The House of Pleasure (1994)

1994

Lord Gregory Hutton takes his beautiful young wife Eleanore on a business trip to the Far East for their honeymoon. They stay at the house of Lin, a young local owner of a silk farm and fashion factory whose father only recently died. Lady Eleanor finds herself attracted to Lin and soon is tempted by his advances. But it is not all as it seems. Lord Gregory seems more and more indifferent, and Lady Eleanor […]

Flower & Snake II (2005)

2005

Tooyama, an aging impotent art critic, sends his much-younger wife, Shizuko, to Paris to evaluate the work of Ikegami, an artist he sponsors. She discovers she’s curious about sado-masochism, and soon she becomes Ikegami’s object of bondage as well as his muse. Encounters with Ikegami lead her into a shadowy world of wealthy patrons of ropes, humiliation, and slavery. Ikegami discovers his protective side, and Tooyama reenters the picture. Once Shizuko can reestablish control over […]

Victim of Desire (1995)

1995

An SEC agent investigating $70M in missing funds and a murdered businessman gets involved with the man’s wife. Investigator Pete Starky is hot on the trail of $70 million in embezzled cash. The trail leads to Leeland Duvall, a wealthy white collar killer. But when Duvall dies in a mysterious car accident, the victim’s sexy wife, Carla, becomes the prime suspect. Just as Starky becomes romantically involved with Carla, evidence points to him as her […]

Odd Obsession (1959) aka Kagi

1959

A middle-aged husband of a younger woman finds her youth intimidating to the point that he cannot become aroused. His solution involves the introduction of his daughter’s lover to his wife. An aging antique specialist in Kyoto, Japan is losing virility but finds himself excited when he deliberately makes his daughter’s boyfriend attracted to his younger beautiful wife. Things begin to spiral as his health declines and the plotted becomes the plotting.

The Key (1997) aka Kagi

1997

Ikuko is a mature, reserved Kyoto woman married for many years to a respectable, now-middle-aged man. The only problem in their relationship has been that her husband is dissatisfied with her lack of passion during lovemaking. All these changes after they meet the young Mr. Kimura. After the three spend the evening drinking together and Kimura has gone home, Ikuko’s husband discovers that his wife, in her alcohol-induced haze, has become far more passionate than […]