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 […]

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 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 […]

Lady Chatterley's Lover

Lady Chatterley’s Lover (2015)

2015

In 1913 Connie Reid marries wealthy Nottingham colliery owner Sir Clifford Chatterley but he returns from the Great War disabled and in a wheelchair. Connie is loyal but begins to feel alienated as he engages a nurse, Mrs Bolton, to bathe him and excludes her from pit business. Despite his desire for an heir his impotency results in a lack of sexual activity and Connie is drawn to handsome Oliver Mellors, the plain-spoken former miner […]

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 (TV Mini-Series) (1993)

1993

Lady Constance Chatterley is married to the handicapped Sir Clifford Chatterley, who was wounded in the First World War. When they move to his family’s estate, Constance (Connie) meets their tough-yet-quiet groundskeeper, Oliver Mellors. Soon, she discovers that the source of her unhappiness is from not being fulfilled in love, and in turning to the arms of Mellors, she has a sexual awakening that will change her thoughts forever.