to arrest the girl unless Genshiro hunts down the woman and aborts her child. Genshiro learns that the woman releases a "musky scent from her special area" when in ecstasy. Both Genshiro and his friend set out to find all the women of the former harem and have sex with them, by force if necessary.
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The Tragedy of “W”
Title: The Tragedy of “W”
Released: December 15, 1984
Type: Movie
A young girl is striving for stardom. In order to get a lead role in a new production, she agrees to stand-in for a famous star whose rich patron died in her arms one night. The real-life drama gradually comes to mirror the story of the play being performed by her.
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Dangerous Encounter
Title: Dangerous Encounter
Character: Yuki Aida
Released: June 12, 1984
Type: Movie
A woman's life is irrevocably altered when a young murderer stumbles into her home.
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Nogare no machi
Title: Nogare no machi
Released: October 15, 1983
Type: Movie
Based on the novel of the same name by Kenzo Kitakata.
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Blue Rain Osaka
Title: Blue Rain Osaka
Character: Nobue Uzaki
Released: July 8, 1983
Type: Movie
A woman who runs a bar with her older sister has her life disrupted when she has a chance meeting with an old lover.
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Title: 古谷一行の名探偵・金田一耕助シリーズ
Character: Osayo
Released: February 19, 1983
Type: TV
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Village of Doom
Title: Village of Doom
Character: Villager
Released: January 15, 1983
Type: Movie
An emotionally distraught young man goes on a violent killing spree after his tuberculosis keeps him from serving in World War II and is frowned upon by his fellow villagers.
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The Longest Tunnel
Title: The Longest Tunnel
Released: October 16, 1982
Type: Movie
After a passenger ship sinks in 1954, Go Akutsu devises a life-saving project in the form of a tunnel under the Tsugaru Strait. While working on this project Akutsu becomes involved with Tae Makimura leading to his estrangement from his wife.
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Zeccho shimai ochiru
Title: Zeccho shimai ochiru
Character: Yoshimi Marunishi - Mika's Mother
Released: October 15, 1982
Type: Movie
Mika, who used to be a call girl, is being pursued by a man that brokers prostitution. Her mother Yoshimi and older sister Mayumi also sold their bodies. But now, Mayumi will marry Soejima, a trading company man. Mika is happy to have a respectable relative and starts a part-time job at a pachinko parlor...
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The Dropout
Title: The Dropout
Released: October 2, 1982
Type: Movie
Detective Seiji Otaki is determined to find the psychopathic killer of a young woman who was ostensibly a student but in reality a high-priced prostitute. Even though he has been taken off the case for beating up a suspect, he refuses to let it go and recruits his mistress to act as a decoy for the killer. Her involvement turns out to be a fatal mistake, and when her husband gets out of prison, Detective Otaki is in worse trouble than ever.
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A Ghost Love Story of Japan
Title: A Ghost Love Story of Japan
Released: August 13, 1982
Type: Movie
A daughter of Hatamoto (high-ranked soldier) Otsuyu (Akiko Kana) and a Ronin living in Choya (cheap apartment) Shinzaburo Hagihara (Yoichi Hayashi) fell in love with each other. They could not see each other for a while, but Otsuyu visited Shinzaburo's place late at night, led by a servant Oyone (Shoko Yagi). Tomorrow night and next night as well.
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Rolling on the Road
Title: Rolling on the Road
Character: Keiko(恵子)
Released: October 23, 1981
Type: Movie
George is a washed-up middle-aged punk rocker, who divorces his wife and lives with his girlfriend, a soap massage parlor worker. His life becomes even more of a mess when the nurse he raped moves in with them.
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Monster Cat Saga Riot
Title: Monster Cat Saga Riot
Released: August 28, 1981
Type: Movie
A big deal that shakes up the Saga domain of 350,000 koku. A plot for power, the end of the desires of men and women, and a daughter's pet cat, which meets a tragic end, turns into a monster cat and takes out the grudge of its master.
