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.

Belly Dance (2007)

2007

A wife meets a man with whom she falls passionately in love. And he reciprocates. But her chosen one, the artist Khasa, comes from Turkmenistan and is a Muslim. And the relationship between two lovers, already adults, causes misunderstanding and even rejection among others.