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Plot Summary:
A metaphysical mystery involving a university student's camera getting stolen, and the thief then committing suicide. Looking back upon the event, the situation comes to be questioned if it happened at all.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 776
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, weird
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How Far, How Near (1972)
Plot Summary:
A middle-aged man sets out on a symbolic journey through past, present, and future to learn why an old friend committed suicide, and learns much about his own life along the way.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 303
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: surreal
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A Story Written with Water (1965)
Plot Summary:
Struggling with his true emotions, dreams, memories of the past and the reality Shizuo is about to marry, but is torn between his wife-to-be and the love to his mother.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 408
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1969)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of a bookstore thief named Birdy, who is led through various adventures in Tokyo's Shinjuku district by salesgirl Umeko.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 817
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: experimental, avant garde, weird
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Love & Loathing & Lulu & Ayano (2010)
Plot Summary:
A timid young woman who lives with her domineering mother accepts an Adult Video scout's offer to "become somebody else" by performing in porn videos. As she rises in popularity, the boundaries between her two lives begin to disintegrate.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, atmospheric, captivating, erotic, anime
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Naked Pursuit (1969)
Plot Summary:
Caught up in the swirling tide of student protests and riots, a young man becomes the unintentional murderer of a policeman. Handcuffed and enroute to jail, he escapes from the authorities and comes across a young woman on the beach, who is intent on committing suicide. The two embark on a passionate and violent affair.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags:
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Woman of the Lake (1966)
Plot Summary:
A married woman lets her lover take naked pictures of her. The photos end up in possession of a man who starts blackmailing the couple.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 716
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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Diary of a Sinner (1974)
Plot Summary:
The revealing story of the shocking exploits of those who fulfill the most bizarre fantasies.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic, grindhouse
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Permissive (1970)
Plot Summary:
When Suzy arrives in London to visit an old school friend, she is unwittingly plunged into the ruthless world of the 'groupie'. Fuelled by sex, drugs and jealousy, her new lifestyle fosters in her a cold, cynical instinct for survival. But tragedy is never far away. With its effective blend of gritty location work, brooding flash-forward devices, and a soundtrack by cult acid folk and prog rock legends Comus, Forever More - who also star - and Titus Groan, Permissive is a dark British counter-cultural artefact that's shot through with grim authenticity. As a bonus, this release also includes Stanley Long's ultra-rare Bread, a film which, whilst exploring the same cultural milieu as Permissive (and featuring its own bona fide cult British rock band, Juicy Lucy), takes a somewhat more lighthearted approach to its subject.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: offbeat, independent film
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Slave Widow (1967)
Plot Summary:
After her husband's suicide, young and beautiful Mitsuko Fuji feels alone and helpless -- until one of her husband's major creditors, Mr. Kito, offers a sympathetic ear and a cancellation of all debts. However, Mitsuko soon learns that Kito's intentions are anything but pure, as she's forced to become his personal concubine. Her only, improbable hope for redemption lies with her one true admirer: Kito's very own son.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Gushing Prayer: A 15-Year-Old Prostitute (1971)
Plot Summary:
A young girl, already a jaded sexual veteran, embarks on an odyssey of self-discovery to find out the true reasons for her dissatisfaction and total desensitization.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: erotic, controversial, avant garde, weird
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Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets (1971)
Plot Summary:
Conditions have been better for the nameless protagonist: his grandmother is a shoplifter and his war criminal father and sister have an unhealthy, intimate relationship with the family rabbit.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: avant garde, experimental, offbeat, disturbing, erotic drama, art house, surreal, psychedelic, weird, cult film
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Mandara (1971)
Plot Summary:
About two student couples who become members of an obscure sect. The cult seeks a prehistoric utopia with free sex and without society's norms and values. The students are torn between ambient pressure and the sect leader's authority to organ music in the creative camera angles.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 498
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: independent film, weird
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The Ceremony (1971)
Plot Summary:
Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional family to trace the rise and fall of militaristic Japan across several decades.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: spiritual, avant garde, cult film
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Sophiiiie! (2002)
Plot Summary:
The film starts in the early evening of a normal day: Sophie, a 20 year old girl, is pregnant and wanders through the night to get sure about her future life. Does she want to be a mother or do an abortion? Does she love her friend or not? Who is the father of her unborn baby? Trying to figure out what to do Sophie encounters many people, and in the morning she has come to a decision. But this is not the movie's end.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 538
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film
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Sing a Song of Sex (1967)
Plot Summary:
Four sexually hungry high school students preparing for their university entrance exams meet up with an inebriated teacher singing bawdy drinking songs. This encounter sets them on a less than academic path.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 853
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: absurd, erotic, touching, serious, realistic, stylized, sexual, suspense, sexy, weird
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Secret Chronicle: She Beast Market (1974)
Plot Summary:
Noboru Tanaka returned to direct the third of Nikkatsu's pinku eiga melodramas examining prostitution in various Japanese cities. This one focuses on modern-day Osaka, and although it is still a softcore film, is the most outrageous of the lot. The casting is almost demented, with classical ballerina and staunch feminist Genshu Hanayagi smoking a cigarette with her privates, poet Sakumi Hagiwara blowing up some gangsters by suicidally detonating a gas-filled love doll, and similarly peculiar appearances from notorious druggie Meika Seri and genre icon Junko Miyashita. Highly recommended for pinku eiga aficionados, this one must be seen to be believed.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 378
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
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This Transient Life (1970)