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Aoba gakuen monogatari
Title: Aoba gakuen monogatari
Released: April 26, 1981
Type: Movie
1981 Japanese film based on the novel by Naoshiro Yoshimoto.
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Gate of Youth
Title: Gate of Youth
Released: January 15, 1981
Type: Movie
The story of Shinsuke, a young man who lives through a stormy life as a poverty-stricken coal miner. Ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his mid-teens. Coal workers and the mines dominate nearly every aspect of his life. Shinsuke's father a group leader at the mine, dies while bravely using dynamite to rescue a group of trapped Korean miners. Several older men attempt to help he and his mother cope, including a friendly Harley-riding yakuza boss. This movie has it all, drama, romance, sex, yakuza and violence! It is based on a story by Hiroyuki Itsuki that was originally serialized in the magazine Shukan Gendai in 1969-70.
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Disciples of Hippocrates
Title: Disciples of Hippocrates
Released: November 21, 1980
Type: Movie
The story revolves around Ogino, who is in the last year of his medical studies. Between lectures, exams, on field training, his commitment as a pro-reformist militant and his girlfriend, Ogino is starting to wonder if he's really cut out to be a doctor.
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Juvenile Wife
Title: Juvenile Wife
Character: Seki
Released: April 26, 1980
Type: Movie
A newlywed wife suffers the consequences for her husband’s actions when he cheats a customer at his credit company out of a large sum of money.
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Hell's Revenge
Title: Hell's Revenge
Character: Middle-aged female customer
Released: December 22, 1979
Type: Movie
Kenzo, Azusa's husband, has a heart condition but his passion for sex has not diminished one iota from the time he was a virile young man. Azusa does not refuse her husband for he is very wealthy and if he should happen to die of excess sex she would inherit a vast fortune. If only Azusa could kill him without staining her own hands. Unable to do it alone, she asks the aid of Naoya who is only too glad to help.
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G.I. Samurai
Title: G.I. Samurai
Character: Widow Yui
Released: September 17, 1979
Type: Movie
A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their country's warring states era, when rival samurai clans were battling to become the supreme Shogun.
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Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and Humanity
Title: Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and Humanity
Character: Toshio's mother
Released: May 26, 1979
Type: Movie
Two Kyushu based yakuza groups are desperate for domaination of the area. When more powerful yakuza groups get involved in their power struggle, a group of childhood friends, belonging to different yakuza families, are caught in the middle. Lies, deceit, and backstabbing are in play resulting in a bloodbath and a quest for revenge...
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High School Erotopia: Red Uniforms
Title: High School Erotopia: Red Uniforms
Character: Sasae
Released: May 19, 1979
Type: Movie
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Love Me Tenderly, Love Me Wildly
Title: Love Me Tenderly, Love Me Wildly
Released: April 28, 1979
Type: Movie
Yuichi prides himself on the fact that he is a family man but contrary to his conception of an ideal family life, at age 24, his wife has already run out on him. In utter confusion, he tries to reason out where he had gone amiss that such a thing should happen out of the clear blue sky. About this time, Yuichi helps Ayako, a young girl, embroiled in trouble. She returns Yuichi's kindness by making off with his precious camera. Then she returns and since his wife has washed her hands of him, he forces himself on Ayako who acts as if she had been waiting for him to enter her. Suddenly, Yuichi's wife returns...
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Vengeance Is Mine
Title: Vengeance Is Mine
Character: Chiyoko Hata
Released: April 21, 1979
Type: Movie
A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police.
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The Fall of Teenager
Title: The Fall of Teenager
Released: February 24, 1979
Type: Movie
High school student Keiko struggles with the pressures of college entrance examinations and a chaotic home life, ultimately succumbing to alcohol, marijuana, gang members and rape.
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The Woman with Red Hair
Title: The Woman with Red Hair
Character: Kozo's Sister
Released: February 17, 1979
Type: Movie
Junko Miyashita plays a mysterious hitchhiker picked up by a brute of a construction worker named Kenzo who takes her back to his run-down and cramped apartment in a not so good part of town. Claiming that she is running away from an abusive husband, she shacks up with him. In a futile attempt to escape the bleak working class surroundings, the pair engage in an obsessive erotic relationship.
