When he falls for the beautiful wife of the jailed boss of the Nishida gang, things start to spiral out of control for detective Kuroiwa (Tetsuya Watari, Graveyard of Honour). In a world where the... more
Etsuko Hara, Asami Ogawa, Hiroshi Unayama. A young nursing student gets a bit sidetracked when she strikes up an affair with a doctor. But when she moves from her dorm into an apartment to try and... more
Rei Okamoto, Naomi Tani. An evil judge in Japan during WWII uses his power to lock up the innocent for his own nefarious pleasures in this highly controversial film. In Japanese with English... more
From the director of SEX AND FURY and SCHOOL OF THE HOLY BEAST comes the controversial and horrifying masterpiece, STAR OF DAVID: BEAUTIFUL GIRL HUNTER! Tatsuya (Shun Domon) is a young man hiding a... more
Impulse Pictures is proud to present THE NIKKATSU EROTIC FILMS COLLECTION, a continuing series of critically acclaimed classic "eroductions" designed to shock and titillate fans of Japanese erotic... more
Hitomi Kozue returns as Mayumi in this final chapter of the TRUE STORY OF A WOMAN IN JAIL trilogy! Mayumi is sent to jail after brutally attacking her partner and his mistress. Sent to live in Cell... more
A violent killer is preying on women and dumping their bodies in an abandoned building. Tomoko (Erina Miyai) cheats on her lover with another man and thinks the killer saw their romantic tryst. She... more
Minako Mizushima, Yuko Asuka, Noriaki Abe. A tabloid reporter investigates the sordid life of an up-and-coming singer, who he suspects is drugged up by her record company 24/7. Directed by Katsuhiko... more
Hitomi Kozue, Mihoko Arikawa, Kumi Natsuki. When a hardened Mayumi returns from her stay in solitary confinement, she reenters the scene of bath house attacks, lesbian sex, rapist guards and more. In... more
Asami Ogawa, Murakuni Shohei. A beautiful, young athlete becomes targeted to lose her virginity to a playboy transfer student with a dark past. Meanwhile, a fellow classmate wants her for himself in... more
How to describe Nobuhiko Obayashis indescribable 1977 movie HOUSE (Hausu)? As a psychedelic ghost tale? a stream of consciousness bedtime story? An episode of Scooby-Doo as directed by Mario Bava?... more
Sent to prison for a "bad shooting," maverick female cop Agent Zero (Miki Sugimoto) is offered a deal for a full pardon if she agrees to recover a rich industrialist's daughter and terminate the... more
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The film begins with Miho and Ryuzo, two adulterous lovers, being hunted down by Miho's husband. Ryuzo is killed while the pregnant Miho is bludgeoned and left for dead. As she dies, she gives birth... more
Features: Subtitled, Widescreen, Anamorphic, Digital Theater System
A trio of young scientists from the city head out into the countryside to investigate a source of uranium at the base of a sacred mountain. On their way, they carelessly destroy a roadside shrine and... more
Tatsuya Fuji, Eiko Matsuda. A controversial piece of Japanese cinema originally banned in the States for its graphic sex scenes and still banned in Japan, this Nagisa Oshima-directed erotica classic... more
How to describe Nobuhiko Obayashis indescribable 1977 movie HOUSE (Hausu)? As a psychedelic ghost tale? a stream of consciousness bedtime story? An episode of Scooby-Doo as directed by Mario Bava?... more
A HAUNTED TURKISH BATHHOUSE features Nikkatsu star Naomi Tani as an abused wife sold to a brothel to cover her husband's debts. The deceitful husband is actually behind it all, in cahoots with the... more
A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu (MISHIMA's Ken Ogata) is on the run from the police. Director Shohei Imamura (THE PORNOGRAPHERS) turns this fact-based story-about the... more
Starring the iconic and beautiful Meiko Kaji (Lady Snowblood, Stray Cat Rock) in a role that came to define her career, the four-film Female Prisoner Scorpion series charts the vengeance of Nami... more
By turns tragic and transcendent, Akira Kurosawa's Dodes'ka-den follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their... more
In the early 1970s, Kinji Fukasaku's five-film Battles Without Honor and Humanity series was a massive hit in Japan, and kicked off a boom in realistic, modern yakuza films based on true stories.... more
Based on Oniroku Dan's famous Japanese novel, FLOWER AND SNAKE is the first Nikkatsu erotic film to deal with the subject of sadomasochism. Makoto (Yasuhiko Ishizu) is a sexually suppressed man... more
Japanese cinema cult action heroine Meiko Kaji made her initial rep with this series of troubled-youth exploitationers from the Nikkatsu studio. A lady biker (Akiko Wada) and her crew square off with... more
Hitomi Kozue. The Japanese take the lesbians-in-prison genre to an extreme with this violent and graphically erotic flick about a wrongfully accused, yet street-smart, woman who claws her way out of... more
Yuki Nohira, Miyako Yamaguchi, Yuko Akane. Thrown out by her husband after being violated by ruffians, a lost and suicidal Miki is taken in by a flock of nuns led by Sister Maria. But these nuns are... more