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- After being raped in an unknown rooftop, seventeen year-old girl Poppo meets a mysterious boy, and both share their sexual traumas and fears, with fatal consequences.
- A police detective, after learning that a rapist he just arrested shares the same ancestral village as him, proceeds to narrate its dark history of rape, violence and vengeance.
- A revolutionary faction steals some hand bombs. While escaping, several soldiers are killed. The movement's highest authority deems October unfit and sends the leader of another faction to take the remaining bombs.
- "Eros Eterna" tells the story of a legendary immortal nun who wanders around encountering several people of various conditions.
- Inspired by an actual crime involving chloroform, this revolutionary film shows the everyday madness of a railroad employee.
- Study about a young disturbed man, who rapes and kills women and collects their bodies in a cave. A work based on the case of Yoshio Kodaira, a serial rape murder case shortly after the war.
- The story of a village woman given the grueling task of looking after (and fulfilling the sexual needs of) her quadruple amputee husband, a Japanese soldier in the Second Sino-Japanese War who has been decreed a "War God" by the Emperor.
- A man keeps a young employee tied up in his small apartment and tortures her. She is undressed, subjected to various types of bondage, whipped, and tortured with a razor blade.
- A bunch of violent hippies kidnap and humiliate a young romantic couple, while a nearby yakuza gang observes the situation.
- A young man breaks into a nurse's rooming house and one-by-one kills off nurses.
- Japan, 1960. In a housing complex, a young introverted student observes his neighbors through a telescope. The voyeurism of a young man isolated and gloomy, will cause an explosion of madness.
- The film outlines Japanese students movements in the 60s, then shows the formation of the Japanese United Red Army, a communist armed resistance group.
- A Kabuki-Cho gigolo with a gambling debt Mikio Osawa agrees to bump off a rich wife's husband for a bundle of cash, but botches the hit. On the run in the snow-covered hills of northern Japan, he holes up in a shuttered, deserted house. But the house is not empty: a timid, traumatized girl Mika Ito lives there, in the thrall of a sick, hot-tempered trucker Shiro Sano who has kept her there since she was a tiny girl.
- During violent manifestations in late 1960s in Japan, a group of students who called themselves the Rose Colored Regiment hide in the house of a mysterious young man, and have sex with the same girl while waiting for new instructions.
- It was a milestone of film as activism, cinema as movement in Japan's context. Adachi and Wakamatsu went to Beirut on the way back from the Cannes Film Festival. There, in collaboration with the Red Army members and PFLP, they produced this newsreel film depicting the everyday activities of Arab guerrillas as a cinematic narrative on the world revolution.
- A young brother and sister live an ostracized life in rural 20th century Japan. Their family had been cast out from the village because their parents suffered from tuberculosis. And the rest of the townsfolk believed that tuberculosis was a genetic disease which gave the town a bad reputation. One day the town "leader" convinces the rest of the peasants to kill the two brothers in order to acquire their land and share it among them. The two brothers are attacked and the boy is tortured and left for dead, while the sister is raped by all the men in the village. As a result from the trauma, she loses her sanity. The boy survives the tortures and the beatings and decides to take revenge, killing all the adult inhabitants from the village. During the killings the viewer gets to realize that most of the town's inhabitants are corrupt and filled with vices, while they hypocritically spent many years accusing the two brothers of committing the acts of sin and debauchery they themselves practiced. Later the sister, in an act of desperation, commits suicide. Which further damages her brother's sanity and his decision to punish all the townsfolk and finally retire from the society which unjustly punished and hurt the two youngsters.
- A man leaves his family in Tokyo to travel and engage in various sexual escapades. When he returns home he finds out that his wife is starring in Imamura's documentary about her search for her missing husband.
- In 1970, famed Japanese writer Yukio Mishima commits suicide after leading a failed coup.
- On the actual barricades of Adachi's very own Nihon University during the period of social struggle, a free-love session taking the form of a 'play' rape is being enacted by a group of aimless, listless and political apathetic students
- During clashes between demonstrators and police that rage on the streets of Tokyo, a young man hides in the house of his brother - a police officer. The latter is accidentally shot by his wife, which forces the young man to flee with her.