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Joseito
Title: Joseito
Character: Namie Kawase
Released: January 20, 1979
Type: Movie
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At Noon
Title: At Noon
Character: Local woman
Released: December 29, 1978
Type: Movie
Tadao decides to comes back from Tokyo to live in his home town, in the countryside. He stays at his parents place and finds a job, repairing transistor and television. He catches up with his friend Tetsuji, the only that haven’t left yet. But one night, Tetsuji decides to leave for Tokyo with a bar hostess.
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The Killing Game
Title: The Killing Game
Released: December 2, 1978
Type: Movie
The second movie of Tôru Murakawa's "Game" trilogy. After making a sensational hit, a hitman has gone into hiding for five years. When he comes back he bumps into two women that he has spared five years ago. Two rival yakuza bosses hire Narumi to kill the other. Will Narumi's sense of chivalry entrap him again?
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Fighting Against The Incurable Disease Aplastic Anemia – Now You Are In The Light
Title: Fighting Against The Incurable Disease Aplastic Anemia – Now You Are In The Light
Released: October 28, 1978
Type: Movie
Film distributed by ATG.
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Female Teacher: Secret
Title: Female Teacher: Secret
Character: Yoriko
Released: October 21, 1978
Type: Movie
A male high school student becomes obsessed with his teacher and uses various schemes including exposing her philandering husband to have sex with her.
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Never Give Up
Title: Never Give Up
Character: Hiromi, Bar hostess
Released: October 7, 1978
Type: Movie
Special forces officer Ajisawa leaves his paramilitary group to take care of his newly-adopted daughter, Yoriko: the sole survival of a bloodbath for which he is responsible. Years later, Ajisawa is forced to return to the scene of the tragedy for his new job as a claims adjuster where he is subsequently arrested for his suspected involvement. But the threat of jail time is the least of his worries as his former organization comes gunning for him.
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Sometimes... Like a Prostitute
Title: Sometimes... Like a Prostitute
Character: Woman in 'Aimai Yado'
Released: September 23, 1978
Type: Movie
A man with a medical condition and a guilty past becomes obsessed with a simple minded girl he finds in a park. His wife is not thrilled when he brings her home.
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Horror of the Giant Vortex
Title: Horror of the Giant Vortex
Released: August 5, 1978
Type: Movie
Japanese horror move from 1978.
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Rape and Death of a Housewife
Title: Rape and Death of a Housewife
Released: July 8, 1978
Type: Movie
Three young boys drunkenly rape a woman named Emiko, the wife of a man they've developed a friendship with. She dies of heart failure during the attack. Her chicken farmer husband, incapable of dealing with her death tends to her corpse as though it were still alive completely unable to accept her demise.
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Junko's Bliss
Title: Junko's Bliss
Character: Yasuko Sakata
Released: March 4, 1978
Type: Movie
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Puppets Under Starry Skies
Title: Puppets Under Starry Skies
Character: Akemi's mother
Released: January 21, 1978
Type: Movie
A young Japanese man finds himself in the company of a strange, effeminate gay man and a girl with a seedy sexual history and who even now is pregnant again. They share a predisposition for drug use and spend time together in an old house. He refuses the advances of the gay man, who then commits suicide. When a gang administers a beating to him, his father re-enters the scene and takes him home, along with the girl. However, the girl has decided to have her baby, and she goes to live with its father.
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Apartment Wife: Violated Skin
Title: Apartment Wife: Violated Skin
Released: November 26, 1977
Type: Movie
A nightmare that suddenly attacks an ordinary housewife: rape. However, the real nightmare was the threat that began because the information was being wiretapped. And the housewife uses her own body as a weapon to confront her blackmailer, but...
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Female Teacher
Title: Female Teacher
Character: Akiko Egawa(江川明子)
Released: October 29, 1977
Type: Movie
A female teacher is raped by a gang of students in her school. The repercussions of this lead to scandal, blackmail and murder.
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Tomorrow Evening
Title: Tomorrow Evening
Released: October 29, 1977
Type: Movie
Ayako is a 7-year-old girl with a dark, tanned face and a somewhat mysterious expression on her face. She shows up at the elementary school and acts strangely, but the children don't know her name and just call her "that girl". There are two groups of children at the elementary school, and the conflict between the groups intensifies...
