Noble Lady Bound Vase (1977)

1977

A rich man buys a wife, whose father was in debt. Months later, the man’s sister comes to visit, and discovers that the wife is secretly in love with another man. A wealthy land-owner “buys” his wife in order to pay off her father’s debts. Of course, hubby is into rope-bondage and rough-sex, and wifey ain’t. Six months of marriage goes by and the husband’s overbearing sister comes for a visit (who it is alluded […]

Joy of the Married Woman (2008)

2008

Akiko is married for three years to a man whom her parents introduced to her. Everything seems normal on the surface but in fact, she is trembling every day in anxiety, hiding a secret she can’t even tell her husband: a memory of being gang-railed by a group of seniors in the past. She can not overcome the trauma it caused her, and it even makes her afraid of having sex with her own husband. […]

Tokyo Strangler (2006)

2006
June 1, 2020

Mr. Pink (Yutaka Ikejima) masterfully directs this suspenseful Pink-Film retelling of Alfred Hitchcock’s Frenzy. Danger lurks around every corner. A psychopathic serial killer is tying up, raping and murdering Tokyo’s sexy young women! Kathy is trying to divorce her husband, all the while conducting a hot affair with her divorce attorney, Sean. As she walks through the park one day, she witnesses the killer disposing of the dead body of his latest victim. The killer […]

Glorious Moment: A Woman’s Scroll (1972)

1972

Osono and Eisuke would like to get married but with her up to her neck in debt due to her late father’s illness and him trying to raise the funds to start a business, they can’t afford to do so. Osono agrees to work as a geisha and eventually is tricked into becoming a businessman’s mistress, all because she wants to help her lover. The businessman, in turn, is actually only interested in training her […]