Plot Summary:
Near a remote Buddhist monastery, a young man falls in love with his sister and gets her pregnant. After a monk finds out, the young man becomes an assistant to a master sculptor, only to proceed to complicate matters with his affairs.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: spiritual, erotic
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Japanese Summer: Double Suicide (1967)
Plot Summary:
A sex-obsessed young woman, a suicidal young man she meets on the street, a gun-crazy wannabe gangster—these are just three of the irrational, oddball anarchists trapped in an underground hideaway in Oshima’s devilish, absurdist portrait of what he deemed the “death drive” in Japanese youth culture.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 855
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: political, psychological, tense, atmospheric, offbeat, serious, realistic, surreal, stylized, allegory
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Violence at Noon (1966)
Plot Summary:
Hakuchu no Torima" is the portrayal of a violent rapist as seen through the recollections of his wife and one of his victims. As the film starts, Eisuke (Kei Sato) encounters Shino (Saeda Kawaguchi), who works as a maid in a house. She is a former coworker from a failed collective farm, whose life he once saved -- only to rape her. Soon, Eisuke's criminal pattern of rapes and murders emerges as he goes on assaulting women (Shino being the witness of one of them, as Eisuke tries to violate her employer). When cooperating with the police on making a description of the rapist, Shino withholds her crucial knowledge of his identity. She prefers writing letters to Eisuke's dutiful wife, Matsuko, a schoolteacher (Akiko Koyama -- Mrs Oshima), in order to expose his true nature and perhaps induce her into turning Eisuke over to the police.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, disturbing, detective, weird
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Pitong Dalagita (2006)
Plot Summary:
When six girls and a guy all teenagers are found with their wrists slit on a high school playground, it's left to their guidance counselor to try to make sense of the mystery behind the apparent suicide pact. Told in nonlinear fashion, the story uses a multitude of perspectives interconnected flashbacks from surviving students to illuminate the desires, fears and insecurities that led to the devastating act.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, psychological, suspense
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Emperor Tomato Ketchup (1971)
Plot Summary:
In a Japanese colony, children overthrow their parental guardians and attempt to form a new society. Their plan spirals out of control and they are soon lost in a web of sexual deviation and violence.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 761
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: experimental, disturbing, controversial, avant garde
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Gate of Flesh (1964)
Plot Summary:
After World War II, some Tokyo prostitutes band together with a strict code: no pimps, attack any street walker who comes into our territory, defend the abandoned building we call home, and punish whomever gives away sex (who falls in love). Maya, a young woman whose family has died, joins the group. Into the mix comes Shin, a thief who's killed a G.I. The women allow him to hide while recovering from wounds, but then he won't leave. Maya is drawn to him, discovering as she falls in love that she can feel again; she's now more fully human, but at the same time, she's endangered herself and her livelihood. Can she and Shin make it out of Tokyo to establish life as a couple?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, grindhouse, erotic drama, tense, rough, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic
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Side Job. (2017)
Plot Summary:
Based on the novel "Kanojo no Jinsei wa Machigai ja Nai" (literal translation: Her life is not at fault) by Director Hiroki, it is a powerful story of survivors, who are all trying to find their own silver linings in life.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating
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Action (1980)
Plot Summary:
Bruno is an idealistic hero who questions the meaning of life in this confusing and sometimes hallucinatory erotic drama. After a night in jail, he is gang-raped by punk rockers in a garbage dump. He later saves an old man who believes he is Garibaldi and a woman he believes is Ophelia. Bruno watches helplessly as she later jumps from a window.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 385
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, surreal, cult film
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Funeral Parade of Roses (1969)
Plot Summary:
A feverish collision of avant-garde aesthetics and grind-house shocks, Funeral Parade of Roses takes us on an electrifying journey into the nether-regions of the late-’60s Tokyo underworld. In Toshio Matsumoto’s controversial debut feature, seemingly nothing is taboo: neither the incorporation of visual flourishes straight from the worlds of contemporary graphic-design, painting, comic-books, and animation; nor the unflinching depiction of nudity, sex, drug-use, and public-toilets. But of all the “transgressions” here on display, perhaps one in particular stands out the most: the film’s groundbreaking and unapologetic portrayal of Japanese gay subculture.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: avant garde, disturbing, mind bending, surreal, psychedelic, social, sad, experimental, controversial, art house
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The Moon in the Gutter (1983)
Plot Summary:
A dockworker seeking revenge on the killer of his sister finds himself the object of desire for two women.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: neo noir, surreal, psychological, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, weird, eighties, french noir
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New Tokyo Decadence: The Slave (2007)
Plot Summary:
A secretary is introduced to the world of BDSM by her boss. She becomes his personal slave as they take a walk on the wild side of experimentations. This film is based on main actress Rinako Hirasawa’s personal experiences.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Woman with Pierced Nipples (1983)
Plot Summary:
A man and woman share in some bizarre and masochistic sex-games, including chain-bondage, shoe-licking, watersports, and car-antenna f!cking. There is a side-plot about a female slavery ring where the captors are imprisoned in cages to be used at the will of a group of private sex-club patrons.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic
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Boy (1969)
Plot Summary:
A family of four lives off of scams in which they pretend to be injured by automobiles. After suffering an injury during the war, the father believes he is an invalid. He and his wife have a 10-year-old boy and a 3-year-old girl. The adults pretend to be injured by autos in crowded traffic, blackmailing the fearful motorists with threats to call in the police.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: experimental, atmospheric, thought provoking, touching, serious, realistic, gloomy, cult film
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Double Suicide (1969)
Plot Summary:
Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the strict social and moral codes of 18th-century Japan. But when he meets the lovely courtesan Koharu, he becomes a man obsessed. Koharu returns his love, even foregoing other customers while Jihei schemes to somehow buy her freedom. His efforts yield ruinous consequences for his business and his family life, and Koharu is meanwhile purchased by another client.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: surreal, romantic, mind bending, psychedelic, spiritual, serious, emotional, realistic, stylized, jidai geki