- A woman named "Kayo" (Michiko Tsukasa) is forced into leaving her home in order to escape the wrath of a mob boss. Seven years later, she is forced to revisit these painful memories when her boyfriend returns.
- In the wake of Yukio Mishima's suicide, two suicidal couples are about to face their memories and frustrations, before they strive to heal their scars for good, by hook or by crook.
- A young office lady is lured into the world of adult films by her boss.
- A suicidal woman and a disillusioned political couple meet on a beach
- In this bizarre world of distorted human pleasures, we have come to accept the most heinous crimes against mankind as just another example of the degeneration of our species. Even the most jaded individual could not forgive the creators of the Love Robots. Love Robots are beautiful young girls, abducted right off the street who, through a procedure that rivals anything the Marquis de Sade might have dreamt of, are turned into monsters, capable of killing a man or loving him on command. The Love Robots then become an item for sale, willing to accept any master and perform any act. The Love Robots must surely be the lowest ebb of slave trading. Now through the bold new techniques of an eroduction this sordid practice is brought to light in a manner that, until very recently, could not have been shown. Only now can the intimate eye of the camera reveal the lust, greed and abnormal practices in such shocking detail. Only now can no one fail to realize the consequences of the tragic transformation of these girls to the sensual, sadistic Love Robots.
- A high school student preparing for his university entrance exams is discontent with various social inequities and is determined to take vengeance on all adults.
- There has been a murder. A man is found dead in the house of a prostitute who is arrested as a suspect. But she tells of her life as a peasant, blown up and sold to a brothel by her uncle and how she gains position until she meets the dead man.
- A yakuza flees from his boss with a young waitress and is tricked into returning to the fold. For his efforts, he is tortured and beaten, and she is raped and discarded like trash. Five years later, a similar scenario presents itself only this time, the ex- yakuza has learned from his mistake.
- Three high school girls about to take their final exam, secretly plan to ruin the diploma ceremony in order to avenge themselves of that school which treated them as delinquents.
- From an apartment belonging to a single woman, two detectives spy on sex-obsessed radical.
- Spring, 1969. The Japanese New Wave, represented on international screens mainly by the films of Nagisa Oshima, reaches new heights. 21-year-old Megumi Yoshizumi goes to Wakamatsu Production. The company makes films popular with young people. Pink film director Koji Wakamatsu gathers there with young talented people who are all fascinated with movie making. When they are not making movies, they spend their time smoking, drinking alcohol, scouting for actresses and looking for material for their next film. When filming begins, everybody immerses themselves into the production and will do everything on the filming set from running, shouting to acting.
- A curse on the lives of a noble but unholy family including a womanizer and a yakuza in Shingu, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, a remote community, casts its shadow over several generations.
- A man comes to Tokyo searching for his son's killer. He ventures into the deep underground of the city where he finds out that the untraceable killer is a mysterious revolutionary gang leader called Shinjuku Mad.
- A Japanese teenager bicycles aimlessly through the countryside after killing his mother.
- A middle-aged man discovers an injured refugee woman trembling in the corner of his bar in Kabukicho. He quickly becomes aware that her life is in his hands when he learns she is hiding from the yakuza.
- A female teacher falls in love with her student.
- After the death of her mother a young woman wants to meet her real father.
- Following a stint in reform school, Ryu returns to his home, the Minami area of Osaka, accompanied by his friend Ko. He's greeted by his friends, Chabo and Ken. They seek to forge their own path through a multitude of rival gangs.
- The insane gynecologist Dr. Marukido Sadao theorizes that a woman is unable to become pregnant if she is writhing in intense pain during intercourse. He sets about testing this new method of birth control by torturing women during sex.
- A hitman focuses on his job hoping to retire quickly and richly. But the betrayal of his clan and those he loves endangers his plan.
- A press photographer returns to Japan from the war in Vietnam after losing his friend and fellow photographer on the battlefield.