Thrilled to Death (1988)

1988

A mystery writer and his wife are terrorized by a swinger couple. Cliff, a marginally successful writer of a paperback detective series, has found the perfect setting for murder. He is using an adult club for swingers as a backdrop for his questionable characters to commit their lurid crimes. While reluctantly researching the seedy swing scene, he and his cosmopolitan wife Elaine meet Daryll and Nancy; an outgoing, unusually charming couple. They unwittingly become caught […]

It Had to Be You (2000)

2000

Two strangers meet and fall in love during the weekend that they are planning their respective weddings. Charlie Hudson, a retired crisis negotiator for the NYPD, is engaged to Claire Parker, a beautiful and successful businesswoman. Claire has planned a weekend in New York registering at Bergdorf Goodman, staying at The Plaza Hotel, etc., laying the foreground for the ensuing wedding. Due to an unexpected business opportunity, Claire is called away. Anna Penn, a school […]

Wildfire (1988)

1988

Since they met the first time in boarding school as little kids, it was obvious that the orphans Kay and Dave would become a couple. But at sixteen, Dave foolishly attempted to rob a bank with a water pistol, and ended up in jail for eight years. Meanwhile Kay was sent to foster parents, where she met the successful business man Mike, whom she married and bore two kids. Now Frank is released from prison […]

Tokyo Train Girls 4: Young Wife’s Desires (2006)

2006

Akiko is the heiress of a lumber business family that spans many generations. She married Hiroshi, a company man, and was leading a plain and happy life. But dark clouds overcast Akiko’s happy life when Hiroshi starts an affair with Michiyo, an underclassman from the school Akiko attended. Then Shinji, who used to work in the family lumber business, enters her life. The turmoil of men-women relationships becomes tempestuous.

Love to Kill (1993)

1993

A woman looks to a cop for help against her abusive husband, who constantly rapes, beats, and belittles her and her son, but the husband catches wind of the cop’s plan. The battered wife of a psychotic man escapes his clutches, but he’s hell-bent on tracking her down. A policeman steps in to try to help, but in the end it’s up to the unhappy psycho couple to duke it out. Elizabeth Lee plays the […]

Coquettish Wife (2009)

2009

Several years after the opening of the country in the Meiji Period, the Westernization has also come to a remote town where Gonzo, a clog maker, and his wife, Osei, live. While shoes take over from clogs, Gonzo hasn’t been able to make money from his business and owes Zenzo, who controls the town. Taking advantage of it, Zenzo tries to sleep with Osei, to much resentment. Tired of their poor life and Zenzo, Osei […]