This Transient Life (1970)

1970
May 11, 2020

Set around a remote Buddhist monastery, it features Masao, a young son of a rich merchant who doesn’t want to follow his father into business or go to college, preferring to study under a famous Master how to make Kannon statues of the Goddess of Mercy. At the same time, his sister Yuri is struggling to find a potential husband, only for it to explode when their horseplay in masks one day leads to an […]

Killing Me Softly

Killing Me Softly (2002)

2002

London website designer Alice was happy in a stable relationship with reliable, somewhat boring Jake, but quickly dumps him after falling in love at first sight and having wild sex with an overbearing hot hunk, even before she discovers it’s the famous mountaineer Adam Tallis, a studly celebrity about whom a book is just being promoted. In no time they get married, despite anonymous warnings not to trust him. In Adam’s presence she enjoys being […]

Red Diaries (2001)

2001

The first episode is about an old and disabled rich man’s mistress who is engaged in an extra-curricular activity with his driver. The second story is about a homecoming maiden who crosses paths with a naive teenaged seminarian whose recurrent wet dreams have her as the central object. The third and the most controversial is about the martyr wife of an abusive police officer who lets his colleagues gang-rape her when he finds out that […]

Lady Chatterley

Lady Chatterley (2006)

2006

Sir Clifford has returned from the Great War to his estate near Sheffield, paralyzed from the waist down. Lady Constance, his young wife, cares for him, but she’s lifeless, enervated. Her physician prescribes the open air, and she finds a quiet retreat at the hut – the workplace – of Parkin, the estate’s gamekeeper. The rhythms of nature awaken Connie – daffodils, pheasant chicks – and soon she and Parkin become lovers. She’s now radiant. […]

Lady Chatterley in Tokyo (1977)

1977
May 10, 2020

Mio is a young woman whose husband is a millionaire’s son. When he becomes impotent following an automobile accident, she begins an affair with their gardener and chauffeur, Nitta. After her husband discovers Mio’s infidelity, he forces her to leave. A Japanese version of the D.H. Lawrence novel. After causing a car accident in which her husband was crippled, a young woman spends her days torn between guilt for what she’s done, and frustration over […]