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
Tomomi Segawa, Ai Kobayashi, Mami Ogawa. Take a forbidden peek into the world of young and eager nurses! Lovely Yukari's excitement over moving into Shirayuri General Hospital's female dorm is topped... 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
Mayumi Terashima, Jun Euno, Mari Kishida. A misanthropic dropout becomes obsessed with photographing a beautiful maiden named Seiko until he happens to spy on her while she's alone with one of her... more
Rei Akasaka, Jogenji Kurumi. A devoted employee working for a major corporation spends much of her time sleeping with the company's rivals as a manner of helping her boss land new clients. But when... more
Toshiro Mifune, Yuzo Kayama. The patients at a poor medical clinic and a sharp but overbearing doctor teach an enthusiastic young intern hard lessons about the true meaning of practicing medicine. In... more
Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Minoru Chiaki. In this feudal Japan-set adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, a vicious samurai warrior rises to power he cannot fully wield, and the curses of ancient... more
Machiko Kyo, Mitsuko Mito, Kinuyo Tanaka. Two peasants in war-torn 16th-century Japan abandon their families to seek their fortunes in the spoils of war. In attaining his goal, each man destroys his... more
Toshiro Mifune. His father's mysterious death on the job prompts a man to seek revenge against the powerful construction company that employed him. In Japanese with english subtitles. 1960/b&w/151... more
Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Kaneko. The renowned director, Akira Kurosawa, combines poetic imagery and complex flashbacks to tell the story of a man who vows to make his final days meaningful after he... 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
Nami Misaki, Ayako Ota, Waka Oda, Makato Mino. Lustful criminals hijack a schoolbus full of schoolgirls in this lurid Japanese erotic thriller. In Japanese with English subtitles. Directed by Koyu... 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
Giants and Toys is a sharp and snappy corporate satire that revolves around the ruthless machinations of a group of admen working in the confectionary industry. Its absurdist and acidly cynical take... more
Erina Miyai, Natsuko Yashiro, Toru Ibuki. An act of vengeance against the woman who is already married to her fiancée lands Ryoko behind bars. She shares a cell with a group of sexually frustrated... more
Akio Jissôji created a rich and diverse body of work during his five decades in Japan's film and television industries. For some, he is best-known for his science-fiction: the 1960s TV series... more
Finally released outside Japan for the very first time, these unique riffs on H.G. Wells' classic character (though undoubtedly also indebted to Universal's iconic film series) are two of the... more
Director Teruo Ishii (Blind Woman s Curse, Horrors of Malformed Men), the Godfather of J-sploitation, presents Yakuza Law (AKA Yakuza s Law: Lynching) a gruelling anthology of torture, spanning three... more