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Hirusagari no joji: susurinaki
Title: Hirusagari no joji: susurinaki
Character: Hatsuko Kirikawa
Released: October 15, 1977
Type: Movie
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Shinjuku Midare Machi: Ikumade Matte
Title: Shinjuku Midare Machi: Ikumade Matte
Released: September 17, 1977
Type: Movie
The story of a group of artistic people centred around a bar in Shinjuku.
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Yumeno Kyusaku's Girl Hell
Title: Yumeno Kyusaku's Girl Hell
Character: Torako
Released: August 20, 1977
Type: Movie
In a religious school for girls the pure love between two students is torn apart by social and moral corruption.
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Girl’s Pleasure: Man Hunting
Title: Girl’s Pleasure: Man Hunting
Character: Yoshie Mita
Released: May 21, 1977
Type: Movie
Two high school friends. One witnesses the breakup of her family after a brutal home invasion. The other loses her virginity to an African-American soldier. Together they make a vital discovery and exact violent revenge.
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Wet and Crying: Based On Aiko Nakayama's School of Widows
Title: Wet and Crying: Based On Aiko Nakayama's School of Widows
Released: May 21, 1977
Type: Movie
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Ah! That Pep Squad 3 -Tears of a Man-
Title: Ah! That Pep Squad 3 -Tears of a Man-
Released: March 19, 1977
Type: Movie
Cherry blossoms are in full bloom. It is time for college students to go on a drinking spree under the cherry tree - It's "Hanami" time! Two freshmen and a sophomore are ordered to stake out a spot for the entire pep squad. Plans are initiated from the night before; three of them have to pull an all-nighter. Once the night falls, the sky turns pitch black. Rival pep squad of the Roka College emerge from the darkness and an all-out turf war begins.
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Case of the Disjointed Murder
Title: Case of the Disjointed Murder
Character: Kisono Kamiyama
Released: March 14, 1977
Type: Movie
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...
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A Portrait of Shunkin
Title: A Portrait of Shunkin
Character: Geisha(芸妓)
Released: December 25, 1976
Type: Movie
Okoto is blind since childhood. Her young servant Sasuke is in love of her. One day Koto is badly scarred on her face. In order to preserve the memory of her once beautiful face, Sasuke takes away his own sight.
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Sachiko no sachi
Title: Sachiko no sachi
Character: Mizue
Released: December 25, 1976
Type: Movie
Based on the manga of the same name by Kazuo Kamimura.
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Tokyo Secret Hotel: Beast's Play
Title: Tokyo Secret Hotel: Beast's Play
Character: Teruyo
Released: October 20, 1976
Type: Movie
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Noboru Ando's Chronicle of Fugitive Days and Sex
Title: Noboru Ando's Chronicle of Fugitive Days and Sex
Character: Bar Madam
Released: October 1, 1976
Type: Movie
Ando on the run, stopping in to service all the women in his life, with a bit of the old ultra-violence.
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Blooming Early
Title: Blooming Early
Released: August 11, 1976
Type: Movie
A virginal vocational student who is curious about sex is educated by her more experienced classmate.
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I Am 18 Years Old: Secret Story of a Mistress
Title: I Am 18 Years Old: Secret Story of a Mistress
Character: Tsuyako Shiraishi
Released: May 29, 1976
Type: Movie
A sailor has an affair with a teenager mistakenly thinking she’s a prostitute.
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Title: Against The Grain
Character: Realtor
Released: February 28, 1976
Type: TV
Employees of a security company from different generations and backgrounds confront many difficult questions
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Outlaw Cop
Title: Outlaw Cop
Released: February 4, 1976
Type: Movie
A bad cop is engaged in a violent chase to catch a yakuza boss. In his absence his wife runs away with another man, who turns out to be the very same man that her husband is hunting. Once he discovers this, he loses his nerve and turns in his badge. But the chase turns into a personal vendetta where the ex-cop plans to wipe out the entire gang.
