The Woman with Red Hair (1979)

1979

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.

Secret Book: Sleeve and Sleeve (1974)

1974
February 10, 2023

Writer and ladies-man Yonosuke, who gives inept English lessons (using Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet), is ushered into a lonely woman’s house one rainy night. Her husband is at the front in the war with Russia and, as our hero will soon discover, she’s wearing a chastity belt…

Love Hunter (1972)

1972

Twenty-year-old Kazuo is in love with his college girlfriend, Hisako, but he can’t help but be intrigued by a mysterious older woman named Kyoku, a promiscuous woman who later gets married to her rich cousin but is unsatisfied with it. As time goes on, both Kazuo and Hisako are pulled into the seemingly rules-free, borderless world of Kyoku – with all of its many pains and pleasures.

Rope Cosmetology (1978)

1978
December 18, 2022

Kanako meets a BDSM artist, who teaches women an extreme form of erotic submission – how to act like a dog. It’s rough and he even brings a real dog for her, but she goes with it. This improves her and her geeky husband’s marriage.

From Orion’s Testimony: Formula for Murder (1978) aka An Unforgettable Affair

1978

Toshihiko, a high school boy, hates Kozo, his father, enough to kill him. His mother had lived in terror of him and, at last, broken in spirit, she had left and her pitiful departing figure is still seared in Toshihiko’s mind. Soon, Kozo marries Asako who is young and beautiful. An idea forms in Toshihiko’s mind to get even with his father for the shabby way he had treated his mother. He wonders if he […]