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Housewife's Experience: New Tenement Apartment
Title: Housewife's Experience: New Tenement Apartment
Character: Kikuko Kanie
Released: December 24, 1975
Type: Movie
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Newlywed Hell
Title: Newlywed Hell
Character: Naoe Yashiro
Released: December 6, 1975
Type: Movie
Yuki returns to her hometown after several years. She has been away ever since the tragic events surrounding her abusive older husband. While in town she barely escapes the sexual advances of an old friend and accidentally comes across a scene that repels and excites her. Through an open doorway she spies a woman bound with rope. Thus begins her descent into the world of submission and pleasure.
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300 Million Thief Immune to Charges Begins
Title: 300 Million Thief Immune to Charges Begins
Character: Midori Kusumi
Released: November 22, 1975
Type: Movie
In this retelling of an infamous unsolved heist, a couple tries to outlast the statute of limitations after successfully stealing 300 million yen.
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Preparation for the Festival
Title: Preparation for the Festival
Released: November 8, 1975
Type: Movie
Tateo, young and neurotic, wishes to leave the village his mother has raised him in.
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Great Edo: Secret Story of a Female Doctor in Trouble
Title: Great Edo: Secret Story of a Female Doctor in Trouble
Character: Osen
Released: October 18, 1975
Type: Movie
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The International Gang of Kobe
Title: The International Gang of Kobe
Character: Satoko
Released: October 14, 1975
Type: Movie
In 1947, in Kobe, Japan, a local street gang fights for their survival when its turf is overrun by United States occupation forces and international gangs.
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Company Buggers
Title: Company Buggers
Released: August 9, 1975
Type: Movie
Hiroshi, a small-time racketeer, makes a name for himself extorting vulnerable companies and their directors for financial gain.
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Housewife's Experience: Tenement Apartment 2
Title: Housewife's Experience: Tenement Apartment 2
Character: Kazue Takeishi
Released: July 23, 1975
Type: Movie
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Green Lovers
Title: Green Lovers
Released: June 21, 1975
Type: Movie
Pinku from 1975.
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Light of Africa
Title: Light of Africa
Character: Kumi
Released: June 21, 1975
Type: Movie
Two semi-slackers with an ultra-intimate friendship work, slack and drink in a freezing Hokkaido town.
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Pimp Heaven
Title: Pimp Heaven
Released: May 24, 1975
Type: Movie
Class-A Kyoto, a strip joint in Kyoto, is raided by the police. Shohei, a salesman who happens to be there, gets caught in the middle of it and is fired from his job. Having nowhere else to go, Shohei reluctantly becomes the manager of the place... The film is a comedy full of pathos about the connection between strippers called "special delivery" and the "pimps" who hang on to them.
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Housewife's Experience: Tenement
Title: Housewife's Experience: Tenement
Character: Tomiko Kuraoka
Released: April 26, 1975
Type: Movie
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Akasen Honmoku chabuya no onna
Title: Akasen Honmoku chabuya no onna
Character: Yôko
Released: January 25, 1975
Type: Movie
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
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Red Light District: Gonna Get Out
Title: Red Light District: Gonna Get Out
Character: Kofukuya's Madam
Released: September 21, 1974
Type: Movie
It's the evening before the day all brothels must be shut-down, according to the new law, in 1958. At the Kofukuya's (literally, the house that sells happiness), five prostitutes decide to celebrate the day. Eroticism, drama, and comedy mix as each hour a different event passes, in which all the women's stories come to the surface.
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Secret Chronicle: She Beast Market
Title: Secret Chronicle: She Beast Market
Character: Yuri
Released: September 11, 1974
Type: Movie
In an endless cycle a daughter born of a prostitute takes up her mother’s trade among the pimps, the working poor and dilapidated slums.
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My Way
Title: My Way
Character: Tamayo Nakano
Released: September 7, 1974
Type: Movie
Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband's dead body, fighting government bureaucracy and indifference all along the way.
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Highway Sex: Parking Lot Woman
Title: Highway Sex: Parking Lot Woman
Character: Masae Miyazaki
Released: July 6, 1974
Type: Movie
A young wife dabbles in casual prostitution to secretly help her older husband improve his business. But when she falls for one of her clients complications ensue.
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The Key
Title: The Key
Released: May 4, 1974
Type: Movie
A college professor wants to bring the joys of sex to his frigid wife. He convinces his son in law to sleep with her because the idea arouses him, while also making him insanely jealous. The professor keeps a journal of his fantasies in a locked cupboard and hopes that his wife will find the key and read it.
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The World of Geisha 2 – The Precocious Lad
Title: The World of Geisha 2 – The Precocious Lad
Character: Someya
Released: February 16, 1974
Type: Movie
Shotaro, a young man who was kidnapped as a baby by a prostitute, lives and entertains in a seaside brothel. He often has to spend the night in the same room with other geishas when a rich patron takes over his room to be entertained by his favorite mistress. There he learns more about sex than many adults. So his adventures begin with both women and men.
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Damp Bank Notes
Title: Damp Bank Notes
Character: Reiko Kitamura
Released: February 6, 1974
Type: Movie
The dull and disappointing life of an office lady is enlivened when she meets hot younger lover. But in order to keep him and feed his gambling obsession she resorts to crime.
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Apartment Wife: Afternoon Seduction
Title: Apartment Wife: Afternoon Seduction
Character: Tsuneko Mochizuki
Released: January 15, 1974
Type: Movie
A wife who suspects her husband of infidelity hires an investigator. But it turns out he has his own kinky secrets.
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Wet Lust: 21 Strippers
Title: Wet Lust: 21 Strippers
Character: Mayu(まゆ)
Released: January 3, 1974
Type: Movie
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
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Crazy Season
Title: Crazy Season
Character: Woman
Released: December 26, 1973
Type: Movie
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
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Trapped in Lust
Title: Trapped in Lust
Character: Mayuko
Released: December 15, 1973
Type: Movie
A hitman messes up an assassination and so becomes the next target of his organization.
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The World of Geisha
Title: The World of Geisha
Character: Hanae
Released: November 3, 1973
Type: Movie
The world is in turmoil with the October Revolution of 1917, riots over the inflationary price of rice, and the military expedition to Siberia in 1918. But Shinsuke, a brothel owner, spends his days in the arms of geishas, paying little heed to the events happening around him.
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Farewell to Rock'n Roll
Title: Farewell to Rock'n Roll
Released: September 25, 1973
Type: Movie
There is an ongoing war between two Girl Gangs, the Akabane 100 Club and the Ikebukuro Cavalry. Yukiko, the "Bankaku," or chief bodyguard of the Akabane, is released from reform school and sets about to finish an ongoing one-on-one grudge match with the Arab Falcon and the whole Cavalry gang. With a theme song by 1970s Japanese "Group Sounds" band Carol, and live performance. Rock and Sukeban unite for an extraordinary and cool piece of filmmaking.
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Sex-Crime Coast: Piranha School
Title: Sex-Crime Coast: Piranha School
Character: Tomiko
Released: August 15, 1973
Type: Movie
A gang of vicious thieves and rapists invades the isolated summer home of a wealthy but morally corrupt family.
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Men and War III: The Final Chapter
Title: Men and War III: The Final Chapter
Character: Hostess
Released: August 11, 1973
Type: Movie
Final part of epic drama about war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family through the Sino-Japanese War through the Soviet Union's sudden attack upon Japanese troops at the end of the war.
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Yakuza Justice: Erotic Code of Honor
Title: Yakuza Justice: Erotic Code of Honor
Character: Tae
Released: July 14, 1973
Type: Movie
Monk Seigen saves Misako the daughter of an area Yakuza boss from some tough guys. The two become a couple and find themselves being pursued by some criminals. Seigen plunges deeper into a life of crime and sin.
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Naked Rashomon
Title: Naked Rashomon
Character: Ayako Katsuragawa
Released: July 4, 1973
Type: Movie
An ambitious businessman knocks up his mistress with fraternal twins. He keeps the boy but sends his bodyguard to dispose of the mother and the girl. Years later…
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Woods Are Wet
Title: Woods Are Wet
Character: Waitress(ウェイトレス)
Released: May 23, 1973
Type: Movie
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.
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A Rainy Night Affair
Title: A Rainy Night Affair
Character: Yoko Natsuki
Released: May 23, 1973
Type: Movie
Pinku from 1973.
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The Love Potion
Title: The Love Potion
Character: Uraji
Released: April 25, 1973
Type: Movie
Nikkatsu Roman Porno, the second entry in the Maruhi Oo'oku Gaiden series. Recieving a mysterious foreign love potion, the Shogun's harem (or Oo'oku) becomes disordered; meanwhile a famous woman attempts to enter and seek revenge in the disguise of a male monk.
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The Hell-Fated Courtesan
Title: The Hell-Fated Courtesan
Character: Omatsu
Released: April 14, 1973
Type: Movie
The story of a courtesan that was once popular in Yoshiwara. She is good-looking, but for some reason, three of her customers died unnaturally, one after another. As a result, she is feared by potential customers, and no one cares for her...
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Apartment Wife: Scent of a Woman
Title: Apartment Wife: Scent of a Woman
Character: Namie
Released: April 14, 1973
Type: Movie
A female high school teacher suffers from amnesia after being attacked by several men. She is married and has a happy family life, but an incident from the past haunts her regardless of her memory loss.
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Lovers Are Wet
Title: Lovers Are Wet
Character: Yoshie(よしえ)
Released: March 24, 1973
Type: Movie
A young man named Katsu comes to a rural town by the sea, and begins to work as a movie reel carrier in a movie theater. Apparently this town is the hometown of Katsu, but no matter how many residents of the town ask, "Is it Katsu?" he just laughs. The wife of the cinema owner that has become involved with Katsu is interested in his past ...
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Afternoon Affair: Transformation
Title: Afternoon Affair: Transformation
Character: Mitsuko Anzato
Released: January 24, 1973
Type: Movie
A young boy’s dream of a woman is entrusted to the love of a flower. When that beautiful flower withers and the boy discovers the ugliness of women’s true nature, he vows revenge.
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Love and Death at Fuji Speedway
Title: Love and Death at Fuji Speedway
Released: December 27, 1972
Type: Movie
The movie was inspired by real life test driver Yukio Fukuzawa, who on 12 February 1969 lost control of his Toyota 7 at Fuji Speedway near Nakahinata, Japan and fatally smashed into a signpost. In the movie Kei Kiyama’s pop singer character meets Tôru Minegishi’s doomed racer when he happens along as she’s throwing her own records into the sea. From there things get even cheerier.
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Office Lady Diary: Affair of a She-Cat
Title: Office Lady Diary: Affair of a She-Cat
Character: Taeko, Shiro's wife
Released: December 16, 1972
Type: Movie
A diary of an office lady.
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Excitement Class: Love Techniques
Title: Excitement Class: Love Techniques
Character: Oharu-san
Released: November 8, 1972
Type: Movie
Tormented by his first sexual stirrings, the teenager Isao dreams every night of his gym teacher Ikuko. He finally opens her heart but she rejects his advances. Frustrated, Isao invents all sorts of stratagies to disgust Ikuko´s fiance, a professor of chemistry in the same school. As his plan fails, he plans a radical solution...and the results turns out to be...
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Ichijo's Wet Lust
Title: Ichijo's Wet Lust
Character: Policewoman
Released: October 7, 1972
Type: Movie
Ichijo Sayuri, once the legendary queen of Osaka strippers, has retired to run a sushi shop. She is awaiting her day in court after having been arrested for indecency at her farewell performance. While she was active, she was both the rival and the model for many young strippers. Harumi was one of them. Ichijo Sayuri was the real-life queen of Osaka strippers who was arrested on her final performance.
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Melancholy Flesh Business: Sensuous Zone
Title: Melancholy Flesh Business: Sensuous Zone
Character: Hatako
Released: September 6, 1972
Type: Movie
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
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Wet Lips
Title: Wet Lips
Character: Yoko(洋子)
Released: January 29, 1972
Type: Movie
Roman Porno from 1972.